KIWI MUSIC

BRAINSTORM NEW ZEALAND BANDS

Assembly Required Prince Tuiteka Howard Morrison The Warratahs

The Crocodiles Pseudo Echo Albi and the Wolves 7 World Collide

The Staightjackets Fits Che Fu The Feelers The Chills Blam Blam Blam

Flight of the Concords SuperGroove LAB Split Enz Fat Freddies Six60

Elemeno P The Headless Chickens Shapeshifter Hello Sailor

Stereogram The Builders Kora Katchafire Crowded House OMC

The Clean The Swingers The Muttonbirds The Verlaines Opshop

The Front Lawn Shihad Girl Scout Cookie Alien Weaponry The Dudes

The Finn Brothers Dave Dobbyn Netherworld Dancing Toys The Black Seeds

Adease The Tall Dwarfs Act Our Age The Herbs The Exponents

When the Cats Away The Enemy Otautahi Allstars Salmonella Dub

DD Smash Bic Runga Stella Satellite Spies Bailter Space Snapper

The Straw People Dam Native King Kapisi Scribe The Bats

Moana and the Moa Hunters The Jean-Paul Satre Experience Concord Dawn

The Breaks Co-operative Fly My Prettys Trinity Roots House Of Shem

Whirimako Black Fur Patrol P-Money Nesian Mystik Look Blue Go Purple One Waka

Merchants of Flow Bressa Creeting Cake The Subliminals Sneaky Feelings

IMAGES FROM NEW ZEALAND HISTORY

Look at the images below. What do you think is going on? Where is it? Who are the people involved? What are the issues? Images can be strong sources for creative inspiration. A great exercise is to pick one and write a short story, a song or a poem based on what you think the image is about. 

Carry out research on one of these events (independently or as part of a group) and share it with the class.

New Zealand historical timeline

Traders and Explorers

c.AD 800–900 

The first Polynesians arrive in New Zealand (some scientists believe this occurred later).

1642 

Abel Tasman is the first European to sight the country.

1769 

Captain James Cook is the first European to explore, and set foot in, New Zealand.

1790s 

European seal hunters and whalers move into the region.

1809

First European settlers arrive in Russell.

1817 

Anglican Mission established at Bay of Islands.

1818 

The Maori “Musket Wars” begin; 12 years of inter-tribal conflict kills 20,000 people.

Colonisation

1830s 

Early European settlements grow in size; beginnings of trade with New South Wales.

1840 

Maori chiefs sign the Treaty of Waitangi. Auckland becomes the capital. New Zealand Company colonists reach Wellington and establish settlements. 

1845 

Hone Heke cuts down the flagstaff at Kororareka (Russell); 1,000 Maori take arms against the British.

1848–50 

Otago and Canterbury are settled.

1852 

Taranaki colonisation begins.

1856 

New Zealand becomes a self-governing British colony. Gold rush and land struggles.

1860–72 

Maori Land Wars (New Zealand Wars); vast tracts of land are confiscated.

1861 

Otago gold rush begins.

1865 

Wellington becomes New Zealand’s capital.

1866 

Cook Strait submarine telegraph cable is laid.

1867 

Maori are given the vote.

1868 

Raids by Titokowaru and Te Kooti throw country into crisis.

1869 

Te Kooti is defeated. Otago University is established.

1870 

First rugby match is played in New Zealand.

1877 

Treaty of Waitangi ruled null by Chief Justice Prendergast. Free compulsory education introduced.

1882 

The first refrigerated agricultural produce cargo is dispatched to England.

1886 

Mount Tarawera erupts.

Social Reforms and World Wars

1893 

Women are given the vote, 25 years before Britain and the US.

1896 

Maori population drops to 42,000 (from 100,000 in 1769).

1898 

World’s first old-age pension for men is introduced. 

1899–1902 

New Zealand troops fight in Boer War.

1907 

New Zealand is elevated from a colony to a dominion.

1908 

Ernest Rutherford awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Population exceeds 1 million.

1915 

New Zealand suffers heavy losses in Gallipoli campaign of World War I.

1918–19 

Influenza kills 6,700.

1938 

Health care and social security are introduced.

1939 

World War II breaks out. New Zealand suffers heavy losses.

An Independent Nation

1947 

New Zealand becomes fully independent.

1951 

ANZUS defence alliance with Australia and the US is signed.

1953 

New Zealander Edmund Hillary becomes the first person to climb Mount Everest.

1958 

Hillary reaches the South Pole.

1962 

Maurice Wilkins shares Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for discovery of DNA.

1965 

New Zealand troops are sent to Vietnam.

1971 

New Zealand joins South Pacific Forum. 

1975 

Parliament passes the Treaty of Waitangi Act, establishing a tribunal to investigate claims.

1981 

Anti-apartheid protests during South African rugby team tour creates civil unrest.

1985 

Greenpeace protest vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed in Auckland. Government bans visits by ships carrying nuclear weapons.

1987 

Maori becomes an official language by law.

1993 

Proportional representation election system, Mixed Member Proportional, introduced.

1995 

New Zealand wins the prestigious America’s Cup.

1997 

The National Party’s Jenny Shipley becomes New Zealand’s first woman prime minister.

1999 

Labour Party leader Helen Clark elected prime minister.

2005 

Civil Union Act passed.

2008 

John Key’s National Party voted into power following Helen Clark’s nine-year reign.

2010

Christchurch is hit by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. New Zealand signs “Wellington” Treaty with the US. Pike River Mine disaster kills 29 miners on the West Coast.

2011

New Zealand is placed in a National State of Emergency as a magnitdude 6.3 earthquake devastates Christchurch; 172 lives are lost, the CBD and numerous historic buildings are destroyed.

2012

The nation works to rebuild Christchurch city. The Tuhoe tribe reaches a historic Treaty agreement with the Crown over governance of Te Urewera National Park.

2013

The first census since 2006 is held (it was postponed in 2011 due to the Christchurch earthquakes).