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Story: The New Zealanders

‘New Zealand for New Zealanders’

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‘New Zealand for New Zealanders’

In this 1899 cartoon from the local journal Critic, New Zealand, personified by a rather superior character Young Moaland, turns his back on his Aussie mates.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Critic, 9 September 1899, p. 13.

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – Maorilanders, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/1929/new-zealand-for-new-zealanders (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.