Oh Jesus no – now we are woking the NZ anthem?
Oh Jesus no – now we are woking the NZ anthem?
Time to change the national anthem? PM weighs in
As the anniversary of the March 15 terror attacks in Christchurch approaches, there has been a call to change the way we sing the national anthem, God Defend New Zealand. And the Prime Minister has acknowledged that many people may back that call.
Hobsonville woman Fiona Downes wrote to Jacinda Ardern last year saying the anthem has outdated language.
“I feel the language in the first English verse is arcane,” she wrote, “and that words like ‘triple star’, ‘shafts of war’ and ‘entreat’ are meaningless to many migrants with limited English, as well as most NZers under the age of 30.”
Dear Jacinda, run a bloody mile from this now before the National Party start claiming it’s Government policy.
Honestly, I think some SJWs just wake up asking themselves, ‘how can I alienate more voters today’.
The arguments given that immigrants and people under 30 are ignorant of the language is a reflection on the ignorance of those groups, not a justification for changing the bloody anthem!
Here’s my shot at woking the anthem..
Multiple Gods of borderless Nations, on equal footing
In the consensual bonds of polyamorous love we meet
Sign language our voices, we politely ask
Multiple Gods defend our multi-ethnic land
Guard Matariki’s 7 stars,
From hate speech and micro aggressions,
Make trans inclusive feminism heard afar
Multiple Gods defend our multi-ethnic land
…the planet is melting and we are virtue signalling for a change of Anthem?
You can’t write satire more surreal than this.
Seriously though there are two anthems of NZ, the official one and the unofficial one.
The Official Anthem of NZ is System Virtue by Emma Paki…
…and the unofficial one which is ‘Better Man’ by Pearl Jam…
We can’t all afford violins to play while watching our lives and culture and world burn. Have a heart. A lot of people can’t bear to ease off the band-aids over the sores to the body corporeal or corporate etc. It gives an alternative to actual clear thought, to worry about spelling mistakes, or having the wrong speech marks on letters, or rather inappropriate words. This reminds me of the Hologram guy in Red Dwarf. Rimmer didn’t want to become a Space Pilot but couldn’t confront his mother about it, so he managed to fail the exam 13 times, usually by designing a cunning revision plan so intricately worked that when finished he only had two days left. He would then stay awake for the two days, and fall asleep over his exam.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mqbKs1PoI
It was Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawk that changed Australia’s National Anthem to the words “let us all rejoice” because he though it was the correct thing to do to begin the constitutional reforms that brought the first people of Australia into it constitutional scaffolding. And each subsequent Australain Labour Prime Minister has done something big and bold in place of a Treaty to make strong that scaffolding. Paul Keating gave land back, Kevin Rudd appolgised, Julia Gillards royalties for regions (10% royalty on all mining profits to aboriginal trusts).
Because Iwi Māori has all but settled with the crown both Māori and the crown must honour The Treaty. The treaty has opened up the world of commerce and science to Māori and for that New Zealand must remain open for business to the world. In return for these constitutional protections Māori have to give up its dialects so that a homogeneous Māori culture can be promoted to the world when ever The All Blacks do the haka or sings both English and Māori versions of the anthem with gusto the treaty is being honoured.
What were the words “Let us all rejoice”, changed from?
Australia’s sons let us rejoice
Trouble is, Martyn, your anthem is in the language of the coloniser. Plus, you need to include textspeak and emojis. And…
You’re right. Just leave it alone.
DX5 – You’re right. Just leave it alone.
Don’t touch it until a second term Jacinda, preferably don’t fuck with Mr Bracken’s antique travesty of an anthem at all. Leave it in a dusty cupboard somewhere, unnoticed. Get Fair Pay Agreements through, and sack all the neo lib bludgers at the top of the public sector first please!
Even John Key could not get a flag change with a bent process and millions chucked at it. It dented the then ‘wise guy’ of NZ politics, and showed people he was beatable.
Great post! I can see it now!
With this and the roads, all I can think of is that COL advisors are so bovine, clueless and uncreative, they stole the textbook of what John Key did a decade ago and trying to recreate it for Jacinda.
Someone said the ‘period poverty’ was a policy idea stolen from overseas. I guess solving poverty is too hard, so a free tampon to the poor, takes up less of the budget.
Problem is, times have changed and what worked for Key before all the problems have become apparent like housing, immigration, environmental degradation and wage losses, just makes Jacinda and Labour look like absolute idiot charlatans when they start trying to do a ‘Key’.
Also what works for National supporters don’t work for COL supporters. That should be obvious, but clearly judging by government policy on roads and immigration, it isn’t.