The Puzzling Goldsmith – why would he take time to remove Aotearoa from an invite to Matariki?
Minister removed te reo greetings from official Matariki invitation
Key points:
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- Minister Paul Goldsmith had te reo greetings removed from a Matariki invite to an Australian Minister
- He said he didn’t think his Aussie counterpart would know what Aotearoa was.
- Labour’s Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said it was “shocking” and demanded an apology.
Willie Jackson is devastating in his criticism of why Paul Goldsmith removed Aotearoa from an invite to Matariki (and managed to cause a trans Tasman spat)…
The bashing we are seeing of Māori hides a deeper more nasty right wing privatization agenda that runs in tandem to dismantling Māori rights to challenge this agenda.
Paul had to go through the invite to wipe clean any Te Reo, that takes effort, that speaks to a deeper agenda, that isn’t normal.
To paraphrase Tim Walz, the new USA vice president aspirant, it’s weird.
It’s weird that the Government hate Māori aspiration so much, yet loves Big Tobacco aspiration.
It’s weird to hate Te Reo but love tax loop holes for Landlords.
It’s weird they can’t stand Māori Wards yet are changing laws for Mining companies and Real Estate speculation.
The National Party are weird.
…The National Party are weird because their anger towards everything Māori is weird.
Weird like ACT and weird like NZF.
Why remove Maori from an invitation and then blame the Australians?
New Zealand PM kicks off trans-Tasman language row after ‘incredibly simple’ jibe at Australians
Christopher Luxon explains why Māori language removed from letter, prompting Australian minister to hit back with reference to the band Split Enz
…why are we dragging the Australians into a purge against Te Reo driven by this Government?
Audrey Young was scathing of Hipkins asking questions that aren’t relevant but as much as I like Audrey, she is ensconced in the rarefied air of there Press Gallery and what Hipkins is zeroing on is the weirdness of this Government’s constant off tone comments on race.
That may seem petty to a gold plated Press Gallery journalist like Audrey, but this tone is acute to everyone not white and those who are white and aren’t redneck fuckwits.
There is an enormous cultural backlash building on the other side of the political equation and Labour need to champion the push back ALONGSIDE some you know, actual Left wing economic universalism that will actually create solutions.
But National, ACT and NZF are weird.
The ferret faced chutney muncher is now switching to AUSSIE bashing .The arogance of him and the skin head gang leader is beyond belief .
Luxon says Aussies are simple but the sent him packing when he tried tie muscle them to take over Virgin when at Air NZ .I think the phrase fuck off sonny boy may have been the message .Then he came home and sacked the engineers to pay for the 23 million he wasted .
Audrey Young throws here underwear at the likes of Luxon from the press gallery. Taking the country backwards at a rate of knots is seen as ‘progress’
So Paul Goldsmith wouldn’t know what Uluru is? To make matters worse the Australian Minister points out that he knows what Aotearoa means through listening to Six Months in a Leaky Boat, and no doubt hearing our National f’ing anthem at sporting events.
Your ‘old chestnut one’ – London in the bottom corner, it’s upside down and stained pink – all the dried blood
Much ado about nothing. Couldn’t have the entire text in te reo coz recipient would not understand it so why have any at all.
Ever heard of GOOGLE TRANSLATE ?
Relying on machines to present things to you so you can understand GL. How do you know they don’t lie?
Brom. “Much ado about nothing.” Yep. Lots of Aussies don’t speak te Reo and lots of Kiwis don’t. I think Key was the pollie who decided to Aotearoa- ise New Zealand and he wanted his own flag too.
And yet the Aussie knew what Aotearoa meant, and it’s in our National Anthem. Get a grip
Do you want the All Blacks to stop doing the Haka as well? Blind loyalty can be good but when the clowns you are following are heading for the cliff if you had any sense you would get off the bus
White backlash being used as cover for removing inconvenient restraint of Māori partnership on accessing and exploiting NZ resources. Luxon will take it as far as he can to maximize the political gains with little consideration for the social outcomes. Classic center right divide and rule tactics. This will result in a divided and angry electorate – the natural feeding ground of right wing politics.
This is a well used play book deployed successfully by center right politicians from Boris and Modi to Millei – find a target of blame – public servants, immigrants or an indigenous or religious minority and milk it till it renders electoral success.
Jacinda was a rightie? She had the divide and conquer down to near an art form by the end.
And all this time I though she was a far leftie. Fancy that, Ya do learn something new everyday.
Peter B “ Jacinda…had the divide and conquer down to an art form by the end” 100%. But she said she was kind, hence smiled at a two-tier society.
Jacinda was a rightie? She had the divide and conquer down to near an art form by the end.
And all this time I though she was a far leftie. Fancy that, Ya do learn something new everyday.
A few months ago myself and my daughter did the lower US and central America down to Costa Rica. Every time we were asked we said Aotearoa, right after the usual ‘No we are not aussie’. Everytime we had to explain Aotearoa is a new name for New Zealand, everytime except once. On that occasion we were on Ometepe Isand in Lake Nigaragua, the one the Chinese want to build a Panama canal competitor in fucking over the locals as they do. We ran into some Aussies, heard them coming for miles the loud bastards. I said to daughter ‘STFU and they may miss us’ but they heard us talk and all 8 rocked up. ‘Where you from?’ they asked, I replied ‘Aotearoa’. One came back ‘Where’s that mate?’, another popped up and said ‘I know I was there last year, it’s up just outside Darwin and it’s a nice spot’. We left it there.
Peter B Way back at Verdun in France, a grizzly old veteran smiled on learning we were from La Nouvelle Zealand, and not L’Angleterre . Not so long back, I enjoyed goodwill working with lovely South Koreans, because I was a New Zealander. The latter in particular would likely have thought me a mad woman had I said that I came from Aotearoa. Nobody canvassed me, my whanau, or the neighbours, about changing this country’s name to Aotearoa, and it is incumbent upon government to explain how, and why this has come about.
That being said, simple straightforward language is probably the most courteous and safest way of communicating anything at all, and preferably written by somebody who speaks it as a first language as we who struggle with appliances made in China with perplexing instructions are well aware.
A very suspicious character.
Maybe Willie should be asking Goldsmith if the canoeists should be stripped of their medals for wearing that heinous word “Aotearoa” on their tracksuits?
Kiwijoker. I espied an official Kiwi carry-all bag in a Paris Olympics newsclip emblazoned Aotearoa, with New Zealand in much smaller print underneath, and that irked me. It’s a management issue, and a policy issue, which needs to be explained.
Keep going Willy. We need you as leader of the Labour party. Everything he says here is true. Please oh please dump Hipkins