Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 9, 2016 6:28:02 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 9/4/16
REALITY CHECK ON TREATY
Tommy Wilson’s rather halfhearted apology for endeavouring to rewrite or add new meanings to the Treaty shows the unreliability of whakapapa (oral history), it being rewritten or embellished over time to suit the agendas of those giving it or receiving it or both.
Tommy is still having trouble with his translation. He claims Ka ora te whenua, ka ora te moana, ka ora te tangata means “if the land and the waterways are healthy, mankind is healthy”. If that is the meaning he wants then may I suggest: “Ki te ko i te whenua me te moana hauora ka he hauora te tangata”. Without hauora, which means health or healthy, his sentence has little meaning.
Tommy’s admission that he had failed the “gold rule of journalism” by failing to check the validity of his information may bode well for future columns, that by practicing the golden rule, we shall see a better standard of journalism.
R J P
Tauranga
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 8/4/16
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Your readers may not know that in Parliament and behind closed doors meetings are being held between the Iwi Leaders Group and some cabinet ministers that will give control of New Zealand's fresh water to 15 per cent of our population.
That would simply not be acceptable in democracy.
This proposal will make a complete mockery of the democratic principle that we live by. It would eliminate the public's right to consultation and disenfranchise the elected councillors.
L C
Otumoetai
REALITY CHECK ON TREATY
Tommy Wilson’s rather halfhearted apology for endeavouring to rewrite or add new meanings to the Treaty shows the unreliability of whakapapa (oral history), it being rewritten or embellished over time to suit the agendas of those giving it or receiving it or both.
Tommy is still having trouble with his translation. He claims Ka ora te whenua, ka ora te moana, ka ora te tangata means “if the land and the waterways are healthy, mankind is healthy”. If that is the meaning he wants then may I suggest: “Ki te ko i te whenua me te moana hauora ka he hauora te tangata”. Without hauora, which means health or healthy, his sentence has little meaning.
Tommy’s admission that he had failed the “gold rule of journalism” by failing to check the validity of his information may bode well for future columns, that by practicing the golden rule, we shall see a better standard of journalism.
R J P
Tauranga
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 8/4/16
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Your readers may not know that in Parliament and behind closed doors meetings are being held between the Iwi Leaders Group and some cabinet ministers that will give control of New Zealand's fresh water to 15 per cent of our population.
That would simply not be acceptable in democracy.
This proposal will make a complete mockery of the democratic principle that we live by. It would eliminate the public's right to consultation and disenfranchise the elected councillors.
L C
Otumoetai