Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 4, 2020 3:20:56 GMT 12
JACINDA ARDERN WON'T COMMIT TO 'AOTEAROA' COUNTRY NAME CHANGE
Māori leaders - including the woman who fought to greet customers with 'kia ora' - want 'Aotearoa' to be recognised as an official name of our country.
Dame Naida Glavish famously challenged the right to greet callers with "kia ora" while she was working at the post office 30 years ago - and she's right in behind the case.
"It was Aotearoa before we got a foreign sailor coming in here," she said. "Why should we have to go through the trials and tribulations to be who we are in our own country?"...
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/jacinda-ardern-won-t-commit-to-aotearoa-country-name-change.html
Māori leaders - including the woman who fought to greet customers with 'kia ora' - want 'Aotearoa' to be recognised as an official name of our country.
Dame Naida Glavish famously challenged the right to greet callers with "kia ora" while she was working at the post office 30 years ago - and she's right in behind the case.
"It was Aotearoa before we got a foreign sailor coming in here," she said. "Why should we have to go through the trials and tribulations to be who we are in our own country?"...
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/jacinda-ardern-won-t-commit-to-aotearoa-country-name-change.html