Winston Peters on Maori Party’s Policy of Renaming New Zealand Aotearoa: ‘Headline Search’

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has criticized the Maori party’s policy of renaming New Zealand Aotearoa, calling it “headline hunting.”

In time for Maori Language Week, the Maori party candidate for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi, announced the party’s policy for Maori reo te reo.

The announced policy aims to ensure that New Zealand’s name is changed to Aotearoa and that all place, city and town names in Pākeha will be replaced by their original Maori ingoa (name) by 2026.

But Peters has criticized the policy on Twitter, saying it’s a bad move at a time when exports are particularly important.

“This is a simple headline search regardless of the cost to this country,” Peters wrote on the social media platform.

“It will make our international marketing brand extraordinarily confusing when exports are critical to our economic survival.”

Peters went on to say that the Maori Party was “again rushing down the path of separatism” instead of focusing on jobs, housing, health and education.

His approach “will be great for the ‘Waitangi Treaty industry’, but disastrous for Maori seeking the four fundamentals of housing, education, employment and health.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not say whether she supported an official name change, but told the media at today’s 1:00 p.m. briefing. M. That he saw that “Aotearoa” was used more frequently.

“I hear more and more often the use of interchangeable Aotearoa with New Zealand and that’s a good thing,” he said.

“Whether or not we change it in the law, I don’t think it will change the fact that New Zealand is increasingly known as Aotearoa.”

He hadn’t explored an official name change, but was encouraged as he saw people using it more often.

Acting leader David Seymour said now is not the time to discuss a name change.

“I don’t care if we call it Timbuktu right now.

“When we are at the peak of this crisis and the debt that it has created, then we can debate the name.”

Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson said the party supported a “public korean around the use of Maori place names.”

“We are very happy that Aotearoa is now in common use, including in the official name of our own party, and we believe that this widespread use is something to celebrate,” he said.

The Maori Party also aims to establish a Maori Standards Authority which will have the legislative power to audit all public service departments against the standards of cultural competence.

“The Māori Standards Authority will ensure that the mana de te reo Māori me ōna tikanga is respected in all state sectors. It ensures that these public departments are held accountable and engaged in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in a meaningful and lasting way. that symbolic approach that we see too often, “Waititi said during this morning’s announcement.

The policy also ensures that Maori tea and Maori history will become core curriculum subjects through the tenth grade in secondary schools and requires that all elementary schools incorporate Maori tea into 25% of their curriculum. studies by 2026 and 50% by 2030.

Maori Party Policy for Reo Maori Tees:

• Rename New Zealand to Aotearoa by 2026.

• Replace all European town, city and place names with their original Maori names by 2026.

• Invest $ 50 million in the establishment of a Maori standardization authority; a dependent statutory entity whose role will be to audit all public service departments against standards of cultural competence, including monitoring and auditing language plans.

• Establish the month of the Maori language.

• Double funding from Te Mātāwai ($ 28 million).

• Remunerate primary and secondary schools and Kaiako according to their competency as Maori te reo.

• Ensure that Maori tea and Maori history are core curriculum subjects until grade 10 in secondary schools.

• Invest $ 40 million for early childhood to kaiako high school to develop their inmate.

• Require all elementary schools to incorporate Maori tea into 25% of their curriculum by 2026 and 50% by 2030.

• Invest $ 20 million in developing Maori tea resources.

• Require that all state-funded broadcasters (workforce) in all media have a basic level of fluency in Maori tea.