It's not solvable, to truly speak Maori you need to be immersed in it, and if you're an adult, have a talent for languages. There just aren't enough truly native speakers to go around. I have heard prominent and knowledgeable Maori bemoan the standard of ...
"Te reo is unique to nz" Nope, te reo Maori is an official language of the cook islands. Nz Maori is merely a dialect of the Maori language, which is spoken all across the Pacific. In fact there were a great many dialects of nz Maori even, many of which ...
Honesty? I'm stating facts, honesty doesn't come into it. By 1840 Maori had reduced forest cover from about 85% of the land, to about 55%, mostly through burn-offs that took place over centuries. If you think life in the stone age was better for humans ...
The fact remains, Key is right in what he says. Maori were not only grateful, but eager to acquire the goods brought to nz by pakeha. Prior to 1800, health care was ineffective and old age was attained at about thirty. Life was extraordinarily hard, ...
Maori certainly were grateful for the capital injected by early visitors and settlers, it's an historical fact. Read Trevor Bentleys book "pakeha Maori", Judge Frederick Mannings "Old Nz", or even Dr Kings Penguin History of Nz "Having" a pakeha was a huge...
If we stopped using petroleum based products our lives as we know it would end. Isn't it hypocritical to criticise oil production when the the pen you write with, the keyboard you are typing on, and the clothes you're wearing were all made using petroleum?...
It isn't logical to argue against extra surveillance powers on the basis that there is no or almost no threat, and in the same breath blame australias (and our) involvement in the middle east for incidents like this. Can't have it both ways. Is there a ...
A while ago I wrote on here about my mother, aged 70, a small business owner and life-long Labour voter, who had voted National last election out of fear that Labour Party policies would put her out of business. I was shouted down and called a fool, and my...
I have an expert involvement in these matters also. Like Iprent have zero opinion about the original issue, aside from noting that after an investigation the complaint was upheld. I do however have a major issue with Suttons comments, and the subsequent ...
Yes Robyn Malcom just cant keep her big mouth shut can she? "Two sides to the story". So more victim blaming and more stress for the complainant - now a celebrity is climbing all over her. Thanks Robyn, you do realise that your brother-in-jaw gave his side...
Wow. Finally a writer who has no opinion about the original issue, since, like the rest of us, they don't know exactly what took place. Most media disgracefully pounced on the complainant. What Sutton did at that press conference was a clumsy and foolish ...
... like it or not. [karol: Jay, please make an effort to...
We don't and can't know what the sis know, and we need to have some faith. This isn't America or Russia or Germany, we are all kiwis that more or less hold the same values, and I don't believe for a second these guys are despots wanting to subvert our ...
So since there is according to you a low risk of my being killed in an attack, and since I face other risks such as rogue golf balls, we should not monitor anyone in nz, especially not radical Muslims? By that logic since only eighty people odd are ...
Apparently all you geniuses with about 1% of the information think you know more about this issue and know how to do this complex and sensitive job better than all the sis staff, the prime ministers past and present, Phil goff, David Shearer, and goodness ...
The success of a scheme that pays a 3K subsidy to keen and resourceful people in return for taking up work doesn't therefore prove that increasing benefits will somehow have a long term benefit. That conclusion makes no sense at all. Why even say stuff ...
Greywarshark - Why am I being despised for making a valid point? I am merely making the point that left wing parties will have lost credibility by trumpeting about an increase in child poverty, when all along it was rubbish. It's sad really since it will ...
Wasn't the fact that "child poverty" is increasing exponentially a soapbox for left wing parties during the election. Now we find out it hasn't increased at all. In fact, it's slightly better now than it was at the end of labours last term. I know this ...
I understand legalities and the Evidence Act including section 68 very well. Section 68 merely protects a journalist from revealing his source in a criminal proceeding, unless a Judge orders otherwise. It is clearly meant to protect a journalist if he is ...
Cameron slater was illegally hacked. Some of this was published. Now there is an investigation to find out who the criminal is that hacked him. Journalists who publish such information, and who know the identity of the hacker, and who profit from the ...
Google Sally Xu nz, also a great charity. She is dying of hodgkins lymphoma, the same cancer that I have. Mine is responding to the treatment that pharmac funds, Sallys hasn't so she needs a treatment not yet funded here which is mega bucks. Regardless of ...
Wow, you can call me insulting things like "fool", and "cretin". You must be a very clever man. Were you bullied at school by any chance? Sadly despite my stupidity my vote is worth every bit as much as yours. Maybe more, since the party I voted for has ...
She has to work at it, because if she doesn't the business will collapse and she will lose her investment and source of income. If raising minimum wage is such an easy fix why won't national do it? It would increase the tax take to begin with. By that ...
My mother doesn't pay her staff minimum wage. But if minimum wage had suddenly gone up, she will have to pay her staff more. She can't afford to, so would have laid one off and worked harder herself. When people tell her that it's been proven raising ...
On the one hand my new flatmate, a French girl, had six job offers for waitressing work around ponsonby within one week of arriving in nz. On the other hand my cousin recently told me she was off to a job interview for a job she applied for for "a joke" to...
In my opinion there are innumerable major problems with the Labour Party that make winning either of the next two elections next to impossible. I can't imagine a more dysfunctional organisation, if it was a company the investors would have purged the ...
I very much agree with Mrs Turia. Sit in opposition, achieve little. Sit in government, achieve more. And the more seats you have, the more you achieve. Instead of five mps in government for the next three years they have two, with them languishing in ...
It's still none of you kneeling handcuffed preparatory to being publicly beheaded, all filmed from multiple angles, nor are you about to be stoned to death by a howling mob for having sex out of wedlock, nor are you facing a firing squad for speaking out ...
We cannot go down the path of Justifying violence in any way whatsoever. Hundreds of thousands deal with winz and other agencies and don't use violence when they don't get their own way. If anyone has a right to speak out and blame winz it's the families ...
I totally agree with coaster. It's easy for us to be anti-war, we're not the ones being stoned to death, murdered for being Christian or not observing sharia law, our sisters, daughters and mothers are not being forced into marriages, raped, or held in ...
Threats against winz have always been common for loads of reasons, they just got more publicity after the shootings. Drawing the conclusion that there must be a systemic problem at winz is like blaming rising domestic violence on women. I mean, there must ...
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