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Showing posts with label English language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English language. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2026

Dame Elizabeth Rata: Episode 2 - Early Schools, Intermarriage, Nation-building 1815-1877

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In the video below Episode Two explains how English became accepted as the language of national unity. The Māori language remained in const...
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Monday, September 7, 2026

Damien Grant: Tamatha Paul calls English ‘a bastard language’ - She’s missing the point

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English is a bastard language, claims Tamatha Paul. She declared, with a confidence devoid of comprehension: “It’s a bastardisation of Gre...
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Thursday, September 3, 2026

Judy Gill: English is now an Official Language. The Ministry of Education must review its language policies.

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The mixed te reo-English register now routine across New Zealand education did not appear overnight. Its policy roots stretch back decades —...
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Sunday, August 9, 2026

Geoff Parker: If Official Status Doesn't Matter, Why Does It Matter?

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Over the past week RNZ has published two articles criticising the English Language Act. In the first, the Māori Language Commissioner argued...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Ani O'Brien: I am proud to be British 🇬🇧

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Is it okay to be proud of one's culture? It has become fashionable all over the world to scoff at being British. Mention you’re proud of...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Sarah Ewall-Wice: Trump to make English the official first language of the United States

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President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday that makes English the official language of the United States. The order allow...
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Sunday, October 27, 2024

David Farrar: Just use the language everyone in a conversation understands

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Radio NZ reports : Waikato public hospital has told nurses not to speak to patients in any language other than English. A memo sent to all n...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

DTNZ: Controversy erupts over hospital English language directive

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A general manager at Palmerston North Hospital, in a WhatsApp message, instructed Indian nurses to stop using their native language in publi...
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Monday, July 8, 2024

David Lillis: An English Curriculum for Education and Teaching - not for Ideology

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Creating a New English Curriculum During 2022 and 2023 we saw much debate on the previous Labour government’s Refreshed New Zealand Curricul...
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Sunday, August 20, 2023

James Kierstead: Why English is the Lingua Franca

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Why does so much of the world speak English? As someone who was born in Canada, educated in the UK and US, and has now been living in New Ze...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Denis Hall: This is about setting up an English language and European cultural association.

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The English Language is over a thousand years old – and that - and the Great Global European Culture and Civilisation needs to be a cause fo...
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Friday, December 2, 2022

Bruce Moon: Reflections - a Memoir

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Step out of your comfort zone and the world may surprise you! Margaret, my dear late wife, had been working with patients that afternoon a...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Denis Hall: The utter futility of nation-wide wall to wall maori language indoctrination?

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I think this Essay will also be about the TRAVESTY of the subversion of truth in New Zealand’s twenty first century society. Why do I keep h...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Denis Hall: Did you watch TV One News tonight?

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My name is Denis Hall. I was born in New Zealand almost 81 years ago to European parents - also both born here - as were their parents and g...
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Sunday, May 1, 2022

Joe Bennett: Evolving language scoffs at moral or political aims

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She's well into her 70s, lives alone, has a science degree or two, speaks her mind, does not own a television, leaves her back door open...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Dennis Gates: Plain Language or Manglish?

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The Plain Language Bill currently before Parliament could well be a touchstone for a very divisive issue confronting New Zealand, namely th...
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Friday, January 28, 2022

Don Brash: Why is the Maori language being thrust down the throats of people with no interest in learning it?

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Over the last few years, and especially since the current Government was elected late in 2020, there has been an increasing trend to use the...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

Mike Butler: Tribute to language petitioner

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When Tauranga woman Robin Bishop heard, about two years ago, that English had no official status, she contacted Tauranga MP Simon Bridges...
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