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Democracy Delayed Is Democracy Denied - Tom Henry

When New Zealanders voted in 2023, they didn’t just want a better economy and safer streets—THEY WANTED THEIR COUNTRY BACK. They voted to END race-based laws, DEFEND freedom, and RESTORE the rule of law. The Coalition Agreement spelled that out in black and white. Yet what do we get from the Prime Minister? Selective memory and political evasion. Mr Luxon’s pre-budget speech cherry-picks from the voter mandate, but ignores the very foundation of why Kiwis demanded change in the first place.

Point of Order: More Māori words make it into the OED...

....and polytech boss (with rules on words like “students”) is promoting the use of others

New Zealand Education Minister Jan Tinetti is hosting the inaugural Conference of Pacific Education Ministers for three days from today, welcoming Education Ministers and senior officials from 18 Pacific Island countries and territories, and from Australia.

Here’s hoping they have brought translators with them – or packed the latest edition of the OED. The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary last week announced the OED has deepened its coverage of New Zealand English by adding 47 new entries.