The Maori Affairs select committee says it will debate the official changing of the country’s name to Aotearoa.
A 70,000 strong petition from Te Pati Maori went to parliament in June, gaining attention at home and internationally.
[…] Politicians have been divided on the name-change, although much of the public and many businesses have already adopted it.
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British colleagues may see an interesting New Zealand toy. Kiwis see childhood, relatives, old houses, noisy wooden floors and the possibility that one is still sitting in a cupboard at Mum’s place beneath several things nobody has touched since the Clark government.
Frenchwoman calls for mass deportations after days of rioting.
