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Speaker 1: Once again we asked the question, among many questions around

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Speaker 1: the matter, who is paying for the Waitangi Tribunal and

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Speaker 1: how much of it is what you would loosely call

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Speaker 1: value for money. There's a new urgent hearing this week.

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Speaker 1: It is to do with the new government's promise to

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Speaker 1: have non Mari government departments use English for their name.

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Speaker 1: I think the NCTA, the Ministry of Education. Now, the

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Speaker 1: argument brought forward by a tarong at Ewe is this

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Speaker 1: does harm the policy, this does harm to terreo small irony.

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Speaker 1: So far, for many people it seems to contact this

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Speaker 1: particular program. It doesn't seem that the instruction has been

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Speaker 1: sent out by the government at all. The waters were

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Speaker 1: somewhat muddied. I thought when it was suggested that ol

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Speaker 1: Ranga Tamariki might keep their name as well as kayeg

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Speaker 1: A Aura, given they were the names most of us

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Speaker 1: knew the department by How they come up with that,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, although I assume they meant that. Given

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Speaker 1: those two departments in particular have spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time in the news, the commonality of the reference might

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Speaker 1: well have stuck. Which of you think about it was

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Speaker 1: sort of the idea in the first place, Really, wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: Having the vast majority of us exposed to another language,

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Speaker 1: especially an official language, may help the language live breathe

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Speaker 1: in spand. But what also happened is Marii terms, names

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Speaker 1: and phrases got tossed about with mad abandoned and muddy

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Speaker 1: the water's a comprehension. The media have broadly speaking in

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Speaker 1: a fit of wokeism and embarrassed themselves and in part

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Speaker 1: for the damage they're already damaged reputations by embracing the

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Speaker 1: activity with an alacrity that's been humiliating. Tokenism is not language,

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Speaker 1: but tokenism is what you get. A news bulletin's a

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Speaker 1: peppering of Maori with the English that leads to nothing

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Speaker 1: more than a trendy nod to a fad. But it's

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Speaker 1: a national crisis, apparently so much so that taxpayer money

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Speaker 1: must once again be dispersed to lawyers and full time

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Speaker 1: agitators to once again front the tribunal, who will write

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Speaker 1: their usual report, which will be treated in the usual way,

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Speaker 1: which is what's the marray word for bin. For more

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