Long time no post; I have kept my output going via various Facebook groups, but since some of them seem to have become the dwelling place of conspiracy theorists, with agendas on Fluoride in drinking water, 1080 poisoning everyone, etc. and, that I was so annoyed by a prat called John Ansell and his "Treatygate" get media commentary on the breakfast news, I felt obliged to start blogging again.
The issue on the news article that regrettably gave Ansell air time for his simplistic views was that of adding the Maori names for the north and south islands of New Zealand. From that link you can see that "the practice was common place until the mid 1950's". It isn't new and the lecturer on marleting that arued for the change blew Ansell out of the water.
Ansell did the usual fear mongering "next we'll be calling New Zealand Aotearoa" - the sooner the better, the sooner we become a republic and free ourselves of the shackles of the manarchy the better.
