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New Zealand’s prime minister has denigrated the intelligence of Australians in a joke during question time in parliament.The National party leader Chris Luxon said, “in my dealings with Australians it always pays to be incredibly simple”.The quip recalled former Kiwi leader Robert Muldoon’s infamous line that New Zealanders leaving for Australia “raised the IQ of both countries”.
This week, broadcasters TVNZ revealed Culture Minister Paul Goldsmith instructed officials to remove several te reo expressions from an invitation to Matariki, the annual celebrations of the Maori New Year.The invitation was bound for Tony Burke, Australia’s Multicultural Affairs minister.The Maori words included the greeting “tena koe” , the sign-off “naku noa, na” , and the removal of the widely-accepted Maori name for New Zealand: Aotearoa.
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