{"id":69864,"date":"2025-03-05T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/new-zealand-parliament-maori-name-aotearoa-row-peters-menendez-brownlee-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:31:36","slug":"row-erupts-in-new-zealand-parliament-over-use-of-maori-name-aotearoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69864","title":{"rendered":"Row erupts in New Zealand parliament over use of M\u0101ori name Aotearoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debates<\/p>\n<p>The speaker of New Zealand\u2019s parliament has told lawmakers to stop complaining about the use of the M\u0101ori name for the country, after the deputy prime minister strongly objected to hearing it in the house.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling on Tuesday, Gerry Brownlee said that while \u201cNew Zealand\u201d is the official name, the M\u0101ori name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/aotearoa-or-new-zealand-has-the-moment-come-to-change-the-countrys-name\">\u201cAotearoa\u201d is used widely<\/a>, including on currency and passports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/new-zealand-parliament-maori-name-aotearoa-row-peters-menendez-brownlee-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debatesThe speaker of New Zealand\u2019s parliament has told lawmakers to stop complaining about the use of the M\u0101ori name for the country, after the dep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864\/revisions\/69865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}