national anthem - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:41:07 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg national anthem - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Should NZ defend or amend national anthem? https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/11/12/change-national-anthem/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:50:45 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=113670 Herald reader acknowledging that the parliamentary prayer has been modified suggested New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand demands the same scrutiny, notes Max Cryer. "This is not impossible. Australia and Canada have both altered words within their official anthem, and in 1971 the Chancellor of the Exchequer reminded the British Parliament that Britain's anthem, God Save the Read more

Should NZ defend or amend national anthem?... Read more]]> Herald reader acknowledging that the parliamentary prayer has been modified suggested New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand demands the same scrutiny, notes Max Cryer.

"This is not impossible. Australia and Canada have both altered words within their official anthem, and in 1971 the Chancellor of the Exchequer reminded the British Parliament that Britain's anthem, God Save the Queen, actually has never had any official words." Continue reading

Should NZ defend or amend national anthem?]]> 113670 NZ anthem spiritual mumbo-jumbo https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/09/14/nz-anthem-spiritual-mumbo-jumbo/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=33323

HA, what a laugh! Maori singing songs to rivers and claiming they have a special right to water and wind. Let's charge them every time there is a flood. How about those Muslim women? Won't let men see them out of veil. Take them to the Human Rights Commission! As a non-believer, I don't have Read more

NZ anthem spiritual mumbo-jumbo... Read more]]> HA, what a laugh! Maori singing songs to rivers and claiming they have a special right to water and wind. Let's charge them every time there is a flood.

How about those Muslim women? Won't let men see them out of veil. Take them to the Human Rights Commission!

As a non-believer, I don't have a lot of time for religion, be it Christianity, Islam or Maori "spiritual" beliefs. So, if the Waitangi Tribunal, in its latest findings, talks about Maori believing that rivers have a mauri, or life-force, and taniwha lurking in the depths, shouldn't I be loudly ridiculing such mumbo-jumbo?

Perhaps, but the thing is, I'm not Maori. And while I don't personally hold spiritual beliefs about rivers, many Maori do. And the tribunal must take those beliefs into account. The tribunal isn't saying that there are taniwha in the Waikato. Read more

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Dave Armstrong is a writer for theatre and television.

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