ISSUE
Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Moves are afoot to change the daily prayer in Parliament. Apparently it's out of date.
New Zealand First doesn’t agree. We believe it does reflect us. It's a tradition that shows what we were and where we came from.
As more and more people come to New Zealand, are we going to change everything to reflect that? It seems we are embarrassed about ourselves but who knows why? Other countries don't throw out their traditions so why is there pressure for us to do it?
Both the prayer and the flag are traditions but the Prime Minister has decided he wants to spend more than $25 million on changing the flag. He thinks New Zealand is a business and needs a new symbol. But he is wrong we are not a business and, more importantly, we don't want taxpayers' money wasted on an exercise at the whim of the Prime Minister.
Let’s look overseas. In Britain a big driver of tourism is tradition. Britain’s tourism earnings would be in a sorry state if they got rid of their tradition. They keep them in working order, and not tucked away in museums. They know that people love pomp and ceremony and the pageantry. They are proud of their traditions. Think of the American flag. We still see the stripes in the American flag, of the original colonies.
We are tired of some coming to New Zealand and wanting to change all our traditions and all our values and all our laws. They aren’t all screaming for change. The few who do are joined by far too many New Zealanders who think we should be politically correct. Ironically it is the National government that is wasting our precious resources on these changes when it was National that repeatedly pointed its finger at the Labour Government for being too politically correct.
Let’s not throw away all our reminders of the past? There's going to be nothing left in working order to reflect our roots to future generations.
The proposal for the new flag is to remove references to "religion" and "Jesus".
But the wording in Te Reo Maori is inappropriate as it mentions only one iwi to the exclusion of all others. That’s another reason to stick with the current prayer, and let's get on with the important matters.
Moves are afoot to change the daily prayer in Parliament. Apparently it's out of date.
New Zealand First doesn’t agree. We believe it does reflect us. It's a tradition that shows what we were and where we came from.
As more and more people come to New Zealand, are we going to change everything...
Moves are afoot to change the daily prayer in Parliament. Apparently it's out of date.
New Zealand First doesn’t agree. We believe it does reflect us. It's a tradition that shows what we were and where we came from.
As more and more people come to New Zealand, are we going to change everything to reflect that? It seems we are embarrassed about ourselves but who knows why? Other countries don't throw out their traditions so why is there pressure for us to do it?
Both the prayer and the flag are traditions but the Prime Minister has decided he wants to spend more than $25 million on changing the flag. He thinks New Zealand is a business and needs a new symbol. But he is wrong we are not a business and, more importantly, we don't want taxpayers' money wasted on an exercise at the whim of the Prime Minister.
Let’s look overseas. In Britain a big driver of tourism is tradition. Britain’s tourism earnings would be in a sorry state if they got rid of their tradition. They keep them in working order, and not tucked away in museums. They know that people love pomp and ceremony and the pageantry. They are proud of their traditions. Think of the American flag. We still see the stripes in the American flag, of the original colonies.
We are tired of some coming to New Zealand and wanting to change all our traditions and all our values and all our laws. They aren’t all screaming for change. The few who do are joined by far too many New Zealanders who think we should be politically correct. Ironically it is the National government that is wasting our precious resources on these changes when it was National that repeatedly pointed its finger at the Labour Government for being too politically correct.
Let’s not throw away all our reminders of the past? There's going to be nothing left in working order to reflect our roots to future generations.
The proposal for the new flag is to remove references to "religion" and "Jesus".
But the wording in Te Reo Maori is inappropriate as it mentions only one iwi to the exclusion of all others. That’s another reason to stick with the current prayer, and let's get on with the important matters.
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