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NZ passport to be redesigned with english text first

Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden has confirmed that future New Zealand passports will feature English above te reo Māori, reversing the current design introduced in 2021 where “Uruwhenua Aotearoa” appears first.

While new passports are being developed with security upgrades and the English-first format, the government will continue issuing remaining stock of the current design.

The change comes amid political debate over the use of the name “Aotearoa,” with NZ First leader Winston Peters arguing it is not New Zealand’s official name and should not appear on government documents without public consultation.

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  1. Do the same for all Government Departments…English first, since it is a the Universal Language that is internationally recognised in Ship-to Shore communications, Air Traffic Control, and employed as a secondary language that overcomes the language barriers of non-English native language speakers who can converse in English.

  2. Will it also have a star of David? may as well because they seem to have a lot to do with what is allowed to be said and written around here and they paid good money to NGO,s and Lobbiests to facilitate it.

    • Well, we got a Rothschild privately owned central bank masquerading as RBNZ calling the shots, and a Zionist owned occultist government, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
      The name “Star of David” originated in the 13th century in Kabbalah—the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible—where it is a magic symbol associated with the pentagram. It is very commonly known that the pentagram is directly associated with witchcraft and occultism. The star symbol continues down through the occult to the Jewish Mayer Amschel Bauer, who, in the 18th century, changed his name (Rothschild) to depict the red six-pointed star (or shield) which he had hung on his door in Germany, and thus began the family of the “Red Shield” or Rothschild. Also, several Rothschild descendants have the star of David on their coat of arms. They were a Jewish family, but it is not a symbol of Judaism. The Rothschilds were instrumental in raising up the Zionist Movement in 1896, in funding its activities, and then forcing the occultist leaders of Israel in 1948 to adopt the hexagram as their national symbol. The “Star of David” was adopted by the First Zionist Congress (in 1897) as a symbol, and it is seen on the flags of the Zionist Organization and of the State of Israel.
      https://www.truegospel.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Audio.details/ID/3951/Six-Pointed-Occult-Symbol.htm

  3. Not good enough, as it still promotes co-governance. The made up name “Aotearoa” for New Zealand needs to be gone from all taxpayer supported state run corporations/documentation, period.

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