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Why there is a legal and constitutional relationship withe Pacific Islands and why Pasifika people from the Realm of NZ in Cooks Tokelau & Niue are indigenous citizens of NZ []

A legal constitutional report on these relationship can be found at- []

New Zealand's Legal and Constitutional Relationship with the Pacific.

@http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/portfolios/education/2010/oct/27/pasifika_language_resources Read the debate between Sua William Sio and the Minister of Education.


 * Mr Harrison:** No one, no matter how poor, becomes richer by abandoning (or being coerced to abandon) one language to learn another, and in fact I suggest they become poorer from it. @http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/11/interview

Pacific Languages Strategy being developed @http://www.mpia.govt.nz/promoting-pacific-languages-in-new-zealand/

PISA Results 2009 @http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/2543/pisa-2009/pisa-2009-our-21st-century-learners-at-age-15/1 Here you can read how our children are doing in the OECD based test. Note: Māori and Pasifika students were over-represented at the lower end.


 * [|Community language maintenance: whose responsibility?]
 * The languages forum will be hosted by the Human Rights Commission in Hamilton on Monday 22 August
 * Check out [|NZ Diversity Forum] for updates.

Ministry of Education (2010) Latest data on the targets from the Pasifika Education Plan 2009-2012. @http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/themes/pasifika_education/progress_against_pasifika_education_plan_targets

[|Lighting New Fires]

Language Revival
Patis Space Samoan Language ECE Educators @http://www.hawaiianlanguage.tv/

Need for a Pacific Strategy http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/why-labour-needs-pacific-strategy.html

Pacific Guardians Website http://pacificguardians.org/2014/03/07/d-day-for-pacific-languages-18-march-2014/.html Founder: Lealaiauloto Aigaletaulealea Fatumanavaoupolu Tauafiafi

Royal Society calls for recognition for Pasifika languages http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2013/03/08/new-zealands-linguistic-superdiversity/

Govt response to Pacific languages disappointing
===Originally aired on [|Morning Report, Thursday 20 March 2014] ===  []

Very interesting community new social media update from the spreading concerns in the Pasifika community []

Call for recognition of Samoan language

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