Associate professor Dr Awanui Te Huia joins us LIVE tonight to talk about the harm removing te reo from early readers school texts can cause. Critics of the Government’s decision to phase out nearly all Māori words from early reader books are describing the move as damaging.An Israeli government minister has hit out at New Zealand and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, after he said Israel’s prime minister had “lost the plot” following his “utterly appalling” bombing of Gaza.Government Ministers slam Labour ministers' no-show at Covid-19 public hearing in day two of the fall out of Jacinda Ardern and her former colleagues not seeing the need to answer questions they have already answered, but this time in a three ringed circus=================================Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠=================================Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter.@patbrittenden @Chewie_NZFollow us on BlueskyPat @patbrittenden.bsky.socialChewie @chewienz.bsky.socialEmily @iamprettyawesome.bsky.socialMagenta @xkaosmagex.bsky.social