Stacey Morrison

But if they think, well, what does a family or a whānau, Māori language strategy look like? It's about understanding the language that you use in your house every day.

And there are some wonderful books that has been put out by Stacey Morrison and Scotty Morrison about reo in the homes.

And so it's about taking time out, identifying the groups that you move in.

It could be in the home.

I just really had to reconnect to our tūranga waiwai.

And it's when I met Trina at Stacey Morrison, Stacey and Scotty Morrison's book launch, which was just, yeah, just meant to be.

And yeah, so yeah, been 10 years now me and Trina have been together on our blended whānau.

Yes.

Aotearoa is the widely used but unofficial Maori name for New Zealand.

Maori language advocate Stacy Morrison says the word has its origins in the discovery of this country.

Kupe, who people know as the first navigator, and Hine-te-Apārangi, another expert navigator, they were a couple, and the story that we hear from the north is that it was Hine-te-Apārangi who said, "He ao, he ao, he Aotearoa." It's a cloud, it's a cloud, it's a long white cloud.

She says the word shouldn't be controversial, and deleting it from new curriculums undermines the treaty partnership ministry documents say is supposed to be at their core.