×

What are you looking for?

Subscribe to
Platform Plus for
enhanced access
and features

MORE PODCASTS

Dealing With Grief - Especially Kids With The Loss Of Pets

Leah Panapa Rewind

Petition To End Gender-Neutral Changing Rooms & Toilets At WCC

Leah Panapa Rewind

David Farrar On TOP & The Sympathetic Media Coverage From MSM

Laws Uncensored Rewind

Sean Plunket Reports In From London On Day 2 Of The ARC Conference

Laws Uncensored Rewind

ML Exposes The Co-Governance Charade And $8m Taxpayer Iwi Funding

Laws Uncensored Rewind

David Harvey On Why We Need The Marcroft Law That Defines A Woman.

Laws Uncensored Rewind

NZTA Has Excluded Horse Riders From The Proposed Manawatu Rail Trail

Leah Panapa Rewind

Christine Rankin On The Government Boosting Funding For Hospice

Leah Panapa Rewind

Property Investors Oppose Labour's Proposed Residential Tenancies Bill

Leah Panapa Rewind

A Maori Clinical Psychologist Is Silenced By Her woke, Fascist Peers

Laws Uncensored Rewind

Your Opinion Matters

Open.
Tolerant.
Free.

Elizabeth Rata On Removing Māori Words From Early Reading Books

Michael Laws
Talkback Host and Contributing Writer
Posted 14 August 2025

Missed out on this content?

No worries. Join Platform Plus to get unlimited access to all The Platform content.

For just $34 per month you won't have to miss out again!

JOIN NOW

or Click here to login

Michael Laws talks to Elizabeth Rata about the backlash to removing Māori words from early reading books.

Michael Laws is a former MP and Mayor and is now deputy chairman of the Otago Regional Council. He has hosted both radio and TV shows for Radio Pacific, Radio Live and SKY Television. He is an award-winning writer – and has published three bestselling books.