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Māori Language Week 2020

31/8/2020

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Māori Language week has been celebrated each year from 1975.
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Māori Language Day is September 14 and commemorates the presentation of the 1972 Māori language petition to parliament.

Mahuru Māori is an initiative begun in 2017 to promote the use of te reo Māori throughout the month of September.

​What is your library doing to celebrate? Share your story with us before the end of September and be featured in Library Life magazine so we can spread the joy!

​Email: Helen@lianza.org.nz

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​Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori

The chosen theme for 2020 is again 'Kia Kaha te Reo Māori’.

‘Kia Kaha’ is well understood in New Zealand English with its meaning of ‘be strong’. We often talk about languages as if they are people – talking about language health, strength and revitalisation. So when we say ‘Kia Kaha te Reo Māori’ we’re saying  - ‘Let’s make the Māori language strong'.

Strength for an endangered language comes from its status, people being aware of how to support revitalisation, people acquiring and using it and from the language having the right words and terms to be used well for any purpose.

On the Māori Language Week website you can find resources, ideas and reports about revitalisation and its increasing success.

It’s a part of the national promotion of te reo Māori undertaken by Crown agencies and coordinated by the Māori Language Commission as part of the Crown’s Māori language strategy, the Maihi Karauna. This strategy supports the revitalisation strategy of Māori and iwi, led by Te Mātāwai.

Te reo Māori is a taonga of Māori, guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi. But the Māori Language Act 2016 also makes clear it is for every New Zealander and a valued part of our national identity.
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Goals of Māori Language Week

  • Create a positive environment for the use of Māori language.
  • Promote Māori language initiatives and events.
  • Encourage non-Māori speaking New Zealanders to use reo Māori.
  • Encourage speakers of Māori to support others who are just starting out.
  • Encourage community, business, government and media organisations to participate.
  • Promote resources to make Māori language more accessible.
  • Contribute to awareness of the Crown Māori Language Strategy and the Māori and iwi strategy that work together for revitalisation.  
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New role to champion reading for children

4/8/2020

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Photo credit - Mark Beatty National Library.

A new role of New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people is being established, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern and Minister for Internal Affairs and for Children, Tracey Martin announced today.

The Reading Ambassador, announced at a crowded Celebration of Reading event at the National Library in Wellington, will advocate for and promote the importance of reading in the lives of young New Zealanders, their whānau and communities, helping create a ‘nation of readers’.

“We know from research that reading for pleasure makes a huge difference to a child’s wellbeing and their potential for life-long success – in personal relationships, education, health and employment,” Jacinda Ardern said.
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“The most recent OECD Programme for International Students assessment (PISA) results also show a marked decline in reading for pleasure, with nearly half of New Zealand 15-year-olds never reading for enjoyment.
“This makes it important for us to find ways to support educators, families and whānau to build and sustain reading cultures in their communities, at the same time contributing to the Government’s wider efforts on child wellbeing and poverty reduction,” Jacinda Arden said.
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The establishment of the New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people is another step to creating a ‘nation of readers’, something that is widely agreed as important across the literary, education, library and cultural sectors, Tracey Martin said.

​Minister Martin acknowledged the great display of New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalist books and the importance for New Zealand kids to see the value of NZ books and writing.
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“Just as importantly, though, it simply promotes reading and we all know what a difference the right book can make in the life of a child or young person,” Tracey Martin said. 

The inaugural NZ Reading Ambassador will be appointed part time for two years, funded by Te Puna Foundation and supported by National Library in collaboration with key partners, including Creative NZ and ReadNZ. The nomination process will be confirmed shortly.


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Equal Pay Amendment Act

2/8/2020

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LIANZA is delighted the Equal Pay Amendment Act was passed by Parliament last week. The act introduces a simple and accessible process to address systemic sex-based pay discrimination across female-dominated industries and amends the Equal Pay Act (1972).

Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter described it as one of the biggest gains for gender equity in the workplace since the Equal Pay Act passed almost 50 years ago

In May 2019, Rachel Esson, LIANZA Immediate Past-President, and Moira Fraser, LIANZA Past-President, made an oral submission representing LIANZA to the select committee, supporting LIANZA’s written submission on the Equal Pay Amendment Bill.

You can read more here
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The Equal Pay Amendment Bill was triggered by a claim that went to the Supreme Court in 2014, started by Kristine Bartlett, who argued that aged-care workers were underpaid because they were mostly women.
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“Our equal pay laws say that women and men should be paid the same for jobs of equal value, even if they are different. This is called pay equity. Until now, workers have only been able to make claims through the courts. The Equal Pay Amendment Bill will allow workers to make a pay equity claim within New Zealand’s existing bargaining framework. By making court action a last resort, the proposed approach will lower the bar for workers initiating a pay equity claim, and utilise a collaborative process more familiar to unions and businesses.”
MBIE. (2020). A just and practical pay equity framework. Retrieved from MBIE >
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The 2019 LIANZA submission raised the issue of occupations where there are many different employers and how professional organisations should be involved in this process. “Given the nature of our sector, where library staff are usually a small group of staff for their employers, the process for combining claims by multiple employers is of great interest to us. We are particularly concerned for staff working in school libraries and how easy it will be to combine claims where the multiple employers are schools”.

NZ Library Association was also involved in a pay equity claim in the mid-1970’s. The PSA set up several committees to discuss whether public service occupations might be able to take a claim under the new Equal Pay Act (1972). Librarians were one group that established a committee. By that time the majority of librarians were women, and the profession had a problem over its relatively low salaries because Australian libraries were recruiting in New Zealand Trevor Mowbray recalls being involved on the library committee that compared the skills of librarians to those of male dominated professions. The claim was submitted to the Public Service Tribunal, which granted a salary increase for librarians.
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You can read more about this historical pay equity claim and the recent update on the progress of a pay equity claim for school librarians being negotiated by Ministry of Education and NZEI in Library Life June 2020.

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