I do like the idea conceptually, despite being unh...

2011-11-30T13:58:59.085+13:00

I do like the idea conceptually, despite being unhappy with the practical politics likely to result. Coming up with something less awful than "political agreement for exchanging confidence votes for policy" is well overdue. And perhaps even a te reo neologism would be useful, rather than using existing terms. It's not as though te reo is any less prone to new compound words than english is. And a lot of them are widely used, so public acceptance of the concept is there.

One advantage of this is that it might also make Act/Conservative heads explode. Giving priority to te reo in any situation seems to excite a certain type of right-winger, and having the National Party do so as a formal agreement would no doubt set them off.

In Oz the political linguists seem to struggle with the relationship between the ALP, Greens and independents in federal parliament because the term "coalition" has been largely appropriated by the Liberal/ National/ Liberal National Party (LNP) triad. No good news on that front though, there's just a lot of convoluted description and tabloid headlining.

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