The Backstory: Why Stuff's homepage greets you with 'Kia ora, Aotearoa!' not 'Hello, New Zealand!'
We receive more complaints about this than any single other feature. But I don’t want to blow this out of proportion. The volume of complaints is low – infinitesimal even – in the context of the millions of people who visit Stuff each month. All indications are that most people either don’t have a problem with “Kia ora, Aotearoa!” or actively welcome it. Some complainants are well-meaning but are uncomfortable with the pace of recent social change. Stuff Here it is: the innocuous phrase that keeps my inbox alive with complaints. But a disappointing number of complainants use t...