Iwi will only communicate in te reo
A few thoughts.
1. Certainly in terms of written comms, AI now means that this form of protest is redundant. A Minister can have the comms translated in seconds.
2. AI can even help with spoken translation. Just yesterday I was playing around with CHATGPT-4o... I was chatting away in English and then suddenly switched languages. I was impressed at how it understood both English (with all my umming and arring) as well as my heavily NZ-accented Hindi. This tech is a game changer and will mean people can speak to you in whatever language and you can have your own personal translator in your pocket.
3. I understand that Iwi are not happy about the govt looking to reverse Maori names for Ministries etc, but ultimately they need to consider whether doing things like this which potentially add barries to communication and increase the odds of misunderstanding is in their best long term interests.