Kia ora speaker themselves. New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, uses "Kia Ora" as the name for its inflight magazine. Water Safety New Zealand, a water safety advocacy organisation, has a specific Māori water safety programme, "Kia Maanu Kia Ora", which makes use of the literal meaning of kia ora, as their message translates as "stay afloat; stay alive". In 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was uncommon in New Zealand, an Auckland telephone operator, Naida Glavish, was instructed to stop using "kia ora" when greeting callers after the post office had received a complaint. She refused
Ora (Rita Ora album) "she wears her influences on her sleeve". At "Time Out", Sharon O'Connell criticised the album because it contains "so little of Ora here", and suggested that "all Ora really gets to do is channel a sound now so ubiquitous it's carpet-bombed our consciousness". "Ora" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 41,509 copies. Throughout 2012, the album sold 242,500 copies, becoming the thirty-fifth best selling album of the year. In 2013, the album was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. "How We Do (Party)" was released as the album's lead single in North