Oh, yay…
Ties dropped from Parliament dress code after Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi’s stand
Parliamentary speaker Trevor Mallard has announced that ties will no longer be considered required as part of “appropriate business attire” for male MPs.
The issue was raised after Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi was expelled from the House by Mallard on Tuesday over his refusal to wear a tie. He had previously been stopped from speaking because he was without a tie.
…isn’t that dandy.
Standing ovation to the Māori Party for their branding but if we have finished banning the patriarchal heteronormative noose of the cis male white coloniser – could we get back to work now because things are looking a tad grim when it comes to Māori and the poor in NZ.
1 in 5 children are in poverty (a disproportionate amount of them Māori), over 20 000 are on a waiting list for social hosing (a disproportionate amount of them Māori), Maori are 380% more likely to be convicted of a crime, 200% more likely to die from heart disease and suicide, are paid 18% less and 34% leave school without a qualification.
They also die earlier and suffer more health issues, but yay the war on coloniser neckties has been won.
Great.
If this is truly the measure of our success, how low were our expectations?
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Maori are developed enough to join global trade. Maori have there politicians, iwi leaders and nefs on the couch who are perfect median headlines and still they are a part of the treaty infrastructure. Its the 8nternational and transnationals that Maori can’t deal with because they don’t have a treaty with the Maori. So to compete msori will have to finance there own savings pool with which to invest in there own infrastructure both domestically and abroad.
Lol. Sums the last 3.5 years up in one issue nicely. Takes 2 days to fix a 5 min problem.
Your side not mine.
“Appropriate business attire”
Are these guys politicians?
did Nandor wear a tie?He did wear a hemp suit. what a load of twaddle. Bad call by Mallard. He gifted this to the Maori Party.
Shona ! Shona ! Shona! Did you not sleep better last night knowing that mighty Mallard over-ruled the majority of Parliament to solve one man’s pressing problem ? He may even have us featured in the Guardian again… such stuff as dreams are made on…
Beware the encore…
Snow White: “….knowing that mighty Mallard over-ruled the majority of Parliament to solve one man’s pressing problem?”
Daffy Duck uses sledgehammer to kill sartorial ant, perhaps.
I do believe that there are issues of pressing importance facing the government. Rawiri Waititi’s feelings certainly ain’t one of them.
James Shaw started this this time. Some have a knack for seizing on gripes which get escalated right out of reality and into divisive time-wasting issues – Davidson’s attributing the Muslim murders to white colonialism was much worse, her advocation of the cunt another hurt-feelings issue. There are women close to me whose lives will be forever scarred and haunted by horrific happenings much more damaging than being called a rude word.
Boys used to object to wearing caps to school, but they weren’t political issues, they were just thought to be a nuisance. My school girl contemporaries objected to wearing uniform gloves on hot summer days, but not doing so was simply infra dig, and certainly not loaded with trouble-making connotations. Some men like to wear cuff links, and identifier cuff links, on specific occasions when buttons would do an equally good job, but they are a cultural idiosyncrasy, and harmless.
I dislike having to hongi, on both aesthetic and hygiene grounds, but the New Zealand populace is at ease with a Prime Minister hongi- ing with visiting VIP’s such as the King and Queen of the Netherlands, and having a Pakeha impose a Maori tradition upon outsider foreigners. Curtseying to British royalty looks pretty stupid to me, but these are all cultural or ethnic practices, and fairly unimportant compared to the grim reality of day-today living being experienced by many, and shouldn’t be providing distractions from this.
Snow White” “James Shaw started this this time………..Davidson’s attributing the Muslim murders to white colonialism…..”
The Greens. Illustrating yet again that they’re neither use nor ornament.
“….the New Zealand populace is at ease with a Prime Minister hongi- ing with visiting VIP’s such as the King and Queen of the Netherlands, and having a Pakeha impose a Maori tradition upon outsider foreigners.”
This small section of the NZ populace had never heard of this. And takes a very dim view of it. Way way WAY too close for comfort, I’d have thought. And cultural appropriation, surely?
Presumably now a no-no, with viruses of various sorts running rampant. Surely the cross-cultural practice of shaking hands is preferable? At any time, but especially now.
I note that handshaking is very much part of the social discourse in those areas of Europe which we’ve visited.
“…..the grim reality of day-today living being experienced by many….”
Exactly. And it is this to which the government and parliament ought to be devoting their time and attention. not some frou-frou about an MP who apparently doesn’t care that he’s hijacked the legitimate business of the House in pursuit of ethnic chauvinism.
With regard to that Waititi fellow: I note that he wears a suit (of a peculiar colour, but a suit nonetheless). And what looks remarkably like a stetson (in the Chamber, no less: the height of bad manners for a man to wear his hat inside buildings, anywhere at all, when I was young). Further evidence of some sort of ethnic chauvinism? Or cultural appropriation.
Anent the suit in general, the tie goes with it. Surely, if he’s willing to wear a suit, he ought also to wear a tie?
That colour, though….a crime against good taste, in my view.
I work hard physically Snow White. I am a gardener. And this is the time of year when I reap the rewards of my organically grown crops. So I’m sleeping very well thanks. I like Trevor , he’s knowledgeable. But he didn’t think this thru”. Was it the hat ?? perhaps, now that’s an offensive item!
I ‘m not too keen on the pale lavender suit; the hat perplexed me and could be
statement-making which escapes me, but I think that Mallard made an ok decision in denying the man his platform.
I prefer suited men wearing ties, but as I am not a man ( as yet) if someone feels colonial -yoked wearing one, then free him of the yoke before it escalates into an ACC claim, or a Human Rights Commission issue, or other.
I really do not want to see Parliament becoming a circus, and am pleased you ‘re sleeping well – the humidity has been a nuisance here, but the onset of autumn will ease things – my spuds and rhubarb are my only good performers, with tomatoes suddenly making a last spectacular run – half a cabbage $1.60 in NWS, and if they pop all Parliamentarians into blue denim suits cheaply sourced from China, then they can get down to business minus distractions and collars.
Parliament became a circus a long time ago, old Mallard duck is just the current ring leader.
Yeah and put them to work in the fields, coolie hats and all.!!!!
Shona! Shona! Shona! What fields ? The fields are now full of dairy cows, and here the fields are called paddocks – field is a white colonialist term often carrying a terrible history.
They can be put to work picking apples and learning about real work – the orchards are crying out for workers – no need to exploit Pacifica or Asian neighbours when a pollie could be probably be trained to pick an apple.
I have a civil defence book from the 1950s for instructing rescue crews, on the section for controllers (sort of foremen at the disaster site- it encourages the wearing of ties under the overalls and to generally consider presentation and smartness. What this instilled psychologically was an aire of authority among CD workers and for victims -that the crisis was under control and that the authorities/ chain of command was present and aware of the situation. For the wearer a tie was an outward expression of standards, it reinforced that the leaders lead. When one can still dress ones self well in crisis it conveys confidence, a tie adds a ‘shield’ for the wearer to master any situation. I think if we see parliament becoming too casual in dress then it sort of looses its authority.
I gotta get out of this teacup before this storm becomes a hurricane.
Hey! Parliament as a nudist group then everyone’s assets will be totally visible.
Stevie: “Parliament as a nudist group then everyone’s assets will be totally visible.”
Urgh! Looking at Chamber through gaps between fingers…. There are many things I do NOT wish to see. And that would be right up at the top of them.
What a load of cobblers. This Guy Waititi has played the stage. It’s bollocks of course. Who gives a fuck. He’s in the news for this reason but interview him in two and a half years and see what he has achieved for Maori. He accentuates the division between Māori and the Colonial past that has treated Māori poorly. We know the situation and his antics aren’t the solution. The cultural bullshit is glaring as we wonder how the Texan hat fits with our cultural offending. Someone needs to remind him of where he is and why he’s there.
New view: “The cultural bullshit is glaring as we wonder how the Texan hat fits with our cultural offending. Someone needs to remind him of where he is and why he’s there.”
Exactly. Waititi ought to be doing the job his voters put him there to do: not this nonsense.
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