It's set to be a long-winded and largely pointless exercise.
If you can be bothered, get a read on where each of the parties stand.
Why?
Because you will find that some parties don’t agree with the committee and think the so-called punishment is a bit hard.
The Prime Minister was asked about this yesterday at his post-Cabinet press conference. In fact, they were the first questions asked, which was sad and yet again a reminder of how the Press Gallery is not really interested in the news of the day, and perhaps even the good news of the day.
The good news of the day came from the Finance Minister, who was standing next to the Prime Minister at said conference and had been busy up to the question bit outlining some new tax treatment for investment and payments for start-ups and businesses looking for a bit of relief around rules and paperwork.
That got scant coverage, despite the fact these are the very sort of issues, ideas, and polices that will drag this beleaguered economy out of the quagmire it is currently stuck in.
As regards to the Privileges Committee, for the record, the Prime Minister stood firm on the ensuing debate, and whether or not by bargaining away the decision it could expedite what could be days of time wasting.
Why this matters is because standards matter, and standards in this country have become embarrassing. What the Māori Party did was farcical, as well as embarrassing.
Their punishment was not because they were Māori, or because what they did was Māori, it was because they broke the rules, and rules count or should count.
Because when they don’t, people like the Māori Party and to a lesser degree the Labour Party and the Greens, bring us all into disrepute.
Believe it or not, there are large swathes of this country that find what has been happening at our highest level of leadership to be completely and utterly shocking, as well as embarrassing and needless, and we are more than over it.
By asking whether Government can plea bargain it away so we can skip a lengthy, boring debate is systematic of the problem itself.
"Why deal to it, when we can ignore it or water it down?"
If those who think this is all okay want to debate it and remind us what mediocre looks like, that's on them.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
The Prime Minister was asked about this yesterday at his post-Cabinet press conference. In fact, they were the first questions asked, which was sad and yet again a reminder of how the Press Gallery is not really interested in the news of the day, and perhaps even the good news of the day.
The good news of the day came from the Finance Minister, who was standing next to the Prime Minister at said conference and had been busy up to the question bit outlining some new tax treatment for investment and payments for start-ups and businesses looking for a bit of relief around rules and paperwork.
That got scant coverage, despite the fact these are the very sort of issues, ideas, and polices that will drag this beleaguered economy out of the quagmire it is currently stuck in.
As regards to the Privileges Committee, for the record, the Prime Minister stood firm on the ensuing debate, and whether or not by bargaining away the decision it could expedite what could be days of time wasting.
Why this matters is because standards matter, and standards in this country have become embarrassing. What the Māori Party did was farcical, as well as embarrassing.
Their punishment was not because they were Māori, or because what they did was Māori, it was because they broke the rules, and rules count or should count.
Because when they don’t, people like the Māori Party and to a lesser degree the Labour Party and the Greens, bring us all into disrepute.
Believe it or not, there are large swathes of this country that find what has been happening at our highest level of leadership to be completely and utterly shocking, as well as embarrassing and needless, and we are more than over it.
By asking whether Government can plea bargain it away so we can skip a lengthy, boring debate is systematic of the problem itself.
"Why deal to it, when we can ignore it or water it down?"
If those who think this is all okay want to debate it and remind us what mediocre looks like, that's on them.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
12 comments:
Yes - but TPM will claim their standards and rules are not equal - they are but superior ( first nation status).
I now think the problem is less radical Maori - rather caused by stupid, impressionable and apathetic NZers.
Jerry Brownlee should have stamped on this type of behavior from the start. As he didn't, it only encouraged the children in the Maori Party to continually push the boundaries of what they could get away with, to the applause of their equally childish supporters.
Most parents learn this fairly early on.
Surely Brownlee has to go - no mojo.
So true should have disciplined them at the start
Contempt of Court may result in a sentence of imprisonment. Since Parliament is considered, the highest court why should these offenders not be given jail time?
The lack of a vote today demonstrates that standards really don't matter.
Come back Mallard - all is forgiven!
About as much use as tits on a boar.
The aim today was to deflect attention from possible violence outside Parliament .The ban matter has been pushed to early June - then a special committee will consider the " tikanga" aspects of the whole incident. No ban will happen. Appeasement again . NZ is in deep trouble.
Could we expect a team of English MPs in the House of Commons to go onto the floor of the house and perform an exhibition of Morris Dancing or for some Scottish MPs to start up a Highland Fling. It would look utterly ridiculous in the formal setting of a parliament. As does the haka in the NZ parliament. Put aside my opinion that the haka is inappropriate in ALL settings. The haka is absolutely out of its time and serves no useful purpose anywhere. I cannot believe that Hipkins is saying haka etc. has a place in parliament. Send the haka back to the marae and keep it there.
.... do not matter for a privileged group.
It was with great relief to witness Assistant Speaker Greg O'Connor give Willie Jackson his marching orders from Parliament, after he refused to be seated and called "who do you think you are?" to the Speaker, like a petulant child.
Winston Peters rightly commented on X, "This is not democracy. These are the seeds of anarchy.
We have MPs wearing t-shirts and sneakers, hats and, sunglasses and jerseys and even occasionally barefooted."
The seeds of anarchy have been sown and will bear bitter fruit.
For migrant departures in the January 2025 year, citizens of New Zealand were the largest group, with 69,200 departures; our best and brightest can see the writing on the wall as New Zealand declines on every front, from social cohesion, to educational standards, teaching standards, health, justice, parenting, the list goes on. How long before open revolt? It has already begun, at the highest level.
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