{"id":28231,"date":"2021-02-11T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/new-zealand-male-mps-no-longer-have-to-wear-ties-after-maori-mp-ejected"},"modified":"2021-02-11T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T23:38:51","slug":"new-zealand-male-mps-no-longer-have-to-wear-ties-after-maori-mp-ejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28231","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand male MPs no longer have to wear ties after M\u0101ori MP ejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker says ties will not be required \u2018appropriate business attire\u2019 despite a committee meeting failing to reach a consensus <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s male MPs will no longer be required to wear ties in parliament, following a row over the item of clothing that involved the speaker ejecting M\u0101ori party co-leader Rawiri Waititi from the chamber for refusing to wear one.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand parliament speaker Trevor Mallard made the announcement after a meeting on Wednesday of the standing orders committee held to discuss the issue and hear a submission from the M\u0101ori party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/new-zealand-male-mps-no-longer-have-to-wear-ties-after-maori-mp-ejected\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker says ties will not be required \u2018appropriate business attire\u2019 despite a committee meeting failing to reach a consensus New Zealand\u2019s male MPs will no longer be required to wear ties in parliament, following a row over the item of clothing that i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions\/28236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}