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'Degrading': Winston Peters says Parliament's standards have been 'debased'

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Publish Date
Fri, 16 May 2025, 8:00am
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'Degrading': Winston Peters says Parliament's standards have been 'debased'

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九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 16 May 2025, 8:00am

Winston Peters says behaviour in Parliament has become degrading. 

It comes after a recommendation three Te Pati M膩ori MPs be suspended for their haka in the house, and Minister Brooke van Velden said the c-word. 

Yesterday he launched a broadside on X against the actions taken in Parliament, saying the House of Representatives has become a House of Chaos. 

The Deputy Prime Minister told Mike Hosking standards have slipped, and it's the Speaker's job to rein it in. 

He says the rot started under former Speaker Trevor Mallard, when he loosened dress standards. 

鈥淎s Steven Maharey, the former MP and Minister from Palmerston North said, once you let down dress and other standards, everything else will be let down as well and to be debased 鈥 and that鈥檚 exactly what鈥檚 happened.鈥 

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