The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is seeking a Principal DEI Advisor who understands that the Bank is like Tāne Mahuta, the God of the Forest. Should be a breeze in today’s climate.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is seeking a Principal DEI Advisor who understands that the Bank is like Tāne Mahuta, the God of the Forest. Should be a breeze in today’s climate.
I had no idea that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand was no longer a relatively august institution, which took its management of NZ’s financial systems seriously. I realised it wouldn’t be completely unpenetrated by ‘progressive correctness’, because any workplace which hires university graduates will get that brought in with them. However, I didn’t expect to find that the Bank now likened itself to Tāne Māhuta, the God of the Forest.
Matauranga Maori incorporated for another perspective is of interest but imposed as tikanga on a financial system which supposedly is an advisor to bodies on keeping equity alive in the market and prudent governmental fiscal management, is likely to be at the very least a retrograde and a misleading move. Who will be on the interview panel...hmm I pick Dame Margaret Mutu, Chloe S and Grant Robertson I guess!
Snigger. Did noone stop to think that likening themselves to something which is 1. hollow and 2. rotten to the core (not a criticism it just happens to old kauri trees) was perhaps not the best simile? They don't need a diversity and inclusion officer; they need a botanist.
FFS Katrina, what next? They will have no problem finding someone for this job unfortunately. I LOVED your new hapu- brilliant. There will be an awful lot of money going under mattresses if you have to perform a karakia before you can access your own money using an ATM. Here are some tips the new Reserve Bank “thought leadership" person may want to utilise: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/how-to-establish-a-new-reality-aka
Thanks Katrina. Michael Reddell has written of this in his blog Croaking Cassandra historically so this latest move by the RBNZ is consistent with the trend. The board is padded with woke folks. Orr demands fealty so those chaffing at the culture have left the bank since his time as governor.
I'm sorry, but I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Katrina, this is both the funniest and saddest and most frustrating thing you've written yet, I love it, and omg. "The Reserve Bank is like Tāne Māhuta". Will New Zealanders please, for the love of all things holy, get a grip!!! The Reserve Bank is not like ANY KIND OF GOD, especially not of the Forest! It's a BANK. Traditionally, not Friends of the Forest. This is the desperate thrashings of a people who are mentally ill, desperately searching for meaning, snatching greedily at the nearest culture to hand like drowning men. The bankers know, deep down, that the majority of their investments are in things like mining, and deep sea drilling, and oil, and coal, and pharma, and animal testing and totalitarian animal farming. No wonder they're pretending to represent Tāne Māhuta. How else are they going to sleep at night? Way back, when the first botanists arrived in the 1700's, there was an evening where a Māori man was asked to identify 300 different species. He named them all. Suspicious, the botanists found another Māori man, the following evening, and he gave them the same names, with only a handful of dialectical differences - but the same names. These people at the Reserve Bank, talking this offensive nonsense, they couldn't identify ten trees in the forest and tell you their story if you took them out into the bush and offered them all the gold bars in the world. I'd be surprised if they all knew the Christmas song "Pukeko in a Ponga Tree', to be honest.
I can't wait until the Reserve Bank is taken over by a Workers' Government and becomes the Workers' Bank. Then we will all understand that workers are a class, which includes women and a sex-class, and not an identity.
Matauranga Maori incorporated for another perspective is of interest but imposed as tikanga on a financial system which supposedly is an advisor to bodies on keeping equity alive in the market and prudent governmental fiscal management, is likely to be at the very least a retrograde and a misleading move. Who will be on the interview panel...hmm I pick Dame Margaret Mutu, Chloe S and Grant Robertson I guess!
Snigger. Did noone stop to think that likening themselves to something which is 1. hollow and 2. rotten to the core (not a criticism it just happens to old kauri trees) was perhaps not the best simile? They don't need a diversity and inclusion officer; they need a botanist.
FFS Katrina, what next? They will have no problem finding someone for this job unfortunately. I LOVED your new hapu- brilliant. There will be an awful lot of money going under mattresses if you have to perform a karakia before you can access your own money using an ATM. Here are some tips the new Reserve Bank “thought leadership" person may want to utilise: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/how-to-establish-a-new-reality-aka
If the Reserve Bank could print Kauri trees as easily as they print money, New Zealand would be a lot better off.
Thanks Katrina. Michael Reddell has written of this in his blog Croaking Cassandra historically so this latest move by the RBNZ is consistent with the trend. The board is padded with woke folks. Orr demands fealty so those chaffing at the culture have left the bank since his time as governor.
I'm sorry, but I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Katrina, this is both the funniest and saddest and most frustrating thing you've written yet, I love it, and omg. "The Reserve Bank is like Tāne Māhuta". Will New Zealanders please, for the love of all things holy, get a grip!!! The Reserve Bank is not like ANY KIND OF GOD, especially not of the Forest! It's a BANK. Traditionally, not Friends of the Forest. This is the desperate thrashings of a people who are mentally ill, desperately searching for meaning, snatching greedily at the nearest culture to hand like drowning men. The bankers know, deep down, that the majority of their investments are in things like mining, and deep sea drilling, and oil, and coal, and pharma, and animal testing and totalitarian animal farming. No wonder they're pretending to represent Tāne Māhuta. How else are they going to sleep at night? Way back, when the first botanists arrived in the 1700's, there was an evening where a Māori man was asked to identify 300 different species. He named them all. Suspicious, the botanists found another Māori man, the following evening, and he gave them the same names, with only a handful of dialectical differences - but the same names. These people at the Reserve Bank, talking this offensive nonsense, they couldn't identify ten trees in the forest and tell you their story if you took them out into the bush and offered them all the gold bars in the world. I'd be surprised if they all knew the Christmas song "Pukeko in a Ponga Tree', to be honest.
The vast majority of us who work for a wage or salary.
I can't wait until the Reserve Bank is taken over by a Workers' Government and becomes the Workers' Bank. Then we will all understand that workers are a class, which includes women and a sex-class, and not an identity.