Talk:Waka-jumping

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As this article needs to be a worldwide view I think the line "As the actions of the Progressive Party in 2002 showed, parties can still find ways around such law." needs expanding Brian | (Talk) 07:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the information about Donna Awatere Huatas removal from Parliament needs to be added, as it was effected by the Electoral Integrity Act - which shows that MPs can't always get around it. --Lholden 07:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Added information on Donna Awatere Huatas removal and legal challenges to the Act.--wikicharlie23 09:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article could be improved by cross referring to "party switching" and linking to the page on party switching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_switching. That page has a NZ section and cross refers back to the waka jumping page. Any ideas where best to put it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnackal (talk • contribs) 09:26, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Dunne[edit]

Is it fair to list Peter Dunne as waka-jumper for going from Future NZ to United to United Future? It wasn't really a case of him leaving one party and joining another, but rather that in each case the party merged with another. His move from Labour to Future NZ seems like a classic waka-jump, though. Thoughts? Robyn2000 (talk) 03:22, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Schwede 66 07:00, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Have removed the United to United Future part as that was just a party rename, however I think leaving his Future NZ party to then join United instead qualifies as a waka-jump. Kiwichris (talk) 08:30, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology[edit]

The article says: 'The term waka-jumping is a variant on the phrase "jumping ship".' without citation. This doesn't seem right. Jumping ship means abandoning ship and swimming to land, whereas waka jumping is jumping from one waka to another. Wiktionary in the linguistics sense defines "variant" as: "One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function." As waka-jumping does not serve the same meaning or function as jumping ship, and is not close to the same meaning, we shouldn't call it a variant. I propose deleting it. If there were a wikipedia page on jumping ship we could say "This differs from the concept of 'jumping ship', involving a return to land." and link to that, but there isn't. Any other ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnackal (talk • contribs) 09:18, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is it perhaps related to waka hurdling? Jumping waka canoes over wooden hurdles for sport? See Draft:Waka hurdling. FloridaArmy (talk) 23:38, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Legislation passed in 2018 but article says it is still in committee[edit]

For discussion and references, please see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 June 19#Party switching and crossing the floor and Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 June 22#NZ parliamentary bills (particularly my comments here: [1]). Mathew5000 (talk) 03:58, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]