Why?

National Party leader John Key wants to take a more ethnically diverse range of MPs into the next election and is set to make the topic a priority when the party's list rankings are decided next year.

Any thoughts for merit? This is collectivist claptrap. Exactly the type of idea the Left would embrace. Don't forget women, John. And I don't think you've got a lesbian yet, or a Muslim, or a dope smoker. All groups needing representation in a special interests, what's-in-it-for-me parliament.

The more things change the more they stay the same.