Act Party leader David Seymour has called for refugees to be required to sign a "values statement" before being allowed into the country.
"If you're not prepared to sign up, for instance that you believe men and women should be treated equally, you shouldn't come to New Zealand," he said.
What are New Zealand values? According to the wits on Twitter, they include (clockwise from left) hating on Wayne Barnes, warning people about hot pies, Jordan Luck at the local pub, struggling without marmite, Buck Shelford's, ahem, injuries, and blaming foreigners for the housing crisis. Photo: RNZ / supplied / Photosport
On Morning Report this morning, Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse said cultural practices were taken into account in the process of a thorough background check.
"Matters such as polygamy obviously rule them out from a cultural perspective, but after that immigration and security services do their own vetting, in association with their partners, so that as far as we can be, we are satisfied those who are coming are the most in need and are who they say they are," he said.
But who exactly can define "New Zealand values"? The wits on Twitter have given it a good go.
The hashtag #New Zealand Values has now been trending for more than 12 hours.
Some of the Tweets have a political tone.
Others don't limit themselves to New Zealand politics.
Some focus on New Zealand's own race relations.
Many of them are very topical.
And some are less so. But who can forget Marmaggedon?
Some bring up Aotearoa's own cultural quirks.
For a country that can amass thousands of tweets about its values, we're, well, a little insecure.
Some tweets show clear evidence of a lot of screen time.
A lot of New Zealand values seem pretty reckless.
Don't forget the importance of sport.
And food.
And music.
And then there's poor old Hamilton
New Zealand relationships in a nutshell.
The great New Zealand "Big OE."
And don't forget, Aotearoa has three official languages - but there's a whole other one.
Except when it doesn't that is.