Back at the community centre, Minister Pauline Stewart believes its time that her local board had more ethnic representation.

Described as a "comprehensive initiative to increase racial and ethnic representation in ballet and diversify America's ballet companies."

Mr Bridges admitted the conversation was "blunt", but said National had a goal of better ethnic representation in Parliament.

More than 11,000 speaking characters were analyzed for gender, racial and ethnic representation and LGBT status.

The pace of change for each organisation represents the an average of the year-on-year percentage change in minority ethnic representation in this time period.

Lynda Chanwai-Earle is at parliament in Wellington to suss out ethnic representation amongst the new MPs and meet New Zealand's first ever former-refugee MP.

Rightly, there is an overdue focus on ethnic representation -no presenter from a minority background figures in the top end of the pay scale.

Ethnic representation included 35 percent White, 33 percent Black, and 32 percent other - mostly Latino.