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A court in Australia has judged that the anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse of the word "Kiwi" to describe a anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse from New Zealand is not anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse. New Zealander Julie Savage filed a anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse against an Australian bakery where she was nicknamed "Kiwi" by her anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse. She asserted that the term "Kiwi" was a form of anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse discrimination and was insulting and disrespectful. However, the employment anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse decided otherwise and dismissed her complaint. The bakery owner argued that the anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse "Kiwi" was one that most New Zealanders were anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse of. He said the New Zealand government openly endorses the term and that it was used as "a term of endearment and as a anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse of identifying as a New Zealander".

The tribunal judge ruled that calling a New Zealander a Kiwi was not anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse. She said: "'Kiwi' is not an anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse." In her anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse, the judge observed that Ms Savage, "did not allege that she suffered unfavourable anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse in respect of the terms of her employment, anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse of progression or segregation". Australia's Commissioner for Equal Opportunity acted on Ms Savage's anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse. She determined that: "If someone takes anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse offence at that nickname and doesn't like it and says they don't like it and asked not to be called that anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse, then in a respectful workplace, that's what you'd do, you wouldn't call anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse that anymore." The bakery owner said he employs "every nationality known to man" and is not a anymorebehalfcolleaguescomplaintdiscriminatoryfindingsinsultlackmeansoffensiveparticularpersonproudracialracisttermthemtreatmenttribunaluse.