A newly installed gender-busting Santa Claus is on display at Auckland's Ponsonby Central.
Dressed in fish-net stockings, holding a bag and umbrella, this jolly statue pushes the stereotype of the traditional male Santa Claus.
In a touch of luck, the statue went up the same week Simon Bridges created controversy by saying: "Mary Poppins is a woman, Santa Claus is a man. That's how it should be."
"You guys this morning are telling me that man didn't walk on the moon, now you're telling me Santa's a woman - I just want a few things I can believe in," Bridges told The AM Show.
![The team at Ponsonby Central and Blunt umbrellas created the Mary Poppins themed St Nick in a tongue in cheek response to Simon Bridges. Photo / Radlab](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/XYPOSAFWZ3NPE2UDQGCDQ745RI.jpg?auth=02d7930ad6436f18c9243418725c30cbb08e0101a5d44beda852ab3eb78a722e&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)