Robertson Grant: Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRobertson Grant: Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10275. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]GRANT ROBERTSON (Deputy Leader—Labour): There are two matters to deal with here: the title and obviously the commencement date of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill. I shall begin with the title because it really does sum up what an absolute shambles of a portfolio Simon Bridges has: the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill. The Act is not even in force yet and my colleague Maryan Street will tell me—24 May is that right—that 24 May is when the Crown Minerals Amendment Act will come into force. We now have an amendment bill. As has been noted despite the fact that the rest of the world has moved on to Friday 17 May in this Chamber it is still 16 May. It is still possible for the Hurricanes to beat the Chiefs because it is still Thursday and not Friday which is when they lose—that is for Sue Moroney. It is possible that this bill will in fact manage to pass before the bill that it amends actually comes into force. That is an extraordinary stuff-up. So if I was giving this bill a title it would actually be called the “Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Simon Bridges’ Stuff-up Amendment Bill” because that is the honest truth. We do not want to have a go at Simon Bridges. He is such a friendly chap. He is always saying nice things about the Labour Party. But today is the opportunity to tell the truth and the truth is that Simon Bridges has stuffed up and that should be included in the title. Simon Bridges should actually take some responsibility for the fact that this legislation has gone wrong.There is an alternative title for it here. That could be the “Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Golden Age of Government Amendment Bill” in honour of the Attorney-General because it is the golden age of Government to come to this House and push legislation through. That is this Government’s golden age—pushing legislation through under urgency selling off laws to corporates. That is the golden age of this Government the golden age of democracy brought to you by an Attorney-General who will not even stand up in this Chamber and take a call about a bill that limits the right of New Zealanders to protest. That is the Attorney-General’s responsibility to this House. It is to come to this House and actually defend the rights of New Zealanders but he fails—he fails. Chris Finlayson has failed and we could include Simon Bridges’ and Chris Finlayson’s failure in the title of this bill.But if we look at the commencement issue we really do have a major issue—[Interruption] Sorry? What was that?Hon Christopher Finlayson: Grow up. Don’t be such a juvenile.GRANT ROBERTSON: A juvenile. Right apparently I am a juvenile. That is an interesting statement to come from a man who spent all day on Twitter making ridiculous comments trying to match Judith Collins for the verbosity and irrelevance of his tweets. He calls me juvenile. He should actually take a look at the Minister in the chair the Minister of Energy and Resources—a boy doing a woman’s job as Maryan Street said before—because if it was being done by this side the Minister of Energy and Resources would be Moana Mackey and we would not have these problems. Instead we have the boy wonder in the chair unable to speak it would seem this evening. He has lost the power of speech. He has to turn it over to Chris Finlayson to talk about stiff cheese for the evening. That is the best we have had from the National Party tonight. The only intervention on theHansard tonight on this bill from the National Party is Mr Finlayson saying “Stiff cheese.” He has not even identified what kind of cheese yet—that is all it is.This bill is an absolute disaster for democracy. That could be in the title as well. We could call it the “Disaster for Democracy Bill”. We could certainly call it the “Simon Bridges’ Stuff-up Bill”. We could certainly call it the “Chris Finlayson’s Golden Age of Democracy Bill”. But what it should not be called is a bill that amends an Act that has not even come into force yet. [Interruption] Sorry Mr Coleman—a contribution?Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman: I said it’s 3 minutes till your midnight feast.GRANT ROBERTSON: Jonathan Coleman makes it. The National Party now has two contributions. He will be able to blow cigar smoke into someone’s face in 3 minutes’ time. That is what we will get from Jonathan Coleman. His greatest contribution to New Zealand politics is to stand up there “The Maestro” the man who delivered Mt Albert to Labour with every single thing he did—Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. It is now 2 minutes until his midnight feast.GRANT ROBERTSON: Jonathan Coleman thinks that if he tells a joke again it will be funny but it is not. He is the man who led Melissa Lee on her triumphant march through Mt Albert—magnificent strategist that Jonathan Coleman is for the National Party. He has got himself on theHansard tonight along with Chris Finlayson and still no member of the National Party has got up—