Faafoi Kris: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFaafoi Kris: General Debate[Sitting date: 13 April 2016. Volume:713;Page:10475. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I would like to begin my general debate speech by thanking someone and that is the Hon Bill English. I would like to thank him for writing the latest chapter in the three-part saga of National called “Arrogant and Out of Touch”. We now know from the comments—I would like to thank Iain Lees-Galloway—that Mr English made at the Feilding Federated Farmers meeting last Friday what National really thinks about New Zealanders. Usually we get positive comments from the Government like “We are backing New Zealanders. We back them. We don’t care what the Labour Party says; we back New Zealanders to be the best that they can possibly be.”But when National members are behind closed doors talking to their mates—and Bill English has got form in getting caught telling what he really thinks about New Zealanders—we find out what National really thinks about New Zealanders. What did Mr English say about young males to the Federated Farmers in Feilding last Friday? He said they were “pretty damned hopeless”. He said we need to have a little bit more immigration at the moment because Kiwis in general—so not just males—are “pretty damned hopeless”. So that is what National thinks behind closed doors. When the camera is out and the microphones are out those members say “We are backing New Zealanders so they can do the best for New Zealand.” but when they go to their caucus room and they have their little party meetings around New Zealand they think New Zealanders are “pretty damned hopeless”.Well I have got some news for the Minister of Finance. For 15 to 19-year-old males what is the unemployment rate? It is 23 percent. The unemployment rate for young males aged 20 to 24 is 9.3 percent. What is our national average? It is 5.3 percent. So it is our young males more than anyone who are struggling to find jobs and what is the message that we get from this arrogant and out-of-touch Government? It is that young males are “pretty damned hopeless”. Well if those people out there can hear the message that this Government has got for them they will find out that this Government has been pretty damned hopeless at getting them the job opportunities that they need.This is not a Government that is working for those “pretty damned hopeless” males out there. If it did its job and was not so damned hopeless those people would have jobs. They would have the education to make sure they could get the jobs that New Zealanders need. That is the kind of arrogant and out-of-touch Government that we have got when those members talk behind closed doors of New Zealanders who may have voted for them but will seriously reconsider their vote now. Those members already think that those young men out there are “pretty damned hopeless”. Those are the kinds of people that I have got in my electorate who are desperate to find a job. And yes in one respect they have not got any hope. They are not hopeless; they do not have any hope in this Government to do a decent enough job to get them a job. That is what this Government really thinks about New Zealanders.I would like to know what else those members are saying behind closed doors about other sections of New Zealand because we have now found out what Bill English really thinks of young males in New Zealand. He got caught out telling what he really thinks about New Zealanders. There is one story in front of a camera and in front of a microphone and another story when those members are talking to their mates. So this is an arrogant and out-of-touch Government and that is the latest chapter in a very long saga.We got another episode of arrogance this week when the Prime Minister said he will not release his tax records. [Interruption] I will put my leader’s credibility over the credibility of your Prime Minister every day because this is a Prime Minister who has got a loose relationship with the truth. Let us hear what he said about his Tranz Rail shares back in 2008. When John Key was asked how many shares exactly he and his family had in Tranz Rail he said it was 50000 at the maximum. Sometimes it was 20000 and sometimes it was 50000. He was asked whether he personally bought 50000 Tranz Rail shares in 2003 and sold them off. He said: “Actually maybe 100000 from memory sometimes 50000 sometimes 100000 yep.” When he was asked whether it was an issue that he should be clear about he said: “Yeah sorry there was 100000 in total.” That was our Prime Minister talking about his own personal affairs and his shares. Within the space of 30 seconds he went from one story to another.I think we are going to see that with the Prime Minister around his affairs and trusts issues at the moment. Why will he not front up and tell the people of New Zealand like our leader has all the details around his tax? Why is he not “manning up” as those people on the other side of the House have said and telling us the story of his own tax details? Why will he not? Because we know that in the past he has got form—Iain Lees-Galloway: If he’s got nothing to hide he’s got nothing to fear.KRIS FAAFOI: That is right. What was the line when the Government Communications Security Bureau legislation was going through?Iain Lees-Galloway: If you’ve got nothing to hide you’ve got nothing fear.KRIS FAAFOI: Nothing to hide nothing to fear. So it is a very simple request to the Prime Minister: if you have got nothing to hide show us your tax details.