Tamihere John: General Debates 
Tamihere John: General Debates 
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Hon JOHN TAMIHERE (Minister of Youth Affairs) 
: 
 It is always a joy to stand up after one of  
Dad’s Army’s 
 boys who has been prattling on and having a say. The wonderful thing about his leader of course is that he has the ability to go out into mainstream Kiwidom and tell Kiwis how to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to joining the New Zealand First Party. He is a great guided-tour expert! 
I want to take up the challenge issued by the little fella from Levin the member of no fixed abode—the shoe salesman—about rorts and people stepping back from things. Over there we have one of the biggest bunches of bankrupt bozos— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member will stand withdraw and apologise. I refer him to Standing Order 117 “Personal reflections”. 
Hon JOHN TAMIHERE 
: I withdraw and apologise. To get back to the well-paid beneficiaries over there they are the best-paid beneficiaries— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member will apologise. That was a personal reflection again on other members. 
Hon JOHN TAMIHERE 
: I withdraw and apologise. 
Hon Roger Sowry 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I wonder how much leeway there is. There have been times in the past when this Minister’s speeches have been terminated because he has continually strayed outside the Standing Orders. I wonder how much leniency you will give him this time before you take that action. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Under Speaker’s ruling 38/1 leeway is given to respond to the previous speaker. The Minister has had the opportunity to do that now and I ask him to come to the point. 
Hon Dr Nick Smith 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The Minister made so many unparliamentary remarks. I ask that he withdraw and apologise also in respect of the unparliamentary remark be made about Mr Dail Jones when he opened his speech. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member cannot ask on behalf of someone else. 
Hon JOHN TAMIHERE 
: The National Party which stands on being the party of great integrity says things on its billboards like: “National will see that the coastline and the beaches of New Zealand remain in the hands of all New Zealanders.” It will expropriate nationalise and socialise. How can a National Party of the great old free-enterprise model stand on that? How can a caucus of National Party members sign off on that and give that mandate to their leader? The National Party leader said in the debate on the Queen’s Chain Protection Bill that “landowners are starting to get interested in the controversy because they are not that impressed by the public access lobbyists who assert to them that members of the public have the right to go anywhere they like within 20 metres of the waterway.” That is simply not the case. 
 The leader of that party knew 7 years ago when he made that speech recorded in  
Hansard 
 Volume 358 at page 18023 that when he went out to tell Kiwis—mislead them—he was going to socialise nationalise and confiscate private property rights it would be OK but: “But only if you’re a Maori. We’ll take Maori rights but not my Pakeha mate’s.” This is where the debate is fair and square. How crass and how low! How can a National 
Party caucus with any backbone—unlike those jellyfish over there—sign off on that? They cannot possibly. They did though. How dare Mr Simon Powers and Mr John Key the new breed sign up to such a shameful policy. These are the politics of divide and rule the politics of envy. How dare they divide a nation! They have a greed and a lust for the Treasury benches and they will do anything to destroy the fabric of a nation going forward. There is only one party one Government that will sort this and fix it and it is the Labour Party in Government. Even the honourable Dr Wayne Mapp has opined absolutely differently and in contradistinction—he is one of the few honest ones—to the so-called leader for no other reason than he actually owns some foreshore. He will own up to that as well. It is all about vested interest when it comes to the National Party boys. It has nothing to do with rights and nothing to do with due process. 
Maori have used the courts. Maori have not stormed over everybody else’s rights. These rights need to be explored and we will uphold the rule of law. We are not going to walk over other people’s land just storming it and taking it. What sort of a leadership is that? It merely cooks up the people in Nelson for all the wrong reasons. We know how to build a nation; they know how to destroy it. They know how to wreck it all for the lust of the Treasury benches all for greed and vested interest. It is absolutely disgraceful politics. We need to continue to bang on about it. We need to continue to point it out because as a nation going forward we have so much potential to unleash and we do not need it stymied and suppressed by those members putting out ugly envious gutter politics. 
This is the worst the lowest that a Tory party has ever stooped to. It is using a race card. The National Party used to talk about rights; it now talks about race. Over on this side of the House we talk about rights. We are the true face of New Zealand. Members opposite are ageing over 50-somethings. We hear about rorts. A good example of a rort in the National Party is the “member for the Casablanca Night Clubs” the “member for the Camel Jockeys” and the “member for Monaco”. The “very part-time member for Remuera” sits over there. What a rort—yet another one! It just goes on and on with those people. It is all about desperate little men and vested interest and greed. We have had enough. Those members need to be identified for their politics of prejudice and race. It has nothing to do with rights. We need to explore it.