Little Andrew: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLittle Andrew: General Debate[Sitting date: 13 April 2016. Volume:713;Page:10466. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Once upon a time they used to say that John Key’s moral compass was broken. It now turns out that he never had one at all. Of course it is no longer just his moral failure; it is the entire moral failure of that National Government and every backbencher who supports it. You see it is not just the Prime Minister any more. Even the Minister of Finance Bill English—this master of small government—cannot face up to the real challenges of young New Zealanders who are desperate for opportunities and to get a job. He just writes them off. This is a dreadful shabby little Government that has nothing to offer the future of New Zealand and New Zealanders.So we now see the real world of John Key being opened up for all of us to see—a world that was never shown to New Zealand until now. Once upon a time we all thought that John Key was this easy-going charming affable sort of leader—a man of the people a man for everyone. But he is not because we know who his friends are we know whom he associates with and we know whom he takes his advice from. It is those who live in that world of enormous of extraordinary of just plain mega-wealth who will do anything that they can—take all the advice that they can from the high-paid lawyers and accountants—to avoid their civic obligations and to avoid paying the taxes that they should pay.We live in the developed world. We are lucky to have a country like many others around the world that has a good developed education system that has a good health system—apart from the slops they serve up around our health system at the moment—that has good roads and that has peace and security. But you see in the history of the last 30 years around the world this community has been growingof people who no longer respect that—who no longer respect the histories of those countries—who are greedy and who see their job and mission in life as being to avoid wherever they can contributing to and taking those steps that help the next generation through. And that is now what drives the Government or at the very least the leader of it. It is hopeless—it is hopeless for it it is hopeless for us and it is hopeless for all of New Zealand.You know most New Zealanders wondered why in their usual kind of genteel way when we heard about the big multinational corporates like Facebook and Google that were coming here with massive trading revenues but paying little or no tax. But the Prime Minister’s response was to say “Well it’s legal.” and shrug his shoulders—there was nothing to see here. Then faced with the reports of this country now playing host to 12000 special trusts that allow the mega-wealthy of the world to avoid paying tax in their own countries he shrugged his shoulders and said: “This is good for us. We get legal fees and accountants’ fees.” And that is all he cares about.The rest of New Zealand was in shock because we thought we had a good reputation. We thought we were a country driven by good healthy wholesome values—that if you work hard you get ahead that you pay your way that you make your contribution and that you help the next generation come through—because that is what we have always stood for. But not that Government. It has sided itself with the world’s greedy and the mega-wealthy who just want to avoid their civic obligations and their civic responsibilities.And it is not just the Prime Minister anymore because you see I have not heard a single National Party MP in the last week or 10 days stand up and say: “This is wrong—this is wrong. We are a better people than this. Where is our morality?”. Not a single National Party MP and they are all tainted. They are all responsible. We are a better country—we can be better. New Zealanders do not want us to be associated with those who will shrug off their civic responsibilities fail in their duty to their home countries and enjoy their greed at the expense of every other citizen who works hard and has to make their way. That is not New Zealand.New Zealanders are looking for real moral leadership and that Government—that party—has demonstrated it is incapable of it because it has a leader who does not know right from wrong. In politics there is a right and there is a wrong and it is in the wrong. We do not want to have tax laws that play to the mega-wealthy of the world at our expense and at the expense of the countries they come from. We can do better—we can do better. New Zealand is a better place not under that Government but it will be better under Labour.