Jones Shane: Human Rights (One Law For All) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
Jones Shane: Human Rights (One Law For All) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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SHANE JONES (Labour) 
: 
 Kia ora Mr Speaker. Tena tatou katoa. I begin this brief contribution by reciting a very apposite Maori phrase and with your forbearance I will get the translator to give a translation. E rerengia ano ona ngutu e te honi otira he waiu ke no te ngarara. Karia nei nga rei ka puta ka horomia te tangata 
[ 
His lips are dripping with honey but it is the saliva of a creature instead. The tusks had not even appeared and the man was swallowed up 
.] 
Hon Member 
: Tell us; reveal all. 
SHANE JONES 
: Well I will give members the Ngapuhi version then. Mr Hide has returned. I must acknowledge that he has returned from a period of absence. As we said today in the Finance and Expenditure Committee his physical appearance has vastly improved since he left this place. 
Hon Clayton Cosgrove 
: Oh come on! 
SHANE JONES 
: No I must say that because a number of us looked enviously at him—but that is not to say that the body/mind index has changed. 
However the proverb refers to the fact that the lips are covered in honey but it is the milk of the taniwha that waits to gobble an unsuspecting prey. By using slogans Rodney Hide has this evening really brought a simplistic set of terms to the House designed unfortunately to worsen a situation rather than to overcome one of the main challenges facing us in Aotearoa. Of course we greet what he says in relation to everyone having a brilliant opportunity to achieve their potential in Aotearoa without cavil. However the notion that the plurality of cultures of peoples in Aotearoa should be shoe-horned into one particular conduit one framework is something I cannot agree with. Consequently as Dr Cullen has said we will not be voting for this bill. 
Our society is premised on diversity. Yes we have the Treaty of Waitangi and that accords a place of primacy to the tangata whenua. But beyond that Aotearoa is becoming more pluralistic and more diverse. The State ought to continue to enjoy an exclusive monopoly over its ability to legitimise the use of power and the manner in which it intervenes to effect changes in the status and fortunes of the different groups that make up society. 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: You can do better than that! 
SHANE JONES 
: The difficulty for our friends from National is that as a consequence of the Orewa speech they will be incapable of independent analysis until they sack their leader. It is unfortunate that they will join with Rodney Hide in supporting this bill but this bill will not capture the attention of the vast majority of New Zealanders in any supportive sense. This recipe was tried—was trotted around the extent of the four winds—during the election but people did not buy it. People do not want us to go backwards into an insipid type of existence whereby Maori are marginalised and overlooked. In fact the logical conclusion of what Mr Hide’s bill means is that the very force that his colleague was serving in recently will not be able to use the words Ngai Tumatauenga and will have to strip the utilisation of the Maori motif from its uniform which gives it an international cachet an international reputation. Diversity and pluralism must prevail; this bill must fall. Kia ora tatou.