Peters WinstonRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): The National Party brought in the Resource Management Act (RMA) but you would not think so today. This Minister Nick Smith and his colleagues have had 8 years to modernise it but you would not think so today. This Minister believes that every dysfunction in our economy and our society is due to the ineffectiveness of the outmoded RMA. The fact that of course he could not mention the massive demand from offshore immigration running at record levels—no he had to come up with some lousy excuse that it is all to do with the RMA. Then he came up with a whole lot of red herrings which a lot of people know to be red herrings because they are not in disagreement with him but he never mentioned what he told everybody when he first saw the shape of this former legislation which was that it was brownmail"—that it was "brownmail".I wrote to every MP in the National Party this morning and appealed to them as fellow New Zealanders to grasp this last chance to step back from a separatist abyss. This country's very future is on the line in this matter and on this matter only they the National Party members—those members of Parliament from all around this country who say one thing in their electorates and something else here in Parliament—only they now have the power to do what is right for the entire country and that is to suspend this bill's passage go back and fix it up and that is why I restate New Zealand First's commitment to support comprehensive RMA reform so long as that reform is based on the principle of one law for all.I am sick of hearing Māori members and cultural fellow-travellers in this Parliament talking about the condition of Māori when in places like Murupara and Kaikohe and Kawakawa no Māori ever has referred to these matters. No they are concerned about the fundamental four things like housing health education and First World jobs.Marama Fox: Not true.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Marama Fox if you knew anything about it yourself then the vote of the Māori Party would not be so pathetic. It cannot even get 1 percent of the vote. Here is a tip-over member. She has the arrogance to come here—been here 5 minutes expert on everything. Let me tell you what is going to happen at the next election. Not what happened on the stupid TV ONE Colmar Brunton poll that says the Māori Party is on 4 percent—no no we are straight back to 0.7 percent. That is the latest poll I saw and it will get worse.The second thing is that what we have got here is an attempt at parallel government—two forms of government written into our law because the Māori Party is trying to win through legislation what it cannot get on the ballot box either in the general seats or the party vote or for that matter the Māori seats—for that matter the Māori seats.Marama Fox: That's what happens when you're at the table.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh yes the Māori Party is at the table they say. Oh yes I have seen that before. I have seen people walk into the palace. I have seen people walk into the palace sup with the King and the next day for their people it is the pie cart. That is Marama Fox.Marama Fox: That was you.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: She has got some idea—see there is the Māoriness of Marama Fox. She is so Māori she thinks shouting and interjecting is the Māori way of behaving. No it is not. Ms Fox go on to the marae and you will hear one thing and it is basically this—it is basically this: "When the hen starts crowing wring its neck." That is the Māori way. What Māoridom really means is this: that you would expect people to hear the other party out.Marama Fox: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh oh! OK here we go. [Interruption] She cannot take it.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! A point of order has been called and I am going to warn Craig Foss that when we are in this process he zips it up in the vernacular.Marama Fox: I believe that what I just heard was nothing short of a threat a threat that if you speak too much—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): No no the member will resume her seat. I think we are all listening and we all understood and I regard that point of order as being frivolous.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Thank you Mr Chairperson. This planning is based on the colour of one's skin—or dare I say it looking at some people who claim to be Māori not the colour of their skin but the ability to even to the fraction of 1/512 say that they have got a Māori ancestor. This is a disaster. It is a disaster because the condition social and economic of Māori deserves far better than this. I know that there are a handful of elite the "bro-rocracy" who have come to this Parliament making all sorts of demands and yet those same people cannot even fill a hall anywhere in any town in this country. They cannot fill one hall anywhere in any town in this country.Be in no doubt that planning and environmental law just like our judicial system must be colour-blind. My party New Zealand First refuses to support separatism as this appalling piece of legislation represents because it is such a retrograde step. For goodness' sake if you watch that great civil rights series in the United States called Eyes on the Prize every black person in the civil rights movement wanted to break down the walls to white institutions not start their own. That is why they ended up with a black President before anybody thought it was possible but they never took their eyes off the prize that equality is born of effort and sacrifice and the best possible education and employment that any society can deliver. It is not based on different rules based on the skin and ancestry.So just where has National's "road to Ngāruawāhia" conversion into the European branch of the Māori Party come from? How did that happen? Marama Fox: Oh my God.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On this road to Damascus or Ngāruawāhia what happened here? "Oh my God." she says. I will tell you what when you say "Oh my God."—how many Māori have demanded a separate planning system? She cannot answer. Not a whisper not a word. Not a syllable not a sound. She gets asked the most basic of questions; she cannot answer. What research have members here today done with Māori that they want more separatism? Last year at another rotary club in Ōrewa I warned what the National Government was doing and that was kowtowing to the Māori Party's "brownmail". Here we are now. This most accident-prone of Ministers Nick Smith described that speech as "typical Winston Peters mischief making". He of course coined the phrase about this. "Brownmailing" he called it but all of a sudden he is happy with that for reasons I cannot understand and nor can hundreds of thousands of formerly National voters. Why Mr Smith are you selling these people out? Why Mr Smith are you going down the road with Marama Fox who has been here 5 minutes and cannot get anybody in a telephone booth to follow what she thinks—cannot get a telephone booth full to follow what she thinks?Decisions made by councils are going to be overridden and bearing in mind Mr Smith described my warnings last year as mischief what did we learn on 6 March just another day that will live in democratic infamy in this country? Iwi will be given approval rights in resource consents and the ongoing monitoring of consents once they are issued. This is to be embedded within the National Government's Resource Legislation Amendment Bill right now as "Mana Whakahono a Rohe: Iwi Participation Arrangements"—just like that. So an unelected "bro-rocracy" will get a say not just on district unitary and regional plans but on consents and compliance too and every year the same process will be followed by them. Here is one hint for the future. Say a person has got a farm or a business in Auckland. They need to apply for a new discharge consent. Auckland Council gives them the tick but then one or more of the 13 Auckland iwi—yes apparently now we have got a baker's dozen of iwi in Auckland—who also need to be consulted start making noises that they will object. The farmer meets with them and they demand mitigation. What does "mitigation" mean? Well you can read that as a koha for consent—a koha for consent. That is "brownmail". And then every year regular as clockwork council inspections are followed by 13 iwi inspections. True or false? It is a fact.Hon Dr Nick Smith: False.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: It is in the law. It is written there. These inspections become nothing more than a protection racket the Mafioso would be proud of and it is fully totally—if this bill goes through—legal. Mr Smith if this bill passes after 23 September this year we in New Zealand First are going to repeal it. Get that clear right now. Whether you are an overblown Minister or some planning officer downtown or some planning lawyer downtown there is going to be a vortex and a limbo coming right now if this bill passes because we intend to repeal it and repeal it we will. This is a dystopian future National is creating through its seriously flawed Resource Legislation Amendment Bill. By taking the "k" out of "kiwi" National used to stand for something but not now—not with 13 layers of a new bureaucracy being added to the Auckland region alone. As for the business of water—he uses every lousy diversion and red herring to try to excuse his appalling behaviour as a Minister. I know that the National members on the backbenches and elsewhere think they should get rid of this albatross and now. But he is the Prime Minister's mate. So they are both going to go down. That is the consequence Mr Smith. I know something—I was campaigning for that member back in 1990. Try to explain why a 23-year-old should get into Parliament. What a waste of time—[Bell rung] Mr Chair can I just finish off my speech?The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): The member has had two calls.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Yeah but there is a lot of enthusiasm for this message Mr Chair.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): The member can have another go later. You are only allowed two at a time according to the Standing Orders."