Moroney Sue: General Debate 
Moroney Sue: General Debate 
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SUE MORONEY (Labour) 
: 
 Well it is no wonder that member David Carter is not in Government when he thinks he can bellow his way for effect through a speech that has literally no substance. It is no wonder he is still sitting on the benches opposite. I will try to restore a sense of decorum to this general debate because a lot of allegations have been swirling around the debate here today. 
The public do deserve to know the truth. The public deserve to know about the pamphlets that were sent out prior to the last election. Transparency is needed around the publication of pamphlets and I have some of those pamphlets here. They were circulated around the Cambridge area and the Morrinsville area where I was campaigning as a candidate for Labour at the last election. This one reads: “Health care—who cares?” and it is printed in blue and white which immediately makes one suspicious. “Change the Government” it states “to one that cares—use your party vote.” and there is a big blue tick. Who distributed this pamphlet? 
Well it was distributed by an organisation called “NZATH”. I had never heard of it. Who was “NZATH”? On this pamphlet it says: “New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare”. I had been working in and around the health sector for a long time but I had never heard of that organisation. Immediately that made me suspicious. Who were these people who were asking people with a blue tick to use their party vote correctly on the eve of the election—the “New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare”? It turned out that they were Exclusive Brethren. They were telling people in Cambridge to use their party votes yet they tell their own members not to go and use their party votes. That is not transparent; that is not democracy; that does not sound like bedrock values to me. 
This pamphlet was designed to try to get National in to Government—and it failed. The New Zealand public saw through its $1.2 million secrecy. The funders did not put their names on the pamphlet would not say who they were and made up a name: “New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare”. It is an organisation that no one involved in the health sector had ever heard of— 
Jacqui Dean 
: Back the unions! 
SUE MORONEY 
: Unions put their names on materials they distribute. People can say: “Yeah that’s right—that is from the Council of Trade Unions; we know where that is coming from.” But in relation to the “New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare” guess what? The funders were the Exclusive Brethren an organisation that does not like to give women their rights. I think the women of New Zealand should be deeply concerned about that because that was where the funding for the National Party’s campaign was coming from. 
I have here another pamphlet that was going around at the same time. This one is targeted at senior citizens who are some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Who is this pamphlet from? It is also trying to convince people that their party votes are critical and to use them wisely with a blue tick. Who was this pamphlet distributed by? It also came from the Cambridge area. Well it was distributed by a group called “Fellow New Zealanders Deeply Concerned about the Care of our Elderly”. I had never heard of that organisation either but it turned out—guess what—it was the Exclusive Brethren hiding behind a made-up name and not saying who they were. The pamphlet was targeted at the elderly of this country to try to trick them into voting for a National Government. That is not transparency and we need real transparency before we arrive at the next election. 
I want to issue a challenge because some of these pamphlets came from the area where I live. I am a person from that electorate and I think the voters in that electorate deserve to know what the involvement of the Exclusive Brethren was in the National Party campaign in the Waikato. What was its extent? The only honest thing that I think was done by the Exclusive Brethren in that campaign was that they fronted up—after Don Brash had tried to deny it all—and said: “Here are the seven of us. This is what we look like and yes it was us.” They eventually fronted up. They tried to hide behind all those sorts of phrases but they eventually fronted up. I would like them to come clean about Waikato and to say how much money they put into National’s campaign in that area. I would like them to tell us how many of them were involved in the shocking push-polling that was going on in the Waikato in the time leading up to the election and I would like them to tell us how much money they put into the hoardings that were displayed in the Waikato. However the campaign did not work. 
The unions quite clearly say “Here we are. This is a pamphlet from the Council of Trade Unions; here are our views and opinions.”