Ngaro Alfred: Crimes (Match-fixing) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNgaro Alfred: Crimes (Match-fixing) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 30 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19773. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALFRED NGARO (National):It is an honour to take the final call on the Crimes (Match-fixing) Amendment Bill in its first reading. I want to say to the member Chris Hipkins that obviously he has probably not had a one-to-one lesson on the history of the Labour Party and its dodgy deals and the match fixing he talked about. I actually think that that is the fault of the Hon Trevor Mallard. He should have done the 101 lesson. Chris Hipkins missed a class. If Trevor Mallard had taught him he would have told him about what happened in 1999 when Helen Clark actually did a deal with Jeanette Fitzsimons down in Coromandel. That is right “Chippy”—sorry Chris Hipkins—that is what they did. They did a deal there. He talks about dodgy deals but that is OK because Chris Hipkins was not born in 1999. He is still quite young. He is still quite green so he can be forgiven. He can be forgiven. He was not even a twinkle in the eye so he did not know—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! Those sorts of comments are a personal attack against a member. I ask the member to come back and just be very careful about what he is saying.ALFRED NGARO: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. They were just a rebuttal to the comments in the debate that were made by Chris Hipkins just to sort of set the story straight in the sense of talking about dodgy dealing and match fixing. This is a serious bill.Dr Megan Woods: Don’t be nasty then.ALFRED NGARO: The intent of this bill is about integrity. Oh Megan Woods said: “Don’t be nasty.” Well it is interesting because you know we just heard the attacks that have come from Chris Hipkins. I wish that Megan Woods had actually said that to him. But no that is OK—“Don’t be nasty.”Well this bill is actually not about being nasty; this bill is about integrity. This bill is important. For those of us who have actually coached who have actually managed sports and a number of people in sports it is really important. I know that from many years helping to coach the rugby teams and the netballs teams of my children as they have gone through them. We know that as young children grow up they love the ability to be able to go out to enjoy sports to have fun in sports and that is really important. So this bill is about that. It is ensuring there is not that sense of corruption inside sports even at the highest level. Why? Because our young people look at our most senior sportspersons and they see them as their role models so that becomes absolutely important. This bill is about the aspect of ensuring that corruption is not in there.I was actually in Melbourne over in Victoria last year and I remember that at the CPA Australia conference there the Australian members of Parliament talked about their anti-corruption legislation. They talked about its impact and the need for it inside sports especially around football and especially around cricket. So this is a good bill. The Government is taking a lead in this. We know it is getting unanimous support around the House. It is a pity that it has become a little bit of a political football that is going back and forth. What it is doing is actually important—this bill is important. It is about integrity inside sport. There is not much more to say.Hon Trevor Mallard: The member is running in West Auckland; he needs to know the difference between soccer and league.ALFRED NGARO: A lot has already been said and I know that Mr Mallard is there sort of chirping away. We know that this bill is important to the House. We look forward to it going through to the Law and Order Committee and being in force because the key word in the intent of the bill in regard to sport is “integrity” which New Zealand upholds in this Parliament and in this country for all sportsmen. I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Law and Order Committee.