Jones Shane: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: General Debate[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17330. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SHANE JONES (Labour): Kia oraanōtātou. In this short contribution of mine I am going to focus on accountability. I am going to focus on accountability in three areas. No. 1 is the absence of any accountability from Judith Collins in terms of giving a truthful account of what happened while she was on her oriental express. Next I am going to turn my attention to the Māori Party. Then in my trans-Tasman fashion I am going to come back to making a few observations about Lotto and the Countdown supermarkets.If Judith Collins—as is correct and as stated by Grant Robertson and soon to be stated I am sure by Winston Peters—is toast then the Māori Party is as they say down on the marae “brown bread”. But when the Māori Party went to the Northern Club it did not get brown bread. It leaves Māori bread forRātana Pa and fried bread for Waitangi but it feasts on bagels baguettes and other kinds of flash types of bakery items that you get at the Northern Club that I have never heard of.Why I am raising this issue is that this is an example of how far that party has lost its way. I actually did a bit of research on what Tariana Turia has said in the past. This is what she has said: “The majority of our kids don’t get to go through the door unless we can go and convince the employer to give them a go.” So is that why they went to the Northern Club—to actually address the unemployment in Kaikohe andKaitāia? Tariana Turia is afraid to go to Tai Tokerau. She hates the place because that is where Hone Harawira comes from. Did she go there to advance the interests of the young Māori jobseekers in South Auckland? No. Well perhaps she went for this reason: “There is only one party you can trust with absolute certainty”—according to Tariana Turia—“to protect and look out for Māori interests and that is the Māori Party.” Is that the Māori Party that is now whistling: “He who pays the piper calls the tune”?When you embrace your funder when you cuddle up to the Prime Minister and his funders from the other end of town they tell you what to do. There is no independence left with that particular party. There is no independent analysis. Now that it has received the gold and silver as a consequence of the Prime Minister you can rest assured it will show no accountability to the voters in Waiariki. It is more than likely thatRawiri Waititi our candidate will beat both Te Ururoa and Annette Sykes because he will come through the middle but the real problem is that the Ministers in that particular tawdry outfit show no accountability to the people who put them there. That is why they will go.Let me come back to Countdown. I want this House to know that since my democratic contributions to do with the behaviour of this Australian-owned supermarket hit the press matters have improved between them and suppliers. But what Countdown does not know is that there is an avalanche of information being sent to the Commerce Commission and an additional email I am going to make available to the Commerce Commission.During this episode people have pointed out to me that Countdown has a cosy relationship with Lotto which is why I have asked Ruth Dyson and why I have asked Mr Mallard to ensure that they use their good services on the various select committees that they are on to call Lotto into Parliament to account for the following: “Hi. I’d like to let you know that even Lotto New Zealand have had intimidation methods used by both Countdown and Woolworths on numerous occasions and with all the Lotto executive team keeping this very quiet”—which is why it must be forced to come to Parliament. “Hundreds and thousands of dollars have been paid to both of these entities in project payments. This is so that Lotto can sell tickets through the checkouts”—worsening gambling spread at a time when Lotto bases itself on the myth of being the family concerned. “This also is because Countdown threatened to close Lotto counters in their stores. They have dictated they will sell and when refusing to sell Instant Kiwi tickets”—it is rather bizarre that an Aussie-owned company is able to do that—“in the past which they did not like. No other Lotto retailer can or has been allowed to do this only Countdown. Everyone is under strict threats not to say anything from the chief executive officer to the chief operational officer.”Drag those people to the highest court in the land and bring them before the select committees of this Parliament to account for their dealings which are possibly dodgy.