Newman Muriel: General Debate 
Newman Muriel: General Debate 
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Dr MURIEL NEWMAN (Deputy Leader—ACT) 
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 Today the ACT party asked the Minister of Housing whether he is aware that the Housing New Zealand Corporation has developed and implemented a two-world view within the corporation—a Maori view and a Crown view. It was clear that the Minister did not have a clue. That Minister does not know what is going on in his portfolio. That is the same Minister who has the worst record of failure for ill-advised flagship programmes in the whole Labour Government. He has wasted millions and millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. 
We now have the totally unacceptable situation where the corporation—the State agency that houses tenants from dozens of different nationalities—has implemented racist policies that create a Maori world view and a Crown world view promoting special treatment for Maori. According to the chief executive Helen Fulcher the two-world view “is based on an acknowledgment that the two Treaty partners have different ways of looking at the world including beliefs values and experience. By looking from both of these perspectives we can develop a two-world view for the Corporation which will underpin the way HNZC operates internally and the way we develop relationships externally. … we are only at the beginning of a long and really interesting journey.” 
A request under the Official Information Act has revealed that in breach of all of our New Zealand laws stating that in this country one cannot discriminate on the basis of race the Labour Government has implemented policies that have introduced special treatment for Maori clients and special treatment for Maori employees creating two tiers of privilege. Under Housing New Zealand Corporation’s two-world view millions and millions of dollars have been spent on consultants travel meetings and hui as well as on race-based recruitment and training. 
For the first time in the history of the public service in this country we have a Government that has introduced recruitment policies meaning that unless a person agrees with Maori grievance ideology and buys into this Government’s politically correct agenda that person cannot work for Housing New Zealand. It is an outrage that we now have a Government that employs people in the public service based on racial ideology and that they cannot be hired by the corporation unless they pass Labour’s race test. 
I know people who have applied for jobs in the corporation and in other Government departments like the Department of Corrections—and I understand that such policies are also going on in the health sector in the police and in a number of other areas—and they have chucked it in in disgust because they do not buy into political correctness at the level that Labour is thrusting it down their throats. They do not buy into having two different types of privilege—one for Maori and one for the rest of New Zealand. 
According to the training documents there is even a transformational vocabulary in the Housing New Zealand Corporation. One cannot say that one is “confused”; one has to say one is “curious”. One cannot say that one is afraid; one has to say one is “uncomfortable”. If one is furious one has to say one is “passionate” and if one is disgusted one has to say one is “surprised”. 
Steve Maharey must accept full responsibility for undermining the integrity of the public service for pushing even more political correctness on to New Zealand—a country that is sick and tired of political correctness—and for promoting reverse discrimination by introducing special privilege for Maori. 
I leave Government members with this question: can they name one person who lives in a warmer dryer safer house as a result of Housing New Zealand Corporation’s two-world view? The answer is no. The members over there know it yet they are thrusting this stuff on to the public service and unsuspecting New Zealanders. It is not only that; Labour’s spin machine has tried to tell us the opposite—and it is not true.