Tolley Anne: Urgent Debates — Justice Minister—Compliance withCabinet ManualText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTolley Anne: Urgent Debates — Justice Minister—Compliance withCabinet Manual[Sitting date: 12 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16572. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNE TOLLEY (Minister of Police):Can I first put on record my absolute disgust at the comments made by the previous speaker the Rt Hon Winston Peters—not only bringing members’ families into this but making fun of a partner’s name. Mr Peters to make fun of a name simply because it is not a European name is I think absolutely racist. I think it is racist and I want to put on record my disgust at those sorts of comments in this debate. I have to say that it is a bit rich to sit and listen to a number of members in this House talking about honesty openness and transparency. Actually that member who has just resumed his seat could not even answer questions; he had to put a notice up that said “No” rather than answering questions quite simple questions about openness and transparency. Mr Peters what happened when you were on the end of it?Well I want to speak today about my colleague the Minister of Justice Judith Collins because she has proven that she fronts up and she is the one who gives the media full disclosure of what happened. She is the one who fronted the media on the steps of Parliament and disclosed the dinner. She did not wait for the media to dig it out like they had with Winston Peters. It was not coming from the media like David Cunliffe’s trust. It did not come from them. It came from her fronting the media and saying that this was what had happened. She answered the questions last week. She answered the questions that were put to her.But right at the heart of all of this is the fact that from the day that this John Key - led Government came into Government we have been fighting to increase the exports from this country after 9 years of a Labour Government that drove this country’s exports into the ground. This is a country that makes its money that supports its people by selling our goods around the world and 9 years of a Labour Government saw internal consumption at an all-time high and exports at an all-time low. We have worked assiduously to support and promote the exporters of this country. Every Minister every time they travel overseas has a responsibility to be promoting New Zealand to be promoting New Zealand goods and to be promoting all that is good about New Zealand exporters and this Government has a proud record of doing that. As a consequence we have seen a growth in the export market.Through the deepest darkest days of a recession we as a country were thankful that the previous Labour Government had negotiated a free-trade agreement with China because the growth in exports to China helped this country earn dollars in order to support us through that recession. In fact the exports to China have made it our most important market. So the growth in exports from New Zealand companies has seen this country help itself through the recession. So there has been a responsibility on us all and I have no doubt that any Minister in any portfolio any time they have the opportunity overseas on any sort of official trip would do their very best to support New Zealand and promote New Zealand.The Prime Minister talked about a higher standard for Ministers and that has been quoted here. Yes we have had no drunk-driving convictions on this side of the House. We have not had any people convicted of corruption and we have had no one whom the media have had to dig out and find had hidden donations in trusts. Mr Cunliffe used a device that he knew would hide who his donors were. We do not know today who two of those donors are. The media are still working on it. Why does David Cunliffe not take a leaf out of Judith Collins’ book and stand and talk to the media and disclose fully who those donors were and how much money they gave to his leadership campaign? If we are talking seriously in this House about double standards then it is about time that the Labour Party came to the party too.