Fairbrother Russell: Resource Management and Electricity Legislation Amendment Bill — Second Reading Instruction to Committee In Committee 
Fairbrother Russell: Resource Management and Electricity Legislation Amendment Bill — Second Reading Instruction to Committee In Committee 
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RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER (Labour—Napier) 
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 I want to speak in support of the bill and in particular of Supplementary Order Paper 389. I do so having spent all morning in my office looking after the positive developmental concerns of my Napier constituency which is throbbing with progress as it strides in development. 
When I came into the House for my 30-second speech in support of this bill I picked up Supplementary Order Paper 389 and I cannot see what National members are complaining about. Perhaps because it is not in cartoon form they have trouble dealing with it. My eyes lit upon this phrase here which amends the definition clause for contaminated land. On the first page of the Supplementary Order Paper it states in relation to contaminated land: “if there is no applicable national environmental standard on contaminants”. Of course there is no applicable national environmental standard on contaminants because the National Party members are social anarchists. They are the apparatchiks of the commercial world who would have no applicable national environmental standards at all. That is why we need a Labour Government. There are no applicable national environmental standards in the National Party. We need this legislation to have some control over rampant commercialisation and policy directives from overseas as carried out by this terrible National Opposition which is fading into obscurity. 
I take this opportunity during my 30-second speech to welcome the election because there are no national environmental standards and this bill at least recognises that. I have not heard one member opposite refer to any national environmental standards. So we need a definition clause because of the absence of any national environmental standards. We need Supplementary Order Paper 389. This bill is a very good piece of legislation that I am glad we are passing under urgency because if it were up to those fellows over there they would still be sleeping until Christmas and they would not know an election had taken place. They lack any national standards and that is why this bill is such a good bill. 
Before I use my 30 seconds I have to say that the good people of Napier know there are no national standards at all. That is why it will be a Labour seat for many years to come. They know the fraud that has been perpetuated by these people who travel to Washington for policy. No that is not in the bill—I am talking about applicable national environmental standards and if we had one from the National members we could sit here and applaud them. But we sit here in desperation at the lack of policy and at all the bluff and all the social anarchy. This bill brings common sense to the Resource Management Act. I welcome it. I just wish I had 30 minutes to talk on it not 30 seconds because this is the most important piece of legislation that could come before this House today.