Peters WinstonRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (NZ First): Mr Speaker as Parliament draws to a close New Zealand First wishes to express our thanks to you and your staff. We may not always agree Mr Speaker but we've enjoyed the calm and the humour you have brought to the House. We must also thank the Rt Hon Adrian Rurawhe for having served in the Speaker's role for the majority of this year and for bringing a certain independence and professionalism that could be observed as being widely respected by parliamentarians.To the cleaners caterers security staff drivers library and Hansard staff; to the real workers as well as to the many office staff from the precinct we thank you for your exemplary service. This building would not function without you and I wish you a happy and safe festive season.I must also acknowledge all of the first responders and essential services—our policemen and women firefighters paramedics doctors nurses corrections officers and all those other front-line professionals and volunteers trying to keep our country safe and running this year. We all thank you and also have a special message of gratitude to those who cannot go on holiday cannot have a break and must run essential services right over Christmas. So pay some thought to them and remember them when you're having your holiday.To my colleagues in New Zealand First our caucus has come together quickly and well. So thanks for your support and excellent work to begin the term alongside all of our parliamentary and ministerial staff and alongside our coalition colleagues. Mind you we got our Christmas present on 14 October. That was election day. A lot of people couldn't read the polls but it was 14 October and we had a team that went out Cinderella-ised and marginalised despite everything that they say at the moment. Maybe my eyesight is failing me but I couldn't see those people at those meetings we were having but they tell me they were there. The reality is that politics is about reporting every angle every side and one of the most amazing things about politics—whether it be on the far left or the far right right around the world—is that numbers and packed halls usually mean something. It means potential market share but it didn't happen and I just want to remind those who were congratulating the media today to have a good look at the details of the journalism interest fund. Have a look at what its terms were and have a look the clause that says if you don't obey this pay the money back. It's all there clear as daylight and I hope we never see that again in our country because the fourth estate is critical to a sound democracy. I hope they go away and reflect on that before they come back next year.I do thank my party members around the country who worked so hard to bring about the result and I also want to reciprocate the words that David Seymour has expressed and I'm sure so would Mr Luxon do if he was here as well. We have put together I think a very sound coalition Government that can go forward and the fact is that if we all agreed with each other we would not be in our different parties—that's the essence of it. If we all agreed and had consensus we wouldn't be in different parties. We've all got something to contribute and what we've got to do is rebuild a country that was in a very short space of time rapidly destroyed.Please don't talk about the Labour Government of 2017. I can recall just that before 1 October 2017 a Talbot Mills poll came out and they were on 20 percent. We'd risen to 19 percent and we thought Good heavens! This is bad timing for us. There's going to be a collapse in the Labour Party." and there was. Jacinda Ardern got chosen on 1 August and 54 days later she becomes the Prime Minister because we are not biased. We're fair: we give people a fair go and give them a break. But the reality is they want to now say that that was them—no it wasn't. There was a handbrake at the time. Remember light rail? It started off at $1.9 billion then $8 billion then $14 billion to $16 billion and then $29 billion and some party stopped it because we didn't think it was ever feasible in the first place. But here we go we got programme after programme but look at their advertising in 2020: everything we did was in their campaign advertising.I'm reminding them about that because that's the reason why they're going to be in the wilderness a long long time and I'll tell you what their problem is now. They haven't got a leader and it showed in the lack of lack of intensity and in the repetitiveness of the attack today. With the greatest respect this is not the Labour Party I once studied and if they're going to make a change the best thing they can do is start remembering who they are meant to represent for in the end it's the numbers that matter.Hon Kieran McAnulty: Who? The tobacco lobbyists or forestry and all that sort of stuff? Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh here we go—tobacco. This is the outfit you see that were happily changing the tobacco rules so that from 2011 to now they have taken $24 billion off these users—cigarette smokers and what have you—and of those one-third are Māori. So $8 billion has been taken off Māori. Are you going to the Waitangi Tribunal about that? No. That's more than all the Waitangi settlements put together because of their woke signalling to the Māori people. Education will change that. As a famous man called Pōmare the first Māori Minister of Health said all those years ago education and training changes that not the imposition of woke taxes—$8 billion has been taken off Māori. And they're not too happy now are they when they're outside there throwing flags around and saying what they should be doing. We're want to change Māori and give Māori a chance to have freedom and education and information to make the changes themselves. But back to the—Darleen Tana: Honour Te Tiriti. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh honour the Treaty—really? Which Treaty are you talking about? Which Treaty are you talking about? Are you talking about the one that you are writing every day because you don't know anything about the history of this country or the one that great—[Interruption] Oh not more than me. No no you won't. Excuse me I was there a long time before you were right there—[Interruption] No right there with Whina Cooper when you weren't—right there when all these great causes like kōhanga reo were started and you weren't. I can speak to you all day about things that I've done and all we've seen from people like you is noise noise noise. All talk—all hui and no do-ey. We're not having that going forward and I hope that member goes home and thinks at Christmas-time on the fact there were people in the past Māori world with far more knowledge far more intelligence far more integrity and far more respect than this person shouting out today. Have you ever seen a Māori on a marae behave like that? Do you ever see a Māori male or female on a marae behaving like that? Uh-uh no you don't. Here it comes—this new version of Māori behaviour. They come in here not prepared to hear the other side of the story and let me ask you this one question: what on earth have you ever done for Māori? Any of you—give me the list. I tell you what I could put it on the back of stamp with a carpenter's pencil and there'd be room left over. That's what you've done for Māori. In our case we've done it and we've meant it and we're proud of it.But as Shane Jones would say the kūmara never says—he asked me to do this so I'm not going on boasting about it. All right? But let me tell you I know what's happened here. Out in the Māori world using the radicalisation of a few elite—people who know nothing about the Māori world really—and in this case Te Wai Pounamu. Half of the mining in the South Island is on their chest right now. The greenstone is all there huge almost pulling their necks down—because if they were real you wouldn't need to wear that would you? All imagery all show—no action.Can I just say that this time over Christmas there are going to be a lot of people around the barbecue highly relieved that there is a change of Government. I feel it; I see it. You can see it in their eyes when you walk down a street. They're saying they're so pleased that there was a change of Government. If you learn to read a room and watch people there's a new breath of relief and a fresh confidence and our job is to take that on to rebuilding the country we once were with the principles that we once had but with the policies that understand that it's sound common sense sound commercial policies that put a businessman and woman alongside a businessman's and woman's workers and their staff and they are both of equal value—they are critical. We understand that. We're not here as a party just arguing one side of the story; we want everybody to realise that our future is best as a country going forward together in a country that has always been known—and it was known at time of the Treaty of Waitangi—as New Zealand. None of the chiefs—Hon Kieran McAnulty: Listen up—he was there. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: "Listen up" he says—I was there. No but my chiefly ancestor was and he's a whole lot more brighter than you. He's a genius compared to you. I respect this ancestor and I respect all those chiefs back then who knew what they were doing and not one in the whole breadth of the country ever called the country Aotearoa. Have a happy Christmas."