Jones Shane: General Debate 
Jones Shane: General Debate 
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Hon SHANE JONES (Labour) 
: 
 I move  
That the House take note of miscellaneous business 
. Tena koe e Te Kaihautu o te Whare. I hope members are listening very carefully to the people in Kaipara because today they have been short-changed by the Government. The level of disdain for the Government now comes not only from the tangata whenua of Tamaki-makau-rau but stretches from the Northern Wairoa right through to Tainui. There has been erosion and destruction of faith and trust. Every opportunity was made available for John Key and Mr Hide to bring through in a gesture of goodwill something that would aid and advance race relations development in Aotearoa. But no they sent Mr Hide out as a whistle dog fomenting racial discord without realising that Mr Key who loves to be popular all the time had entered into a commitment with Ngati Whatua and Tainui to do the right thing.  
So it falls to this side of the House to do the right thing and to ensure that the new super-city and the governance model for the super-city are progressive and modern and capture the essence of what Auckland is to be in the future—not tired old leafy immigrants or ambassadors from the east who cast aspersions on Kelston Boys High School and look after their own kids in Auckland Grammar School. No. Tangata whenua and Pacific Islanders are all written out of the script. 
John Key went to Ngati Whatua marae listened to Ngati Whatua and made a commitment on that marae and to Tuku Morgan and now he welshes on the commitment and walks away from it. He blames Mr Hide but Mr Hide enjoys this type of reputation. He wants to let people know that not only is he a buffoon— 
Hon Clayton Cosgrove 
: What’s the other word? 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: No I am not playing rugby and I am not punting. He also enjoys making a fool out of the Maori on that side of the House who I can tell members now will not be able to show up with any sincerity. They will not be able to show up with any mana to any Maori organisation because they had the chance to come to this side of the House and make a statement of principle on how important democracy is not only in our parliamentary processes but also in a proper trusted process for tangata whenua. Why do those members fear that? Georgina te Heuheu stood up to Don Brash unlike the rest of them. They let her speak and take an independent position and she crowed about how she enjoyed that entitlement as a consequence of being a member of that caucus. But that entitlement is absent today. 
The reason those members have lost their way is that they have sold out for short-term political gain to keep Mr Hide in place. Auckland City is turning into a mess. Assets are being readied for privatisation boundaries are being moved in the dead of night and Maori are being overlooked. 
Hon Members 
: Oh oh! 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: We hear from the back of the House evidence of necrosis of the mind in terms of those two Maori there. Rest assured they will have to give an account as to why they have sold their own people out and deliberately misled the Maori Party. We feel aroha for the Maori Party because its members are now realising having joined into a pact with the National Party that there is no way the pact will be delivered on and they will have to give an account on the marae as to why they are prepared to prop up a Government that favours the rich picks on the dispossessed and marginalises Maori. The Government is held in place by the Maori Party. The Maori Party members will have to give their own account to the voters of Tamaki-makau-rau and the people the tangata whenua who today have been sold out. 
What are they going to tell the tangata whenua Maori of Auckland? Maybe they can have an advisory committee. Maybe they can come and give a po’hiri or maybe they can change some of the names etc. Of course the first name they will change is porohewa which means bald head. We have seen two bald heads Mr Henare and Mr Hide reduce each other to a level quite unbecoming for this House. They are poor examples. One man ransacks parliamentary process and one man will not own the words he uses as he tells the truth about how he really feels about Mr Hide. 
The Maori population of Auckland has grown immensely. It is youthful; it trusted in what the Prime Minister said. The Prime Minister has misled them. The Prime Minister has not stood up for the Treaty of Waitangi; he has failed.