Joyce StevenGENERAL DEBATEHon STEVEN JOYCE (Minister of Finance): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. I want to record for the House today a great opportunity for young people who are keen to learn about politics in this country. It has had a little bit of publicity outside the House but not so much inside the House. It is an important opportunity. It is indeed a special opportunity. I have a copy of it here. It is the 2017 Labour Campaign Fellowship a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in New Zealand politics." Who could regret the idea to do that? It gives fellows "a glance into what a career in politics" is really all about. It offers the fellows "special access to senior MPs and important decision makers". It has a lecture series with the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party—Hon Members: Oh!Hon STEVEN JOYCE: —with a former Prime Minister—Hon Members: Oh!Hon STEVEN JOYCE: —with current ambassadors to New Zealand and with senior party stakeholders. What a wonderful opportunity; you would be very proud of this if you had put this together would you not? You would be saying: "This is fantastic. This is a great opportunity." Except that it is not. Except that if you come to New Zealand you do not get the lectures you do not get to join in with the Democratic Party in the US. You do not even get to stay in reasonable accommodation; you actually have to have broken showers you have to build your own accommodation and if you are lucky you might get a chance to—maybe—ring up some people and be an unpaid canvassing worker in a sweatshop for the Labour Party. That is what this is. It is very sad.It is just appalling because suddenly nobody in the Labour Party knew anything about it. It was weird. It was Matt McCarten and he of course has never worked in the Labour Party—he has never worked with Labour. And if he has worked in the Labour Party he has not worked in the Labour Party for a long time—at least 2 minutes. So—[Interruption] Oh it was the Auckland Labour Party; it was not the New Zealand Labour Party. It was the Auckland Labour Party that was responsible for this thing and they are not admitting that. And then it was not the leader of the Labour Party; he was not responsible for this particular exercise.The Labour Party spent a week denying knowledge of it and now they want credit for cleaning it up. They want credit for cleaning up this absolute mess. But that is all right; the Labour Party leader is out there saying that New Zealand needs to sort out these sorts of schemes. This is the Labour Party leader on the subject of international education scams: "The reality is that many of these students are turning up to pretty shoddy jobs often being paid less than the minimum hourly rate often in a climate of fear. They are not allowed to talk about what they are doing and therefore are being exploited. We cannot allow this to continue; we have to look at the system and see whether or not we need to cut it back. It is not right that we have people coming here who are facing exploitative conditions in New Zealand."Hon Simon Bridges: Who said that?Hon STEVEN JOYCE: That was Andrew Little and he is of course right—except we did not know he was talking about himself. We did not know it was a confession—this confession of a speech. He says: "… we must stop the abuse of the system by dodgy employers who want to import workers on the cheap … We need to stop the rort that sees people overseas being sold meaningless qualifications here …"—and all the time the biggest culprit was the Labour Party. But it has some questions to answer still.Here is a very interesting question: who paid? Who paid for this internship scheme? It cost $200000 and it has not turned up in the Labour Party's donations register. Now apparently it was the unions that were going to pay for it but the unions are running a hundred miles. They are like that guy Andrew Kirton who runs the place. He is running a hundred miles in the other direction. So it is not the unions—apparently it is not the unions—and there are no donors who have donated $200000. So who is the mystery donor and why do we not know? When will the Labour Party front up? When will Andrew Little front up and actually reveal the information that he is refusing to give which is who has bankrolled this shoddy scheme for the Labour Party? When is the Labour Party going to declare the donation that it should have declared before it started?"