Fox Marama: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFox Marama: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6172. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Well if ever there was an Academy Award - winning performance that might have been it from Clayton Cosgrove. In fact later on today we are going to be talking a little bit about the game—not the beautiful game as soccer is referred to not the game of kings or the sport of kings which is racing but the game of all New Zealand. In fact we are going to be talking about rugby.I want to talk about a different game. I want to talk about the game of politics because certainly over the last few weeks as we have debated the Health and Safety Reform Bill we have seen game playing in this House by all parties. I want to say this: Mr Little spoke today about the moral compass. I am wondering what moral compass he is referring to. Is he talking about the moral compass where Labour Party members use bullying strategies to try to bully the support partners of this Government to do their dirty work? Because those people have done nothing. Mr Little says that the Māori Party is all over the place with its thinking on this Health and Safety Reform Bill. I want to tell you that the only people who are all over the place are the members of the Labour caucus who come running all over the place up to our office to do their bidding when they cannot do it themselves.The arrogance of some people to think that they can then blast us with a computer programme sending 5000 emails overnight in the hope that that may do something—the same lines over and over again 5000 times to ensure that we may support their stance and vote down the bill. Vote down the bill to do what? To do nothing because in this country under the Labour Government people died. They died under the Government when Labour was in and they died under the Government when National was in and what did they do about it? At the time they did nothing.So this health and safety reform legislation that we now have coming through the House is better than nothing which they want to go back to. They want to go back to health and safety legislation under which these people suffered and died. How do they want to get change? They come to our office and they ask us to use our influence to ensure that we can get changes through and when we do get those changes through how is that greeted? That is greeted with further wavering of moral compasses and disrespect from the Leader of the Opposition.I sat next to Mr Little on Saturday before his appalling interview on The Nation and he did not take the opportunity to speak with me about his concerns and did not take the opportunity to express his concerns about the Health and Safety Reform Bill. He ignored it completely but later criticised us for our wavering stance. Well we have been very clear. We have been very clear.Yes we think there are things that could be strengthened. My husband the shearer—shearing should have been in there. So what did we do? We used our influence to produce the high-risk industries so that we could see what was going to be high risk. We used our influence to ensure that a Supplementary Order Paper supporting families to be able to take their prosecution seriously at the end of that time was supported through. We used our influence to—Peeni Henare: To ignore Māori.MARAMA FOX: —ensure that the Government heard us. To ignore Māori? That is ridiculous. Because I will tell this member that when the forestry deaths were being politicised in this House who was the party that got the review to happen? The Māori Party ensured that there was a forestry review. Who do I ask? I ask our family members whether forestry regulations have been strengthened. They tell me and the ones who work in the forest tell me that they are safer now than they have ever been and why? Because we care and because we work with them to get a better outcome than just voting the legislation down and making sure that nothing would be any better if that happened.