Cunliffe David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCunliffe David: General Debate[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17323. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE (Leader of the Opposition): I moveThat the House take note of miscellaneous business. Life is full of irony. I quote: “The third pillar of clean Government is transparency.” That was Judith Collins lecturing the Chinese about corruption on the same taxpayer-funded trip where she had dinner with the chairman of her husband’s company and the senior Chinese border control official that that company wanted to get its products through. That is corruption. That is what—to quote her—corruption looks like.John Key is no better. He is donkey deep in the Oravida scandal. He is so compromised because he took $55000 for playing his first game of golf with the same chairman and lied to cover it up. That is a strong word. He said it was a charity; he was the charity. The National Party was the charity. No wonder he cannot sack Judith Collins—he is just as guilty as she is. She has got the numbers in that sorry caucus and he knows it which is why he will not lift a finger—Hon Steven Joyce: Ha ha!Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE: That is the laugh of the damned. Imagine being an also-ran to the “Minister for Corruption”—imagine being the also-ran to the “Minister of Corruption”.Let us summarise why she is toast. She is toast because she has a deep abiding and pecuniary conflict of interest. Her husband was appointed to the board of Oravida. She has a financial gain from that appointment. That company gave $56500 to the National Party. She shares in that benefit. She went to China on a taxpayer-funded trip. She posed for the company to promote its products. She lobbied Chinese Government officials to get those products into China. She did not declare the meeting in her ministerial report. She did not declare the details to the Prime Minister. She did not declare the details to the House. She has repeatedly made a mockery of your rulings Mr Speaker by saying that she has no ministerial responsibility as a Minister on an anti-corruption trip for sitting with the chairman of her husband’s company and the border control official.That is a joke. It is worse than a joke. It is the same kind of corruption that she is lecturing about. Here is what she told the Chinese academy of young executives: “Fighting corruption is not easy. It is a complex offence that is difficult to detect.”Rt Hon Winston Peters: That’s true!Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE: Just ask Grant Robertson. Just ask Winston Peters. Just ask my colleagues who have day by day been fighting to get the truth from that Minister—the whole truth and nothing but the truth not the scampi equivalent that she thinks she can get away with.What did Mr Key say a month or two ago? He said: “Gee I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes if she does this again.” Well guess what? She has just been caught out because not only did she prepare in advance for those Oravida dinners and not only did she not just pop in for a cuppa on the way to an airport that was in the opposite direction by 30 kilometres but she has lobbied for the interests of her husband’s company. That is a conflict of interest.She expects the New Zealand people to believe the lie that they never discussed Oravida business—yeah right! But I say this to you. Even if they sat around that table eating scampi and did not say a single word of any kind the whole night in Chinese culture the fact that she was there a Minister of the Crown with the very border control official who could influence that company’s outcomes even if he was dumb blind and mute and she said nothing it is still—