Mallard Trevor: General Debate 
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Mallard Trevor: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 09 May 2012. Volume:679;Page:2094. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South) 
: 
 I want to make a couple of comments to members who have spoken this afternoon. To Paul Hutchison an old boy of the same school as me I just want to say one thing: get your electorate to pay its bills. It is absolutely shocking as an old boy of Onslow College— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! The member has referred to other people saying “get your”. The member cannot use that part of speech in debate. He knows well enough.  
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: I say to Paul Hutchison: he should get his electorate to pay his bills. That would be a good thing to do. And a bit of advice for the relatively new member Sam Lotu-Iiga and that is that when Michael Woodhouse suggests that it would be inappropriate to go to Puhoi to go to a seminar run by Simon Lusk then it would be a good idea not to go. He defied the whip and he went to that seminar along with Mark Mitchell and Louise Upston.  
It must cause a little bit of a relationship problem in the whips’ seats when the House has when the whips have and when National has one whip saying “Don’t go.” and the other whip turning up. And there was the other member whom we do not expect to know any better because he is as we say the poor man’s Paul Quinn. Jami-Lee Ross was the other member who apparently went to that. We do not expect him to understand but he turned up as well.  
Today has been an interesting day in terms of quotations on the promiscuity of New Zealand women. Mr Speaker I know that you were given some advice in this area yesterday but today we heard from the leader of the Conservative Party the person whom John Key is trying to get into bed I might say— 
Grant Robertson 
: So to speak. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: Well who knows? Rachel Smalley I think summed it up pretty well today: “Why is it only New Zealand women who’ve become promiscuous? Has the country been overwhelmed by rampant lesbians?” I think that just about sums up the line that should be taken on the potential coalition partner the group that John Key has been trying to get alongside.  
Today has also been interesting. Today I think has been the first occasion when I have ever heard a Minister for Social Development prefer a Stuff poll over the household labour force survey for accuracy on employment statistics. It is just amazing that we have a Minister who has an enormous amount of resources available to her and what she says is: “I’ll ignore every official statistic the thing that we spent millions of dollars collecting and we’ll decide the policy of the country based on a Stuff poll.” Well that just about says it all and that is one of the reasons I am sure why 1000 New Zealanders are leaving every week permanently to go to Australia. Those people cannot see any hope from this Government whatsoever.  
I think all of us know such people. In my own electorate we have the Lomaxes. You cannot get more Hutt Valley and Wainuiomata than the Lomax family. The Lomax family are not going over to play rugby league temporarily—because a number of them have but they have always come back. You know they have gone over they have performed brilliantly and they have come back to New Zealand.  
Grant Robertson 
: Didn’t one of them break your arm?  
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: Arnold. He is still here unfortunately. I do not want to say too much more about Arnold and his serious tackles because I might get another one.  
Why are they going? They are going because growth under the National Government led by John Key is the worst we have had in New Zealand for 50 years at least—the worst growth we have had in New Zealand for at least 50 years—and it could well be because people are working their way back through the statistics the worst since the Great Depression. I just want to say that I do not blame people for going to Australia because this Government is not giving them hope. The only good thing is that the stench of corruption means that this Government is going.