Mackey Moana: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMackey Moana: General Debate[Sitting date: 13 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:14634. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MOANA MACKEY (Labour): The previous speaker Chris Tremain is so full of ideas that he could not even fill a 5-minute slot in the general debate. He sat down before his time was up. Well he is one of the members who are deserting the National Party ship. He does not want to be a part of any potential future “coalition of the crazy” which Prime Minister John Key is currently out there negotiating.I want to quickly touch on Minister Groser’s performance in the House today. He is off to Warsaw on his international speaking tour. I am sure he will be charging a hefty appearance fee to appear at the Warsaw 19th conference of parties negotiations. He said he believes that New Zealand is doing really well. We are doing really well on climate change! This is a Minister who has gutted the emissions trading scheme has sat by while our carbon price has utterly collapsed has devastated our carbon forestry industry has made us a pariah on the international stage when it comes to climate change and has had enormous criticism from our Pacific Island neighbours about the inaction of the New Zealand Government on climate change. He thinks he is doing really really well. But we need to acknowledge that we are in the presence of a genius when Minister Groser is in the House. Of course he was involved in Closer Economic Relations and said it actually should be called “Groser Economic Relations”. No one else said that unfortunately. That is what he said.I say to this Government that it has been utterly negligent in its duties in the area of climate change. It is an embarrassment to go from being a country that was clean green and proud that was seen as a leader in that area to being seen as a pariah and getting awarded the “Fossil of the Year” award for international climate change negotiations. My concern is that when I look at where John Key is taking the National Party I do not have any confidence that we can trust the National Party to take climate change seriously at all in the future.We have got our Prime Minister who is on record as saying that he is suspicious of climate change. He then said: “Well no no I’ve always believed in climate change.” But when he was caught in a moment of honesty he said: “Well if you believe in climate change—and I am somewhat suspicious of that.” We have his new BFF and favoured political bedfellow Colin Craig who believes that climate change is caused by the circulation of the planets—the circulation of the planets. Then we have Jami-Lee Ross an up-and-coming National MP one of the young MPs in the National Party who yesterday when he was doorstopped coming out of question time refused to state on the record that climate change was real. It is a pretty simple question to be asked as a politician: do you believe climate change is real?David Bennett: No.MOANA MACKEY: Jami-Lee Ross refused to comment. I am a little bit nervous—Hon Annette King: David Bennett just said no.MOANA MACKEY: Oh David Bennett just said no. But that is David Bennett. He is not one of the young up-and-comers in the National Party to be fair. But that is interesting—we will add him to the list of the “coalition of the crazy” which does not believe that climate change is real and which is suspicious of climate change. I am very worried for the future of our planet and the future of our country if this Government is re-elected in 2014—as it will not be.Going back to crazy Colin Craig the future lead coalition partner in the “coalition of the crazy” his views on climate change are not the only interesting views he holds. He came before the select committee hearing on marriage equality and announced a new Conservative Party policy that none of us had been aware of in the past which is that the Conservative Party opposes unisex toilets—opposes unisex toilets. It is one of those hot political issues that no one else wants to touch that political parties shy away from. His logic was that it is OK to treat people differently so men’s and women’s ablutions should be separate. He thought it was absolutely appropriate that men’s and women’s ablutions should be separate so the Conservative Party opposes unisex toilets. This is a future coalition partner of the National Party if John Key has his way. That begs the obvious question: does he have separate toilets at home? Does he have men’s and women’s toilets in his own house? I think that when that is the kind of tripe that is coming out of the mouth of the preferred political bedfellow of John Key voters in this country have every right to be very concerned about what a National-led Government a “coalition of the crazy” would look like in 2014.I say that the choice is clear: a coalition on this side of the House which has sound evidence-based policies—it always cracks me up to hear the Prime Minister referring to science. He is very selective in his choice of science. He has ignored every single report the Chief Science Advisor has provided to him but when he thinks he can get out of doing something he will refer to science. You can have this side of the House which is evidence-based which respects science and research and which wants action on the environment action on climate change and action on the economy or the “coalition of the crazy” on the other side of the House which is going to ban unisex toilets.