Peachey Allan: Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill — In Committee 
Peachey Allan: Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill — In Committee 
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ALLAN PEACHEY (National—Tamaki) 
: 
 I appreciate the opportunity to speak to Part 1. [ 
Interruption 
] Perhaps I will pause for 20 seconds and let Mr Jones let loose his vituperation use up a bit of energy and practise being the deputy leader of a party that will never elect him to that position and then I can get down to the business of the bill. There is not a sound. He is all talk when other people are talking. Earlier speakers have spoken clearly on the purpose of the bill. But everything that that discredited Government does has behind it another purpose and it is that purpose I wish to address. 
The first purpose the real purpose of this bill was never better put than by the member for New Zealand First when he spoke about socialism with stealth. The members over there know that they are gone. What we will see from the Government side of the Chamber for the remainder of the sitting of this Parliament will be efforts to interfere with the freedoms and the individual rights of New Zealanders. I will move on and look at the real purpose behind this bill. There is no doubt at all that one of the purposes in the minds of members opposite is to interfere with private ownership rights and to shift the balance in favour of the ability of the Government and local government to interfere with the rights of individual New Zealand citizens. That is the true purpose of this bill. 
I take the opportunity to congratulate Ms Paula Bennett. She is the member on this side of the Chamber who is leading our opposition to this bill. She spoke intelligently and incisively on the purpose of the bill. She is a member who comes from the west of Auckland. She knows better than the Labour members from that area how divided the community is. The question we have to ask when we look at the purpose of the bill and at the real purpose of the Government is this: where is the mandate for a Government that is in its last days in office struggling and holding on by its fingertips to introduce legislation into this House the real purpose of which is not to protect this beautiful part of New Zealand? Those areas are always protected—always have been and always will be. The real purpose is not the one stated in writing in the bill; it is to advance another agenda. 
Members on this side of the Chamber take great comfort from the knowledge that as a result of the work of Ms Bennett and others out west there will be a significant shift in political power come the next election. I think it behoves the member in the chair Lynne Pillay to think a little about her position and about whether the purpose of this bill which she is supporting is reflective of the real feelings of the community. The select committee got a very very clear message of division on that issue. 
This bill is not good legislation. It does not serve the purpose of this House to push through this sort of legislation which is so open to interpretation that its purpose is actually vague. We read this bill and we read the preamble and we ask ourselves whether this is actually the purpose of legislation or just the start of a fairy tale. It is written in the language of fairy tales. It is imprecise it is inaccurate it does not reflect what is going on out there—