Jones Shane: General Debate 
Jones Shane: General Debate 
[Volume:643;Page:13304] 
Hon SHANE JONES (Minister for Building and Construction) 
: 
 I follow my fellow Northlander and I say that that young Maori boy up in Kaikohe Kawakawa Whangaruru or somewhere up there boy he could teach that member a thing about how to deliver a decent speech. First he would tell him “I am the progeny of the ‘mother of all Budgets’.” Ruth Richardson slashed the guts out of our safety net drove all sorts of costs down to the most vulnerable families in New Zealand and selectively chose our young Maori families and it is no wonder we have children today who are cut adrift. The member should not bring to the House stories that it is the fault of the mothers and the fathers. Those mothers and fathers were treated like offal. They were thrown aside in the early 1990s but the Prime Minister had a vast strategy of investment to integrate those families back into society. So it is rich it is shocking that we should hear speakers from the other side of the House quoting stories about our young Maori men. They also want to celebrate and skite that our young Maori people are going to Australia. 
They forget that Maoris have gone backwards and forwards to Australia since time began. Rather than being an indictment on policy and quality of life here Maori go over there and enjoy the sunshine play a bit of rugby and do a bit of procreation—and so many of them drift back to Aotearoa. So National members should not put a negative dismal destructive spin on it trying to draw in more voters for the votes next year—we look forward to that. 
I want to tell members something. Even in Kaitaia Awanui Kawakawa and Moerewa the sleepy voters have woken up. They could occasionally have been woken up to meet Hone Harawira but unfortunately he is either in Asia or Australia. He does not know his own voters. He is “Ngati Walkabout”. He has excelled. He has gone beyond the foreign affairs brief and is now talking to—I am not entirely sure—people under the pay of the Middle East about race relations in New Zealand. I tell Mr Harawira that he should go back to Moerewa to meet his voters as they do not know who he is. 
However I come back to the point that many New Zealanders have woken up to. It relates to the fact that National Party members have bitched and moaned and sought to create enough latitude within our electoral finance regulations so they can go ahead and suck in money from the Macquarie Bank and the other people— 
Craig Foss 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I ask whether that was an unparliamentary term that was just used by the member. I took offence at the word he used in the House and I would like your ruling on that please. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Well I did not take offence at it. 
Craig Foss 
: Do you know which word I am talking about? It was prior to the word “moaned”. 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: Speaking to the point of order I say that I can imagine that the reference to a female type of dog may have caused the member from the Hawke’s Bay to suffer a rush of angst. I apologise and I withdraw that remark. 
Let me continue as to why members from the other side of the House want donations; they want donations. My friend Hone Harawira got into trouble with koha. These National members are getting into trouble with donations. They want to keep the donations very secretive. They want a surreptitious cloak put over them so they can suck the money in and then not be held accountable for the forces and influences that are driving them towards their failed policies. 
Of course we know what the first policy of a National Government would be. The first policy would be to prepare key assets for sale. The people who are unfortunately befuddling the farmers associated with the Fonterra issue are the same people who would drive the lesser souls occupying that side of the House to sell energy companies and bring in more privatisation to health. Fortunately as a consequence of the transparency threshold which will come into being when we pass the Electoral Finance Bill they will not be able to get away with it. 
Kiwis do not like that type of secretive funding for secret deals to sell our family silver. Kiwis do not like the fact that Auckland airport has been on the block off the block on the block then off the block. Kiwis also do not like the shadowy influence of people from half-baked religions wandering around in the dead of night furtively putting up posters and ripping down the very fine Labour Party photos of the candidate from the far north. It is unfortunate that the whanau did not find them at the right time. 
The reality of why these people want to be anonymous is that their financiers are actually embarrassed by them. They will see in a very short period of time after the next failure at the election all these pakeke—all these tired worn-out mean quibbling faces who occupy the front bench—disappear. The financiers are embarrassed about these people. Our friends from that party on that side of the House are uncomfortable to own up as to who they are in bed with. Actually they are beyond tired. They are beyond jaded. They are approaching a rather decrepit state in life and only the fall of life’s evensong will bring them to a suitable end. 
However the final thing I will remind us about is hidden identities. National members are trying to drive elections. They are trying to drive policies that will result in not only a worse tax burden for poor New Zealanders a worse cost burden for the most vulnerable New Zealanders but also assets flicked off to people who will look for a pay back; they will look for a pay back. We will have not only the hollow men again but the whole debacle as to why assets were stripped out of Television New Zealand and sold to mates. We can see it written on the faces of the National members. Some of them are uncomfortable about that. Some of them do not want to go into the draughty halls and face up to the fact they are trying to run a crooked election. Kia ora tatou.