Moroney Sue: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: General Debate[Sitting date: 09 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6437. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): I thought there was a theme developing with the National members’ speeches and it was all about how great the economies were going in their regions. Then Tim Macindoe got up and could not speak about the economy in the Waikato because it is going down the tubes under this Government. It is shameful that he spent most of his speech talking about the Queen. Do not look at the Waikato economy going down the tubes; look at the Queen.Phil Twyford: Look over there.SUE MORONEY: Yes look over there look at the flag go look at the Queen. The truth is that in the Waikato we are facing the perfect storm. We are facing the perfect storm.Tim Macindoe: Talk the region down all the time. Never have a good thing to say about our region.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!SUE MORONEY: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It is very difficult when the member is getting so angry about his lack of attention to the Waikato—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! The member will resume her seat. I have just drawn the member into line. I now invite the member to get on with her speech rather than refer to the ruling that I have just made even if I have made it from my seat.SUE MORONEY: Well I am disappointed that the member for Hamilton West did not talk about the Waikato economy because it is the perfect storm. His Government ought to do something about it because at the moment we have got plummeting dairy milk prices which is affecting our region and at the same time escalating house prices because that Government has failed to fix the housing crisis in Auckland. The crisis is marching on down over the hill over the Bombays and straight down to Hamilton affecting house prices increasing rents and meaning that MPs like me and Tim Macindoe have got hordes of people coming into our offices trying to find decent places to live—trying to find places to live. That is what is happening in the Waikato.But I do want to talk about a hopeful future for this country because what we do need is a Government with a decent moral compass one that is in touch with the people who it is there to represent. Who demonstrated that this week? Andrew Little demonstrated that in truckloads—in truckloads. He led the fight to get the refugee quota lifted and the emergency measures in place. Since April he has been calling for the refugee quota to be lifted. He did not have to wait to see the dreadful photos. He did not have to wait for Crosby/Textor to tell him to start moving. He did not have to wait to see public opinion starting to change. He knew since April that that was the right thing to do because we could see the humanitarian crisis just revving up over in Europe and the Middle East and those parts of the world. What we need is the sort of leadership that Andrew Little demonstrated: the ability to say that that is the sort of thing that New Zealand can help with and should help with and he was on the front foot on that issue.I do not know what John Key was doing but he certainly was not listening to the New Zealand public on this. It took him weeks to catch up and that is not the sort of—Hon Member: At sea.SUE MORONEY: He was completely at sea with it. That is not the sort of leadership that we need because John Key is taking his instructions from Crosby/Textor and they got it wrong—they got it wrong. Mr Assistant Speaker—what?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I think the member has been here long enough to know that she cannot say that members are receiving instructions from outside parties. She will not say that. In fact she will withdraw.SUE MORONEY: You would like me to withdraw?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I would.SUE MORONEY: OK I withdraw. What I will say is that he takes his advice from Crosby/Textor. That is where he takes his advice from. He ought to be taking his advice from the New Zealand people because the New Zealand people knew what the right thing to dowas and Andrew Little got that right as well.A hundred years ago the New Zealand Labour Party was formed. It was formed on the back of a dispute by miners who actually went on strike over crib-time. Crib-time is what they used to call getting a tea break. That is what miners were on strike about 100 years ago and 100 years later we have that Government taking away ordinary workers’ right to have a tea break. Some things never change. The National Party is back to its old tricks and the Labour Party is the one with the answers and the positive vision about what working life ought to look like.Next week we will be talking about 26 weeks’ paid parental leave—another area where the Government is hopelessly out of touch with the New Zealand public because it does not understand and has no interest in knowing about the pressures on New Zealand families. It is the Labour Party that understands the pressures that are on New Zealand families and we will fight. Yes we are determined and we are going to continue to fight to get that right because while the National Party just takes a laissez-faire approach to it and tries to deal with the politics of it it will continue to get this wrong. It is not about politics. It is actually about doing the right thing—doing the right thing like Andrew Little had the instinct about and like the Labour Party has the instinct about—in making sure that every child gets the best start in life. It is clear that the best ideas are coming from this side of the House.