Horomia Parekura: Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee 
Horomia Parekura: Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee 
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Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA (Labour—Ikaroa-Rawhiti) 
: 
 Kia ora Mr Chair. There are some great movies like  
Rob Roy 
 and they have great titles. They make great statements about the wind blowing west and the darkened days arising. For example  
The Grapes of Wrath 
 is like what has happened here with the Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill. We are seeing the drifting and the undoing of working classes’ rights in this country; Mr Brownlee knows that. The member from Wairarapa just signalled that the key issue is that the work is either short-term or long-term. That is the moot point—in this bill it is neither. It is about putting peoples’ security at risk. 
It is great that  
The Hobbit 
 will be filmed here. It is great that the film has remained in this country. When the Prime Minister was on TV and was asked how the deal was going he said that it was really touch and go. He is a great man; he is a great actor. He put the signal out but people knew right then that he had the deal sewn up 3 days before it was announced—yes he had. Mr Brownlee knows that. A lot of us watch movies so we know who the good actors are and who the slow actors are. 
Taika Waititi made a great movie in this country  
Boy 
 and I want to talk about Maori participation as in  
The 
Whale Rider 
 because I have heard a whole lot of huffing and puffing and rubbish from the Maori Party member about how the movies will help Maori people. But this is a disgrace in the sense that we are helping major corporates when movies like  
Boy 
 had no support. Is that not amazing? But the Minister sits there and is supposed to be the architect of modern rules and legislation— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Eric Roy) 
: Please come back to the title. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
:—in the sense of what should create a good title for this bill. It could be renamed and restated as a whole lot of things. It could be the “Pork Pie Looney Tunes and All Those Great Titles Bill”. It could be the “Whale Rider Bill” because it is about riding the workers and trying to use leverage to do what you have sneakily been doing— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Eric Roy) 
: I ask the member not to use the word “you”. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
:—what some of those members over there have been trying to do. 
I reiterate what my learned colleague said here earlier on. Those members opposite said that the 90-day bill was for a trial period but that is what this is: a trial period. All of a sudden—oops splish-splash like Mickey Mouse—this bill will prevail over all businesses. So we try to get around that by playing the favourite trick of the corporates and the people who want to control the working class: we move people from full rights within the framework of employment rights to being contractors—as in Telecom and other companies. What is the main nub of a movement like that? It is quite simply that costs and pressures are moved on to individuals. That is real cost saving! 
I heard Te Ururoa Flavell for whom I have a lot of respect mutter and stutter and go on about Maori workers being behind by 25 percent. He talked about the pay imbalance in relation to pay parity with nurses Pakeha and Maori. Well some members might think that that is great—and one member over there—that joker at the back there the party jumper Tau Henare—said that this would give 400 Maori a job. But I ask what about the other 169000 who are losing— 
Chris Tremain 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I bring your attention to Standing Order 107 on relevancy. This clause is about the title of the bill. I have not heard one mention at all about the title of the bill in 2 or 3 minutes. I would like you to bring the member to order please. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Eric Roy) 
: I want to keep re-emphasising two points. Although this bill has not gone to a select committee and although there is more tolerance of a slightly wider flavour that does not open up the debate to a general debate style. The member should make references to the statements he is making and the analogies he is using with pertinence to the title. This debate is on clause 1 the title clause. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: I misunderstood the speaker earlier on but I take the point. 
Certainly there could be a whole lot of adjustments in the banner as Chris Tremain has pointed out. This bill could be the “Unrelated Relationships Between Employers and Workers Bill” because that is what it is. It could be the “Relevant Support of Workers’ Rights Bill”. 
Hon Tau Henare 
: Do you know what this bill is about? 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: I know what the bill is about I say to Mr Henare. It is about increasing the number of the 169000 people who are unemployed. The bill could be the “Increase the Unemployed Numbers Bill”. It could be that. It could decrease numbers but then like all those other issues relevant to this the mighty international corporate will swan off with support— 
Hon Tau Henare 
: Ah the ones that pay you fullas’ wages. 
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA 
: No no—with support I tell Mr Henare.