Cunliffe David: Passports Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second ReadingText is subject to correctionCunliffe David: Passports Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 08 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:1. Text is subject to correction.]Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE (Labour—New Lynn):This is one of those occasions when we have pleasure in supporting the Government and particular pleasure in following the oratory of the speaker who has just resumed her seat Sarah Dowie for whom there is nothing worse than a short-life 5-year passport—someone who has been known to fly everywhere including to obscure countries. It is heartening to know that this crowning achievement of the member’s parliamentary career has been delivered at this moment and it is a pleasure to see a member so excited about coming to work to achieve the magnitude of change that is being delivered to the people of New Zealand. But there is just a little sobering memento that I might offer the member as she genuflects upon her life’s calling and it is this. This was in the Labour Party’s 2014 election manifesto brought to you by none other than the Chris Bishop lookalike the Hon Trevor Mallard. Thank you Trevor for making Sarah Dowie’s parliamentary career great. It is all downhill from here.Chris Bishop: Go Trevor—well done!Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE: Go Trevor. Go Trevor—well done! Even Chris Bishop is rising to his feet to congratulate the electorate member for Hutt South. I think that is tremendous and it is heart-warming to see the House rising in unison. All around the House as I look around at both the members who are here at 9 p.m. I see the genuine look of delight on the faces of members opposite as they know they have seized the moment—carpe diem vita brevis. Life is short rise to the challenge get this 10-year passport across the line implement Labour’s 2014 election manifesto and drive it home—drive it home. I am delighted to see the member in a positive lather of excitement as she gets her hot little hand on the 10-year passport which I am sure she will stretch to buy for purely emotive reasons because why have a 5-year travel document when you can have a longer one.The second thing that this momentous occasion teaches us is that the Government is good at nothing so much as copying good ideas from the Labour Party. In fact you can pretty much reel off a long list of them—Working for Families. How about increasing the refugee intake? What a very important week it is and I acknowledge the work of our Green colleagues there who have been working arm in arm with Labour over the last week to give National just a little bit of moral backbone. I think it was a National Prime Minister who once—and I will not discuss the subject—described somebody as being a whole lot of chills cold shivers looking for a backbone to walk up. How that phrase has come to roost—Paul Foster-Bell: It was Bill Rowling.Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE: I know. It now applies to John Key. It took a week of sustained pressure—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order!Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE: —from the New Zealand people to get a 10-year passport that our increased refugee quota can use once they get here. So I would implore the member opposite the member for First World problems to spare a little thought as she recounts to her grandchildren those wondrous days in Wimbledon. She reminds those folks because her grandchildren will probably be married then into a Syrian refugee family that the time has come to celebrate the actual principles that New Zealand was founded on: Jack and Jill are as good as their masters and everybody deserves a fair go. It is those ethics that mean that we are well-respected around the world and it is this party this side of the House that has always stood up for them. Thank you.