Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Labour): What a disgraceful shameful day for this Government. This is such a shameful day. Particularly these Māori members—Jenny Marcroft: Pick another word.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —they should hang their heads and shame. Jenny Marcroft you're a disgrace. You're a total—do you laugh away? But this Government only knows how to tear things down rather than build New Zealand up.Now what was this all about? What was this all about? This National Government doesn't even know. Why are they repealing the Water Services Act? Well that's right: because all the Māoris are going to steal the water and that's why they're repealing the Act. That's what they're responding to: they're responding to all the Māoris are going to steal the water and they're responding sadly to their racist supporters who were running these lines running the issue up they were running these lines in the region. It's shameful. Jenny Marcroft knows this better than anyone. She was part of Labour at the time—and trying to join Labour at the time. So she knows of the racism that was happening out in the regions. It's a spiteful policy from the right. It's a reactionary response.Now Labour we foresaw this—we foresaw this. We embarked on a water reforms programme. As the Opposition will know John Key's Government sold 49 percent of our hydro water assets and triggered a Māori claim on water that the Waitangi Tribunal ruling told the Crown that Māori did have an interest in water and that it was the Crown's obligation to work it out. So that's what this Labour Government was attempting to do and I want to mihi to our tuahine Nanaia Mahuta for her courage in driving this kaupapa. What was Nanaia Mahuta's big sin everyone? Oh that's right. She wanted a partnership with Māori and the Crown. Oh God it was so—that was so scary. It was so shameful. How dare Nanaia go down that track—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Full names.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: —of trying to get a partnership with Māori and the Crown and trying to balance things in terms of water. Oh why wouldn't you have Tainui and Ngāi Tahu involved in trying to solve this water problem? They've got quite big asset bases. This bill was always going to be huge and Māori do have a relationship with the water that the Opposition had forgotten—particularly the Māori members as I said who should hang their heads in shame—and so how dare this Minister go down that track. And what did Nanaia Mahuta get for that? I ask Māori members here today: what did she get? She got the most shameful racist attacks in the history of this Parliament—in the history of this Parliament. She was attacked personalised compared to apes—gorillas—it was a bloody disgrace. This Parliament should hang its head in shame in terms of the attacks on our tuahine. So today I want to mihi to her. I want to mihi to her for her courage for her bravery for her strength.E mihi ana ki a koe e te tuahine mō tō kaha ki te kawe i tēnei kaupapa ki te kōkiri i tēnei kaupapa i ngā wā katoa ahakoa he nui te whakaparahako ki a koe Nanaia e tika kia mihi ki a koe mō tō kaha ki te tautoko i tēnei kaupapa mō ngā iwi katoa.[I acknowledge you sister for your strength to carry this initiative to progress this initiative at all times despite the scale of the discrimination of you Nanaia. It is appropriate to acknowledge you for your strength to support this work for all people.]It is appropriate that we remember that particularly members on this side who saw what she went through and had to put up with this rubbish from the other side. We saw the three waters billboards—it was a bloody disgrace. They can laugh about it or whatever but I want to mihi to her and mihi to Kieran McAnulty who took up the challenge and tried to explain partnership tried to explain co-governance; that it wasn't going to bring the nation to its knees like the disgraceful former Mayor of Wellington tried to say earlier today.In terms of National it's a punch in the face for Māoridom and a slap in the face to domestic water users. The National Government with support from ACT and New Zealand First live in a magical fairy world where a lack of new funding for water infrastructure and no Government guarantee on the new entities will all be unbelievably solved by local councils. The Auckland Council has already said it's impossible for Watercare to be carved off without a Government guarantee which is something the Prime Minister and the wonderful local government Minister has ruled out. They want to set up a system but they don't want to pay for it. Instead of protecting domestic water users from enormous jumps on user-pays this right-wing Government is promising them. That's where we're going: it's all user-pays. The Prime Minister refuses to tell Kiwis how much his expensive water policy is going to cost alongside the inevitable legal action from Māoridom. We know there's no alternative.Where will the Prime Minister and local government Minister be when the local elections are on? I think we're all going to get the popcorn there because we'll know that we'll be debating a water crisis that this Government has manufactured. Will the Prime Minister and the local government be explaining to ratepayers—here's the big question: will they be explaining to ratepayers how their rates have just exploded? I can bet you right now that the PM and local government Minister won't be anywhere near this deeply flawed water policy once ratepayers and renters see the spike in prices.How on all earth is this Government going to convince bond investors and rating agencies to lend to these new water assets without a Government guarantee? These are some of the questions that we put through committee. So why are we on the left having to lecture our friends on the right about capitalism? I mean it's amazing really how the left have to look after the right—Hon Phil Twyford: That's all this comes down to.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: It's incredible isn't it Phil Twyford? We already have to lecture them on race relations. Now we have to talk to them about the basics of capitalism. But the left I suppose will always have to do that to people on that side. There's no new money for investment and without any Government guarantees you can't get an investment. It's pretty simple.That side of the House doesn't care because as we all know they're all rich cats on the other side who can afford to pay their water rates—all rich cats. They don't want to know about the average person and they don't care if the rates go up because politically they can say Well it's all the council's fault. It's not our fault it's all the council's fault." We know the kōrero that's coming. They're screwing the scrum—they're screwing the scrum the former disgraced Mayor of Wellington. They're smearing—and the former disgraced Jenny Marcroft from Labour.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! No personal—keep the standards up please.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: OK Madam Speaker. Thank you. But they're screwing the scrum Madam Speaker. They're screwing the scrum against ordinary Kiwis. In terms of this it's more important for the right to repeal the Water Services Act and cause all the damage that it will do just to placate their far-right thinktanks and their redneck supporters out in the regions.Hon Member: That's most New Zealanders you're blaming.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: No it's not most New Zealanders. Most New Zealanders don't care. Most New Zealanders care about water and we will be found to be on the right side of history.That side of the House sold this water reform as stealing the water for Māori and they're now left with a system that will not work. You mark our words: this is a Government that only knows how to tear down and when they do build it'll cost Kiwis an arm and a leg. We know this. We know that this will be true.I think that it's been one of the saddest campaigns that I have witnessed in many many years. The irresponsibility from that side it will all come home to roost because we know the three-headed monster on the other side just will not be able to cope and manage the type of criticism that will come their way once the rates go up. The people will not put up with it. They will realise the real agenda of the right was always to privatise the water. We know that that's where it's going. We know it's going; their whole front was "Boot the Māoris boot the Māoris the Māoris are trying to steal the water." But we know what the real strategy is and it's about those rates going up. It's about placating their rich right-wing thinktanks. A shameful shameful day for this Government who should hang their heads in shame."