Peters Winston: Immigration Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
Peters Winston: Immigration Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 That was by way of a speech in support of legislation that is demonstrably bad for the people of Rotorua for the Bay of Plenty for the Maori people that she purports to represent and for every New Zealander. The simple fact of the matter is that a recent survey—[ 
Interruption 
] They can scream all they like because they are nervous—showed that 84 percent of New Zealanders were against this bill. But why am I surprised that this Government carries on regardless? Government members are arrogant. 
[ 
Interruption 
] As for “solar dome” over there he can make every smart alec comment he likes but if I looked old before my time I would shut up. If I looked like an old man in a hurry I would keep quiet. A nonentity from Dunedin who spent all his time sycophantically at the local authority comes to this Parliament—the only promotion he will ever get is to be senior whip; he cannot be a Minister he does not have the capacity—and sits over there making all the imitations of a walrus. 
The reality is that 84 percent of New Zealanders are against this bill. [ 
Interruption 
] The fiscal benefits the economic benefits— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: No Mr Speaker I do not mind Mr Benson-Pope making a fool of himself. But I know that down in Dunedin they are against this bill. Down in the Deep South they are against this bill. All around New Zealand the blue-collar worker—the poor guy or woman out there with three jobs who wants to make a living but cannot afford a home cannot get an operation cannot get an education cannot get into his or her own town because of traffic jams—is against this bill. No amount of shouting on the part of the Labour Party will change my views on this bill. 
Can members tell me why we have over 400 cases of TB in this country today a disease we once thought we were on top of—when we were young when once a decent party called Labour and National got on top of it? It was not like this present bunch of fly-by-night opportunists. We have over 400 cases of tuberculosis in this country. We have 500 babies born to foreign parents because they want to access our benefit system. I see ladies who cannot get a cataract operation or a hip operation. 
The Labour Party poses as the working man’s friend. Labour members would not know what a working man looked like. Look at their hands and appearance—soft arrogant useless! They would not know a worker if they saw one. They come here every day and sell out the working people of New Zealand. That is why in 2 years’ time these marshmallow milksops will be out and they will not be laughing then. Oh no they will be down to the job queue then. I hope they have a long time on the job queue because they are not competent to do anything else. 
How come we have New Zealanders who cannot buy a home any more in this country? How come the price of houses in Auckland is going through the roof—up 20 percent in 1 year? What person can save that sort of deposit? I bet David Cunliffe cannot. 
Hon David Cunliffe 
: I bet I cannot. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I bet he cannot. House prices are rising 20 percent in 1 year—what young New Zealander can save that fast? I bet they cannot. Why do I ask them what the working man working woman and middle New Zealand think? They would not know about that. This is a strange queer odd bunch—an odd assortment. They are not normal not usual. 
Hon David Cunliffe 
: It’s Pauline Hanson back again! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: If I were gay and wanted a home they would have a policy for that. If I were gay and wanted to get into hospital they would have a policy for that. But when it comes to ordinary hardworking normal New Zealanders “No thank you” is the Labour Party’s message. House prices are skyrocketing and there are long waiting lists in our hospitals. 
Why do I read in the last Ministry of Social Development report that 7000 of the people looking for work are recent immigrants and that in Auckland 12000 migrants are known to be unemployed? If I worked selling cars for a Mercedes Benz company in Auckland how come I would find people of Asian extraction in the main giving me $140000 in cash? 
Government Member 
: Cash? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Not cheques—straight cash. Do members think that the Inland Revenue Department knows about that? We have an economy going on in this country that those people know nothing about. In Tauranga—and in Hawke's Bay—we are losing tens and tens of millions of dollars a year because picking and pruning in the horticulture industry is controlled by fly-by-night foreigners who do not pay PAYE accident compensation and the taxes of the ordinary workers. The Inland Revenue Department has reported to those people over there and they do not want to know. 
Government members have predicated the future on a massive growth rate and immigration. Do members know how many people have gone to Australia from overseas for the last 10 years? Each year 82000 go to Australia; for New Zealand last year—a country seven times smaller—the figure was 72500. [ 
Interruption 
] As for the Minister of Police he can make those sorts of noises. He is the most incompetent Minister of Police this country has ever seen. Crime is going through the roof. 
Dail Jones 
: In his electorate. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Yes in his electorate. The fastest growing industry is the security industry because he cannot do his job. Fifty-two percent of the people who are burgled in this country do not report the burglary. Of the people who do he resolves 40 percent. If I were that incompetent I would resign tomorrow. I would go back to being the incompetent mayor I once was. [ 
Interruption 
] We can always tell when we have struck a nerve in this Parliament—Government members start shouting and try to over-talk us. They make the noises of animals—not just the noises but the smells as well. 
The reality is that we have a hopeless Minister of Immigration. This Minister is so hopeless that the bill comes back and I did not see her speak to it. This bill is so bad that Lianne Dalziel the Minister of Immigration will not make a speech about it. She puts up Chris Carter the Minister of Ethnic Affairs. I do not know what sort of ethnic affair that is but we do not want a part of it. We do not want a bar of that sort of ethnic affair. We like things upfront. 
Hon David Cunliffe 
: We know you like things upfront. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Not around the back like George. If those gentlemen cannot take it they should not dish it out. We can and we have a black book as long as their arm. If they want to get smart then we are the people— 
Interruption 
] As Elvis Presley once said: “If you’re looking for trouble you’ve come to the right place.” 
We have a Minister who is not prepared to defend her own bill. That is why it should be thrown out. The fact that the parliamentary lapdog United Future votes for it is neither here nor there.