Calder Cam: Joint Family Homes Repeal Bill — First Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Calder Cam: Joint Family Homes Repeal Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 25 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:3926. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Dr CAM CALDER (National) 
: 
 Tena tatou e te Whare. It is a great pleasure to rise and speak briefly on this bill the Joint Family Homes Repeal Bill. It is wonderful that occasionally we get the chance to remove legislation from the statute book that is no longer necessary. Normally we are making legislation; this is an opportunity to remove redundant legislation and I want to congratulate my colleague Simon O’Connor who very early in his career has achieved the opportunity to bring a member’s bill to the House—well done Simon. 
As we know the purpose of this Joint Family Homes Repeal Bill is to repeal the Joint Family Homes Act 1964. The bill effectively seeks to tidy up New Zealand’s existing legislation on relationship law and to ensure it is up to date and current. It is important to consider 1964. What was happening in 1964? Well in music the Beatles were storming the USA with their tour to the USA and took the top five places in the  
Billboard 
 Hot 100—the top five places in the  
Billboard 
 Hot 100. I can see Denis O’Rourke over there thinking is it “Can’t Buy Me Love”? Yes Denis it was. “Twist and Shout” Mr Mallard? Yes. “She Loves You” Parekura. That is right. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” who would be that? Yes Rino. And “Please Please Me” Charles Chauvel. Those were the top five in the  
Billboard 
 Hot 100 in 1964 when this legislation that we are repealing was enacted. 
What else was happening in 1964? In 1964 we had the Tokyo Olympics Games where Peter Snell won a gold medal in the 800 and 1500 metres. Peter Snell achieved notoriety and fame in New Zealand for the rest of his life as a double gold medallist in Tokyo. Nikita Khrushchev whom many of us may have seen pictures of banging his shoe on the table of the United Nations was mysteriously deposed from leadership of the Soviet Union. And Barbara Hepworth that well-known internationally renowned sculptor unveiled  
Single Form 
 her sculpture outside the UN headquarters. Andy Warhol of course produced his signature five Marilyns series. 
 In 1964—and there are some in the House who can probably remember—there were droves of schoolboys and schoolgirls wearing caps and berets going to school on bicycles. Yes it did happen—it did happen. Guys who erred in school cadets which was another event in 1964 that many took part in were asked to run around the field at school carrying a .303 rifle above their heads or if it was outside of school cadets and they were in the classroom they were often given a couple of cuts with a cane. 
That was then and this is now. I mention this: in the family we are talking about dad probably went to the pub there was early 6 o’clock closing and he would get home to the wife. That was another thing in 1964 that was extant then. Of course Austin Mitchell wrote about these times in his classic tome  
The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise 
. But that was then and this is now and in 2001 the Law Commission advised the repeal of the Act noting that the public has ample alternative legal devices at its disposal in its absence. I commend this bill to the House.