Peters Winston: General Debates 
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Peters Winston: General Debates 
[Sitting date: 15 October 2003. Volume:612;Page:9199. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 The sorry record of the Minister of Immigration should be of serious concern to every woman in this country. Every bogus asylum-seeker fake refugee and overstayer in this country hides behind the skirts of Lianne Dalziel and to her great shame she makes those people welcome. That Minister laughed in Parliament yesterday about a fake refugee called Mohammed Saidi who has preyed on not one but four New Zealand women since he came here. When one of those women approached the Minister for help that woman was not helped in any way by this so-called champion of New Zealand women’s rights. 
After the Minister laughed about the Saidi case yesterday we approached one of the victims and asked her how Lianne Dalziel had helped her and how she felt about the Minister’s performance. She wrote back: “Dear Mr Peters This is how we felt by the treatment of the Minister of Immigration: 1. Like the criminal not the victim. 2. Frustrated by the lack of action and the lengthy gaps between my correspondence and hers. 3. Fobbed off with non-sensical replies. 4. Disillusioned at lack of justice. 5. Anger and disbelief at the rights given to Saidi. 6. Felt that Dalziel showed no genuine concern and tried to play down the whole situation in case it became too controversial.” She states: “Questions I have for Dalziel: 1. Why wasn’t Saidi treated like Zaui when their situations are identical? 2. What happened to ‘the further investigations being undertaken’ on Saidi? (letter from Dalziel 2nd Dec. 2002).” Lastly she states: “Latest on Saidi: He is now living with another ‘victim’ (no. 4) and he has not had any contact with his son Jamal for seven months. Thank you and good luck”. 
Lianne Dalziel does not care about the women of this country. She cares more about HIV refugees who infect New Zealand women with AIDS. Every crook fake refugee and bogus asylum-seeker in the world can come here because those people know that the Minister will hide them behind her skirts. The question I want to ask is how on earth did she become a Minister. Her performance is disgraceful. What did the women of New Zealand do to deserve a Minister who will not protect our borders from sexual predators from the Third World? What must this Government which claims to be the champion of women’s causes think of her and her woeful inadequate response to women who seek her help and protection from her regular and injudicious use of her approval stamp? Does she ever give a thought to the horrors visited upon innocent New Zealand women when she accepts every application from every piece of international flotsam and jetsam she lets into this country? 
Why does the Prime Minister shield her from the scrutiny of those who expose her callous disregard for the health and well-being of New Zealand women? It is outrageous that anyone who tries to expose her for having failed so spectacularly is attacked as being racist unfair anti-immigrant or an Asian basher. I have never seen such an incompetent performance. But more important literally hundreds and hundreds of women in this country have been abused in this way. I have given just one circumstance and have read from a letter of evidence from a woman who went to Lianne Dalziel and was totally fobbed off totally ignored. Yet here we are years on and still no investigation has been done properly. Mohammed Saidi is still here and has been granted permanent residence by Lianne Dalziel. He is on to his fourth woman victim. What sort of country is this when that sort of thing can happen in our society? It is a disgrace. 
The Minister of Immigration should be downright ashamed of herself. She should be ashamed of herself and the Prime Minister should call her to account or otherwise admit that they are aiding and abetting this victimisation of New Zealand citizens. Lianne Dalziel— 
Craig McNair 
: Should resign. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Resign? That is too good for her. She should be paying a penalty back to those poor women who are now looking after all sorts of kids all and sundry— 
Hon John Tamihere 
: Why is only one New Zealand First member in the House? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: There you are! John Tamihere agrees with her behaviour but that is no surprise. He thinks the whole thing is a joke. He thinks it is a laughing matter. He thinks it is a comedy. New Zealand First does not and when we are back within 2 years in Government over there we are going to stop this sort of thing. 
The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.