Williams Andrew: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWilliams Andrew: General Debate[Sitting date: 04 December 2013. Volume:695;Page:15236. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW WILLIAMS (NZ First): I hope my voice holds out for this debate. This is not a bad Government. It is not a mediocre Government. This is an awful Government. It is such a woeful Government that it is difficult to know where to start and where to stop. Well a good place to start is today. During question time today our leader the Rt Hon Winston Peters brought into the daylight just the latest in a long line of failures. We have exposed just how unethically the Government has acted over the defunct Learning Media. We have revealed how the Government changed the contract rules that are sending Learning Media into bankruptcy yet it is advancing capital to the company to repay Westpac a foreign-owned bank creditor in full. Never mind the rest. Never mind the others who will be left out of pocket—elderly investors who own the building that Learning Media resided in.The list of this Government’s failures is a long one. The recent revelations about falling education standards are deeply alarming to all those who have school-age children. I certainly can recall my three children growing up in a period when we pridedourselves on our education system and that continued right through with my last child leaving college in only the last year or so. I can recall when the school system was good and was continuing to provide for our young ones. Under this Government we have the cuts the changes the move to the likes of charter schools and the funding of $36 million to the likes of private schools to the detriment of State schools. It all goes on and on. This Government has a woeful track record in terms of education.The country has had its best terms of trade in 40 years but that is not something that this Government can take credit for. It is because of our agriculture. It is because of our dairy. It is because of our forestry our meat our seafood and all our other manufactured exports.The housing market is in crisis. The plight of first-home buyers is absolutely dire with Kiwis—good Kiwis—dreaming of homeownership and young ones sick to see what is happening. Just last week I attended an auction in my own suburb ofCampbells Bay on the North Shore and was aghast to see a small piece of land less than 500 square metres sell for over $1 million—for a bare piece of dirt. And do you know where the buyers were from? They were not good honest everyday working Kiwis. All the Kiwis got knocked out at around the $800000 mark and it was sold to people from abroad. We do not even know whether those people from abroad had New Zealand residency.Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman: That’s racist.ANDREW WILLIAMS: No it is not racist. It is what is happening Mr Coleman all over Auckland at the present time. New Zealand First stands for putting in place that you must be a New Zealand resident and you must be domiciled here in this country to purchase here. You cannot sit back in some foreign country—whether it be in Europe whether it be in the United States whether it be in Asia—and buy land from under the noses of good hard-working Kiwis.Immigration is out of control. It is a total shambles with young New Zealanders having to contend with tens of thousands of immigrants in a very weak market for jobs. For the people of Christchurch they must endure a stumbling bumbling recovery of their city. The Government has taken a bit of a bath this last weekend in Christchurch East where people are still in dire straits. The Government has plans to rejuvenate the central business district pull down perfectly good public libraries and pull down perfectly good other buildings so that it can build its convention centre down in Christchurch while people in the eastern suburbs are still suffering.Let us remember some of the many other fiascos this Government has brought about—the likes of South Canterbury Finance. It was allowed a blowout of $800 million and 6 months went by while the Government turned a blind eye as more investments were being made in South Canterbury Finance. The Government gave $30 million to RioTinto without making sure there was an assurance of job security for the future for the people of Southland. The Government was responsible for the absolute abomination that is Novopay and it allowed that hideous situation to continue where teachers in this country are still suffering from disruption to their pay cycles. The Government gave Warner Bros $67 million for a movie that grossed over $1 billion worldwide when a loan would have seen the taxpayers’ advance secured.