Woolerton R Doug: General Debates 
Woolerton R Doug: General Debates 
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R DOUG WOOLERTON (NZ First) 
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I want to talk about something that is increasingly of concern to me and it is increasingly of concern to my fellow New Zealanders because they talk about it all the time. I want to talk about the erosion of the Kiwi lifestyle. What this Government has done to the Kiwi lifestyle is try to annihilate it. This PC Labour Government that we have at present has done nasty things to good working-class New Zealanders. It has done things that people could never have contemplated in their wildest dreams. This is a PC Government that is interested as far as I can see only in minorities.  
I must say that if that was all it was doing that would be bad enough. But even worse than that we have a National Party Opposition that is even worse. The National Party Opposition we know from history—the new leader has said so and the new deputy will back it up—believes in more immigrants coming into this country and believes in selling more of our land. I come from the land. I am a farmer and I am very proud to be a farmer. The National Party does not support farmers and has not done so for many many years. New Zealand First on the other hand does. New Zealand First says that we want to protect this country for the people who inhabit it—be they people who have originated from other countries or be they born in this country—for they are New Zealanders and New Zealand First is here to do things in New Zealanders’ interests.  
It was not so long ago—it is certainly well within memory for me and I am not that old—that average New Zealanders or as we now call them middle-class New Zealanders in the South Island would have had as one of their ambitions—an achievable ambition I might say—a crib by a lake or a beach or something of that nature. In the North Island we call a crib a bach. My family was not fortunate enough to own one but many of my friends’ families owned a bach at the beach. They had achieved the dream of the average New Zealander.  
That dream is no longer available to middle-class New Zealanders. It is not even available to wealthy New Zealanders. It certainly is available to wealthy Americans and it certainly is available to wealthy Europeans—but we do not get elected to this House to look after Americans or Europeans. I wish the Labour Party and the National Party would understand that. We are elected to this House to look after New Zealanders and New Zealanders’ lifestyle is disappearing. It is well understood and it has been mentioned several times in this debate alone that inhabitants of countries like Australia countries in Europe and the Americas earn more salary that we do in New Zealand and that is accepted. I wish it were not so. I wish we had a real plan for growth in this country but we do not. Having accepted the fact that New Zealanders have less money and have on average less wages and less income than other people around the world it is surely necessary—even more necessary than before—to protect the one thing we have left and that is our lifestyle. If we do not protect our lifestyle we will see people going from our shores like we have never seen before.  
In fact that is happening and the National Party and the Labour Government are forced to bring people into this country by means of immigration. They are not our sons. They are not our daughters. They are people from other cultures whom we are bringing into this country. They can afford the lifestyle that we cannot. Any Government that is participating in that action is not working in the best interests of New Zealanders.