Woolerton R Doug: General Debate 
Woolerton R Doug: General Debate 
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R DOUG WOOLERTON (NZ First) 
: 
 I think that speech is indicative of where the National Party is at today when an ex-trade official gets up and raves on about the fact that people are leaving New Zealand but does not talk about industry or about wealth creation or even mention Fonterra. One would have thought that the National Party would be most concerned about the potential loss to the country of this New Zealand - owned company. I know that many of the decent people in the National Party— 
Hon Clayton Cosgrove 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am aware that the general debate is a robust debate. Mr Woolerton had started his speech he was proceeding down the track and the bellows over there started blowing constantly especially Mr Brownlee. We know there will be interjections we know this is a robust debate but a constant flow of interjections and bellowing from that member is just not on. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Both sides of the House are guilty. 
R DOUG WOOLERTON 
: The fact is that when I was in the National Party many years ago this concern would have been the No. 1 concern for the National Party. Those were the days when the honourable people in the National Party used to care about the farmers in New Zealand. They used to care about productive enterprises and they used to speak proudly of them. They used to speak proudly of wealth creation; they used to speak proudly of the farmers who made companies such as Fonterra. We in New Zealand First carry on that proud tradition of course and now it is left to us to speak up on situations like this. 
We are really concerned that if this company Fonterra as is proposed is chopped off as a cooperative shifted over in its entirety to another enterprise called Fonterra Ltd then sold down— 
Gerry Brownlee 
: Yes flying cows. 
R DOUG WOOLERTON 
: It does not surprise me if Mr Gerry Brownlee makes jokes about this. He would not understand it; he understands only the things he says that he despises which are populist politics and a consumer society—and man does he know how to consume. But he does not know about wealth creation he does not know about farmers and worst of all he does not know about the roots of the National Party. He does not know about the people who made the National Party because they were the same people who made Fonterra what it is today. They were prudent New Zealanders—New Zealanders who by the sweat of their brow and by retained earnings believed that rather than enrich themselves they would enrich a company for the benefit of New Zealand. And Mr Gerry Brownlee mocks those people by making a joke of the situation and he mocks the National Party the roots of which he knows little. It saddens me that what used to be a party that had men of honour within it now no longer is in that situation. 
This company that is going to be formed from Fonterra will be sold down. 
Gerry Brownlee 
: Will it be Fonterra? New Zealand First supports that. 
R DOUG WOOLERTON 
: And that is how little those members know! They say it will still be Fonterra. They do not care. This company will take a vote and the farmers will decide but we have a legitimate role in that debate because this decision will require Government legislation. So New Zealand First and other parties in this House have a legitimate role in this debate; we will stand up to the plate and we will exercise that role. 
If this company is listed its control will go overseas first followed by its ownership. That is what has happened in every other situation of this sort. All of the work from previous generations will be lost to this country. This company produces in excess of 20 percent of New Zealand’s exports yet people in this House treat it in such a cavalier manner that they make jokes when we talk about the serious situation. This company needs to be kept in New Zealand ownership. It should not be listed and we should cherish it and look after it.