Robertson Grant: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRobertson Grant: General Debate[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17326. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central): Not one word from that Minister to defend Judith Collins. Not one single word from Steven Joyce to defend Judith Collins because he is enjoying every single minute of this. The so-called “Crusher” Collins the powerful person who backs down to nobody sneaks out the back door of this House. She did not face the media on the way in and she did not face the media on the way out. That is because she has something to hide. She does not want to front up to New Zealanders about what she did. The great “Crusher” Collins has been crushed. She has been crushed because she has refused to front up to New Zealanders.Do not mistake it for a minute. There is a reason why John Key has not got rid of Judith Collins. It is because he is donkey deep in this Oravida saga. He is the recipient of $56000 worth of donations that we know about and there could well be more. He is playing golf with the chairman. But he has also managed to appear in advertisements for Oravida Ltd. I did not know that John Key was a fan of Monty Python until yesterday when this advertisement appeared. It is a large advertisement—that is what I would call it—for Oravida Ltd which appeared in a Chinese airline magazine. Down at the bottom of this picture of MrGoodfellow’s scampi that is here we have a picture of John Key. That would be John Key at the bottom of this. The Chinese translation here says that John Key hosted a banquet for important Chinese people—presumably a banquet with this scampi in it. But it is OK—it is OK—because John Key’s office said that this is not an advertisement. As they say I know a dead parrot when I see one and this is a dead parrot. This is an advertisement. John Key is right in the middle of this Oravida saga and that is why he is refusing to sack Judith Collins.Let us make sure that everybody is absolutely clear here. On a $30000 ministerial visit to China for the Minister of Justice she pre-arranged two meetings with the Oravida directors one in Shanghai and one in Beijing. Let us be clear. Stone Shi and JuliaXu travelled with Judith Collins on this trip. They were in Beijing for the dinner and then they were in Shanghai 2 days later for her to visit their offices. This was not the Minister of Justice on her own on a ministerial trip; this was the Minister of Justice pre-arranging visits with the fellow directors of Oravida who were there along with her husband. Again her husband is a director of five companies associated with Oravida Ltd associated with Stone Shi and JuliaXu. These were pre-arranged meetings that she has sought to cover up from the beginning claiming that she popped in on the way to the airport when she had to drive 30 kilometres in the wrong direction to actually get toOravida’s headquarters.She then sought to cover up a dinner—a dinner with an official from a border control agency. I am sure that that person was from the General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine the agency responsible for whether or notOravida’s products get into China. We know because JuliaXu went on Television One’sQ+A programme and said it that Oravida was having trouble getting products into China. JuliaXu then wrote to Tim Groser and Nathan Guy and said: “We are having trouble getting our products into China. Please intervene.” And then Judith Collins ended up at a dinner with a senior official from the agency responsible for getting those products in.She was there working on behalf of her husband’s company. She was there in a clear conflict of interest situation. If John Key had any standards whatsoever for his Ministers she would be gone. Pansy Wong went. Richard Worth went. Judith Collins should be gone. The taxpayers of New Zealand deserve far better than the cronyism and corruption of John Key’s Government. Judith Collins does not deserve to be a Minister.She should go. John Key should know that New Zealanders expect a fair go for all companies and all people. That is not what they are getting at the moment. What they are getting is Oravida a company that Judith Collins is closely associated with being preferred over other companies. That is called cronyism. That is called corruption. That is the National Government.