Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): I rise on behalf of New Zealand First and in particular my colleague Denis O'Rourke who saw most of this bill through the Local Government and Environment Committee process and I trust that I will do him justice by taking his slot.I want to start by making it very very clear to the House that New Zealand First is not going to go through this election talking about bottom lines except for on this matter. We wish to make it very very clear as a party that if any party in this House today debating this bill and voting for it in particular wishes to be in Government with us post—23 September they will have to accept that we will repeal this bill. I am saying it again: New Zealand First is making it very very clear that if this bill passes in this third reading those parties that vote for it—if they wish to be in Government with New Zealand First post—September 2017—had better accept that this bill will be repealed.When New Zealand First first spoke to the Government we said we were willing to cooperate on any amendment any change to the resource legislation so long as it was aimed at simplification so long as it was aimed at reducing delays so long as it was aimed at reducing costs so long as it was user friendly and so long as it did adequately provide land for housing but without compromising the Act. We said that those things would be subject to a number of things such as our belief and our adherence to the principle of there being one law for all regardless of race creed or ethnicity. Marama Fox: That'd be nice. When will that happen?RON MARK: We said that we would preserve sections 5—I will get to Marama Fox soon. We said that we would preserve sections 5 6 and 7 but with climate change as a matter of national imperative subject to preserving district city and regional council democracy and not undermining that in the same way that this Government did in 2013 with the local government amendment bill. We said we would support the bill so long as it ensured adequate land for housing without compromising the Act and with no excessive resorting to crude executive ministerial powers of the like that this bill now entrenches especially when it comes to overriding local democracy and the people's view of how the resources within their territories should be used should be managed and how development should occur.Those were the fundamentals of the ground that we laid out in an offer to assist this Government should it choose to engage with the Rt Hon Winston Peters. But it did not. Where are we now? We are in a situation now where we are watching—oh and one of the other things that we made very clear in this debate along the way is that we are going to get rid of the Māori Party through the election process because people will see through this legislation exactly what they have got. They have got a Government that is now in an outrageous situation where this House is by the thinnest skin of majority going to pass legislation because the tail is wagging the mongrel Government dog like a lamb—like a lamb.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): No no the member will resume his seat. I just want to warn the member that though this is a sensitive debate—it is a debate where there are strongly held views on both sides but and I say this as a loving owner of dogs it is not appropriate to describe a Government in that way.RON MARK: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker for your guidance. It is interesting that the Assistant Speaker should raise the issue—Hon David Bennett: Why don't we hear Shane Jones give us the real oil?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! David Bennett can you please just try to control yourself especially using words like that.RON MARK: Thank you. I am going to take the cue about this being a sensitive debate and I am going to make the observation of how bizarre we are. New Zealand First often refers in this House to Pepsi-Coke governance" and "Pepsi-Coke legislation" and we have another one of these Pepsi-Coke moments where Labour is championing against something that it we would say did in the past. I go back to 2003 and I can go back to 2004 when this very same Government railed against Labour for doing the very same sorts of things.Let me just for the benefit of the Māori Party which is so in love with its new friends over that side read out a quote: "I turn now to some of the loopy provisions that provide for the protection of ancestral landscapes. We—New Zealand First ACT and National—ask members opposite to tell us what an ancestral landscape is." It goes on to say: "I ask members to look at the fiasco at Ngawha Prison and the conduct of Ngāpuhi. What will this bill do to remove the 'brownmail' that is going on in New Zealand whereby Māori organisations object as of right—right through [the process]? I am happy to table the documents that confirm that is going on. This bill will make it worse and that is bad for race relations bad for the environment and bad for the economy—and this bill does absolutely nought in that regard. I come now to the dirty tricks part of the bill." That was the Hon Nick Smith on 6 May 2003 speaking against the Labour Government which was ramming through Resource Management Act amendments.But wait there is more—on 14 December 2004: "Then we come to some of the detailed issues. Why is it that members opposite are going to amend the Resource Management Act to make Māori iwi authorities into public bodies? That is a revolutionary constitutional change. I am sure Clayton Cosgrove has not been telling his constituents in Waimakariri that he is off to Parliament saying that Ngāi Tahu is no longer a private body but a public body that will have regulatory powers normally restricted to publicly elected bodies—and that is a step"—get this—"that is a step backwards that takes us further down the road to having two standards of citizenship in this country." Who said that? Nick Smith. The Hon Nick Smith—Chris Hipkins: That's because he's a hypocrite.RON MARK: —in his Pepsi-Coke moment of attacking Labour which was passing similar—in fact we would say in New Zealand First the exact same—measures into legislation. Chris Hipkins: A hypocrite Nick.RON MARK: But he was not finished there.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! The member will resume his seat. Chris Hipkins will stand withdraw and apologise.Chris Hipkins: I withdraw and apologise.RON MARK: There is more. But wait there is more: "Nor do we see anything in this bill that will enable us to address the huge and growing problem of iwi holding communities to ransom and effectively asking for"—wait for it—'brownmail' in order for the projects to proceed." Not brown male—m-a-l-e; this is "brownmail"—m-a-i-l.This is precisely what New Zealand First has been trying to tell the Hon Mr Nick Smith the Minister who has brought this debacle to the House. This Minister should stand up and withdraw the bill and apologise to the nation because this Minister campaigned on those words of "brownmail" on Māori entities being—look at me Mr Smith; I am trying to help you—made into public bodies usurping the democratic rights of the citizens the districts and the regions of New Zealand.Mr Smith there is a word that nobody is allowed to use in this House but it is ringing in my ears right now as we sit here in the third reading waiting for the votes to be passed. The irony of all of this is that this bill will only get through because the Māori Party is supporting the man who knows that it is going to "brownmail" the rest of Aotearoa. In every development in every consent in every opportunity where someone is trying to free up land to build a house in will come the iwi with a non-mandated—well now with a statutory power assisted by the Minister with his new overriding powers to override the objections of Federated Farmers of the chambers of commerce. He will put his weight behind those Māori entities that he is cementing into law.There is one line that rings in my ear. New Zealand First stands for equality. New Zealand First stands for one nation for one people for one law for all and it is our belief in this Parliament that the fundamental principle of democracy is that we are all created equal in God's eyes and nothing in legislation will ever change that no matter how many flip-flops Mr Nick Smith makes.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I am going to Marama Fox but I just want to make it clear that this is a call that has been substituted from the National Party and is therefore a 10-minute call not a 5-minute call."