Woolerton R Doug: Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Woolerton R Doug: Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
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R DOUG WOOLERTON (NZ First) 
: 
 I just want to cover a couple of points made by Eric Roy when he mockingly said I would be quivering in my boots at this legislation. Of course he is right because I and some of my colleagues voted against the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act the one put into this Chamber by Mr John Luxton when he was the Minister for Food Fibre Biosecurity and Border Control. It broke up the monopoly of the Dairy Board and allowed Fonterra to become a monopoly to a degree. Before that it was not possible to start up a private dairy company as we know. While Mr Luxton was changing the law for the dairy industry he was proceeding with plans to start up his own dairy factory and that is what he did. The National Party thinks that that is good business. I do not think it is the right thing to do. Yes Mr Luxton obeyed the letter of the law as we do but did he do what was morally right? No he did not and neither did his colleague Mr Wyatt Creech. He also did not do what was morally right but now they both have a very successful dairy company which they are about to lose control of. Mr Talley is going to own that dairy company in Matamata and Mr Luxton and Mr Creech will do very well out of that. So I will not be going to great lengths to thank Mr Luxton for the Dairy Board restructuring or indeed for any of the legislation that followed. 
We in New Zealand First do worry about those sorts of things because the laws that allowed the dairy industry to become huge and great and internationally competitive are now bit by bit being dismantled. Part of that is the record-keeping that we hear the members of the National Party talking about in LIC based in Hamilton which has an amazing database. It is one of the most amazing outfits in the world when it comes to genetics for dairy cows. There have been many assaults on the Livestock Improvement Corporation which is what it was known as then. People have wanted to get access to its database and access to its information for years not for the assistance of the dairy industry and not to progress our enterprises but for their own material gain. That has been staved off but for how much longer one wonders? 
The arguments are always along the lines of those we have heard today: that opening up access to that information to everybody and his or her mother’s dog will help things in New Zealand and in other countries. We in New Zealand First want to know how it will do that because we do not believe it will. We think that information should be protected for the benefit of the people who paid for it for the people who set it up and for the people— 
Eric Roy 
: It’s xenophobic! 
R DOUG WOOLERTON 
: It is not xenophobic; it is called looking after one’s best interests. 
Hon David Carter 
: It’s communism too! 
R DOUG WOOLERTON 
: No it is not about communism. New Zealand First supports PGG Wrightson and the sort of enterprises it is involved in overseas such as operating dairy farms in Chile and that sort of thing because hopefully the money will return here. But we do not support people who come here and take our money back to their country. 
Eric Roy 
: Oh so we don’t have reciprocity. It’s a one-way street. 
R DOUG WOOLERTON 
: We do have a one-way street. Those members over there used to believe in reciprocity in the sheep industry and they used to believe in a fair go. 
I remember my father telling me about the days when the farmers in the South Island would toddle across to Tooley Street—I do not like to bring the Chair in but this is of interest to people I am sure—and the English of the day used to treat them to drinks look after them and give their wives little presents. And they would do the farmers like a dinner. My forebears in the dairy industry thought that that was for toffs and idiots who did not know how the world worked. We believed that an industry should be tied up by those who owned it and should operate for their benefit. But no no the people across the Chamber who come from sheep and beef stock backgrounds believed that we should give the wealthy English lords and ladies their cut of the pie. They have done so and they still do today. 
I hope those people are happy about that because in the dairy industry we think that is nonsense. In the dairy industry we think that is a rip-off. In the dairy industry we think that is just childish naive behaviour. We think the dairy industry should be run for the benefit of the farmers not for the benefit of the ticket-clippers throughout the world. That is the way the dairy industry has been run and that is what has made it great over and above other industries that have been going a lot longer than it and that were in fact seen as the premier industries in the agricultural business. 
New Zealand First reluctantly supports this bill. We make the points I have made: that it is certainly a sad day when we see people gradually losing control of their industry supported by the National Party. [ 
Interruption 
] While I am making this speech I am being mocked by the very people whom farmers put into this Parliament thinking they would support farmers. I am here to tell farmers not to rely on the National Party for the support of their industry sadly.