Jones Shane: General Debate 
Jones Shane: General Debate 
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Hon SHANE JONES (Labour) 
: 
 Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. To Aotearoa I say that the previous speaker was the famed westie firefighter Paula Bennett who after having arrived in the role of Minister is reduced to reading notes written by a primary school teacher because she cannot be let loose on a portfolio. Not only has she stood and misrepresented what the Job Summit has done she has failed to tell New Zealand families children mothers and fathers— 
Paul Quinn 
: How do you know? You weren’t even there. 
Hon SHANE JONES 
: Of course that was Paul Quinn the man who refuses to take responsibility for the destruction of Maori rugby in New Zealand. When is he going to resign? When is he going to stop double-dipping and give his job to Louisa Wall a real rugby advocate? However let me come back to the failed policies hidden by the previous speaker Paula Bennett—no training no human capital a complete abandonment of any prospect of productivity—as she presides over fair-minded industrious Kiwis being tossed on the scrap heap and given a morsel of 5 hours without an opportunity to transform themselves. Yet their Prime Minister boasts in the  
Wall Street Journal 
—it must have been short of news on that day. Something else was happening in Afghanistan the satellite was in the wrong place in Iraq so readers were reduced to reading John Key stating that he was going to pursue supply-side economics and shrink the State as a way of growing Aotearoa. 
But I really want to talk today about the feline behaviour displayed to us by the Maori Party. The Maori Party boasted that they would come in change the seabed and foreshore legislation and bring rangatiratanga to this House. Today we saw the kapahaka taiaha-swirling chief Dr Pita Sharples hiding behind the handsome bulk and frame of Gerry Brownlee—a rather dangerous thought. Of course Mr Brownlee was giving cover to the Maori Party which has boasted and exaggerated what it will deliver but now realises that the Foreshore and Seabed Act which it falsely believed will be overturned will never be repealed by National. I recall Gerry Brownlee and Simon Power nodding vigorously when the question of public access came up. Hone Harawira was up and down the country; he is the tomcat of that crowd over there. Now in the behaviour of Pita Sharples today we have a house cat hiding behind the master of the manor Gerry Brownlee. Not only did they fail to address the issue they have demonstrated today that they are joined because they are afraid. 
Maori Party members are afraid to stand up and admit that despite the fact that the Maori Party came into existence on the seabed and foreshore legislation they have no intention of delivering. They are hoping and they falsely believe that just because 2 or 3 years have passed John Key Gerry Brownlee and the various other acolytes of Don Brash—who only 3 to 5 years ago were smashing the daylights out of the good name of Maori people—are going to deliver. The other thing they have forgotten about is that when they say that 23000 Maori are doing the haka in joy because the seabed and foreshore legislation is going to be changed those are the people who have already lost their jobs in terms of capacity to work full-time every day. They are young people 16 17 18 19 or 20 years old. 
Dr Sharples is hoping that there will be a brilliant diversion and that all the whanau the marae and the hapu will do the haka over the seabed and foreshore and somehow forget about the fact that accident compensation is about to be stripped. They will soon lose a host of other entitlements in relation to hospital visits health visits and schools; as my learned and very influential colleague Chris Carter pointed out schools are being run down—except private schools which are going to be subsidised and bailed out. Those are the things—equity development truth righteousness—that the Maori Party parrots on about every day. They will not be delivered on. The Maori Party cannot hide behind the rhetoric about the seabed and foreshore and there is no profit in hiding behind Gerry Brownlee—emissions are both front and back in that regard. Kia tupato. 
Of course they are hoping that John Key who wanders around like a male version of a Barbie doll up and down the country celebrating his 50th birthday along with Barbie somehow can suck Aotearoa into believing that this is a friendly kind of Government. In actual fact the power base lies with Tony Ryall and Bill English. It is a wicked recipe.