Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Today I want to start my debate by acknowledging the passing of my dear friend Nancy Langton. Nancy passed away last week and has left us all in the Labour Party in the Bay of Plenty grieving for her passing. She took some sparkle from this world. At 80 years Nancy succumbed to cancer and left us too soon actually. I want to name her in this Parliament to acknowledge her energy and her courage and her kindness. I send my aroha to her partner and husband Russell—61 years their relationship—and to her wider family. Nancy spoke with courage and she spoke her truth without hurting others. So today in this general debate I have her sitting on my shoulder as I talk about matters that have deeply troubled me in this House recently.I want to mihi to our Māori colleagues in this House who have had to listen to divisive statements from the Opposition who have thought that equity of outcomes are a separatist agenda of the Labour Government. Where Labour have sought to address the inequalities of outcomes the Opposition tells us that we are doing something different. They are setting us up to divide a nation.For example we have just recently announced the Māori Health Authority reform and the Māori health reform. We have done this because Māori life expectancy is lower than for non-Māori; mortality rates are higher for Māori in nearly all ages. Māori health status remains unequal across almost all chronic and infectious diseases as well as injuries including suicide. When we take off our rose-tinted glasses and look at equity versus equality then the evidence for a Māori health authority is clear and the discussion about a separatist organisation us doing things in a divisive way is something that I find distasteful. We have heard today lots of conversations about the difficulties of talking around policies that support equity. I think it is really important that we acknowledge that these might be uncomfortable conversations for some but we should continue to have those conversations.Simeon Brown: Yes let's have a national debate about it.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: And we should continue to have time to listen to each other—Simeon Brown: And a national debate.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —and not yell over each other and not make it harder for us to have honest conversations.I want to come now to the second matter and the second matter is in regards to the code of behaviour that the MPs across this entire House signed in the last term and new members as they've entered this House have signed up to. The code of behaviour was a piece of work that I did alongside a cross-party membership so all parties were represented. There was the Hon Anne Tolley chairing that group and we had the unions media Parliamentary Services and Ministerial Services participating. I want to just at this time without going into lots more detail remind the members of this House what that code of conduct or code of behaviour says. It says that we should show that bullying and harassment including sexual harassment"—Simeon Brown: Well the Speaker's failed on that one.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —"is unacceptable." It says that we must "speak up"—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Simeon Brown will stand withdraw and apologise.Simeon Brown: Withdraw and apologise.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Don't do it again.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —thank you Mr Speaker—"if we observe unacceptable behaviour." It says we must "use our position of power or influence to help others and avoid harm." It says we must "act respectfully and professionally." It says we must "behave fairly and genuinely treating others the way we would like to be treated." It says we "encourage diverse perspectives and the free and frank expression"—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."