Peters Winston: Immigration Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second Reading Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee Third Reading 
Peters Winston: Immigration Amendment Bill (No 2) — Second Reading Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee Third Reading 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: Lianne Dalziel is a Minister who has so little evidence to put up that she actually comes down with a letter and seeks to hide behind it—that is one letter from an Indian. She then said that 95 percent of them were in the category of being here and not being able to get jobs. I can recall a Lianne Dalziel marching up from the bottom of town with an Indian in a baseball cap who talked about stopping “ racism”. There were a handful of MPs—Chris Carter being one of them—talking about stopping racism. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: Who’s this? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: That man from the Punjab whom the Minister was holding hands with and whom she and Chris Carter came out in sympathy with. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: Excuse me I wasn’t even there. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: The Minister cannot make a speech from the chair. When I have finished she can get up and make her speech. 
Here she is admitting every complaint New Zealand First has ever made. In the letter she says that 95 percent of this person’s colleagues are all in the same category and they cannot get jobs. I ask the Minister what the hell were they doing here? Were they accessing free medicine? Yes! Were they on a benefit? Yes! Could they get emergency housing? Yes! Who missed out? 
Opposition Members 
: We did! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Precisely! The second thing she said was that she would never see the day when Winston Peters and New Zealand First would stand up for the interests of migrants. She is so wrong. We have always believed that there should be a sound rational coherent internationally respected immigration policy but that is not 72000 migrants a year. That is probably between 10000 and 15000 a year. Who said that? Annette King said that when she was the spokesperson for Labour back in 1996 when it was polling 16 percent and we were polling 32 percent. Labour members decided to adopt our policy. They said that between 10000 and 15000 immigrants should be coming here and in their time they brought in over 72000 per year. 
A little while ago the Minister said that this global prioritisation programme was an excellent idea. On  
Morning Report 
 this morning she was asked: “Who’s going to administer the global prioritisation programme on the ground?”. She did not know. Her answer was: “We’ll do it through trade fairs.” Here is the great spin-doctor of Helen Clark’s office at work! The whole thing is to get rid of doctors driving taxis. We have to ask ourselves this question—and it is a very simple one—how many doctors are driving taxis? Are 72000 doctors driving taxis? No! Are 1000 doctors driving taxis? No! Are some hundreds driving taxis? Yes but to get rid of the syndrome of overqualified people driving taxis we are to take 72000 alongside them. 
United Future members then come along and say that they will support the policy because New Zealand will get rural doctors—72000 rural doctors now apparently. That is extraordinarily naive on the part of United Future members and it has no bearing whatsoever on the facts. I say to them one more time that the shape face character and future of this country is being turned upside down beyond our parents’ wildest recognition. Today one of the biggest sections of letters to that most liberal institution—namely  
Craccum 
 of Auckland University—comes from students who say: “What the hell am I doing walking around this campus when I can’t read anything in English there. It is all in Mandarin Cantonese and everything but English.” A whole lot of students who would normally be liberal-minded are saying: “I am being shut out of my own country. I’m not getting a fair go in my own land.” These are students who would normally be tolerant. 
Pita Paraone 
: What about Maori? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: The terrible thing about the Maori people is that—apart from New Zealand First—they have no voice at all in this Parliament. We just heard two Maori members take a call which lasted for only 1 minute in total.