King Colin: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Colin: General Debate[Sitting date: 19 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16811. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]COLIN KING (National—Kaikōura):On the weekend just gone we had the most positive Bluegreens Forum that one could imagine. It was held in Kaikōura and it culminated a lot of hard work somewhere in the region of 8 or 9 years of collaborative governance. On the Sunday at the Takahanga Marae the Prime Minister gave the Government’s response to Te Korowai o Te Tai o Marokura. I would have to say being the member of Parliament for Kaikōura that it was incredibly positive when you look at the size and scope and the complexity of what was established through Te Korowai o Te Tai o Marokura. It is a marine reserve a whale sanctuary a New Zealand fur seal sanctuary five customary fisheries areas two taiāpure local fisheries and three mātaitai reserves. There will be an advisory committee and fishing regulations that are specific to the area.Just to help the listeners to the general debate understand the scope of this it spans between the Conway River and the Clarence River. It has been a work of collaborative governance. When you look at it the determination of this Government was to ensure that we had an asset for generations to come not a liability. When you look at the work that this Government has done around environmental issues you have got to say that they are at the very forefront of global policy establishment. Look at the Land and Water Forum. What a great way forward that has produced around a really difficult situation. The exclusive economic zone legislation now ensures that when anybody wants to do anything in the exclusive economic zone they have got to follow regulations. It is worth remembering that under Labour there were no regulations. There were 34 wells drilled out in that ocean space under no regulations whatsoever.When you actually look at this Government’s record around ensuring that there are enduring assets we want to also be able to look at what the Labour Government did. I go back to a situation in the Kaikōura electorate when the Prime Minister of the time pilfered all the money out of the arts culture and heritage fund and purchased for $43 million a leasehold property in North Canterbury. Can we say that that is an asset to the country to future generations? We cannot say that because at the moment there is nobody managing the noxious weeds the pests and whatever else is growing there.When we make a comparison between all the talk of what is occurring between the Greens and Labour we have got to realise that this is a very very serious combination. Effectively we have only got to look across the Tasman Sea to Tasmania and we can see what such a relationship would bring about. A lot of the conversation we have been hearing here in Parliament is around Julie Anne Genter talking about cycleways and suchlike. I would just like to draw Labour members’ attention to the point of view that when you actually look at getting your exports from the rural community to where they are further processed and then off to the ports you have got to have first-class highway systems.There is obviously a lot of conflict between the Greens and Labour. There is no doubt about it. Shane Jones has got it right. He is on our Primary Production Committee and he is a level-headed sort of person who knows what “2” and “2” make. When you look at what has happened in Tasmania and the result there the decimation of Labor because of its relationship with the Greens what do we see? We see 20 percent unemployment amongst the youth. We see a single purchasing agency for power and a 12 percent rise in electricity prices annually. Tasmania was advised by every other state in Australia to not get into bed with the Green Party. That is something that we have got to remind the Labour Party of. When Labour members speak about their level of support they talk about the level of the left the lobby of the left. In actual fact it is a combination of the Greens and Labour and that will not last. The Labor Party over in Tasmania had to sack its Green MPs and then call an election.Let us look at what we leave as an inheritance to our future generations by way of assets not liabilities. Let New Zealand be aware that we cannot afford to have a Labour-Greens Government.