Auchinvole Chris: Immigration Amendment Bill — First Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Auchinvole Chris: Immigration Amendment Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 03 May 2012. Volume:679;Page:1964. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE (National) 
: 
 What an opportunity one would think to follow in the speaking order two political luminaries Charles Chauvel for Labour and the Rt Hon Winston Peters for New Zealand First. What an opportunity to listen as they match themselves blow for blow riposte and counter-riposte the sharp exchange of finely honed arguments against policy perception but no! No! All we had from Charles sadly was a party political diatribe against National taking sensible and prudent legislative steps towards a likelihood of mass arrivals of illegal immigrants.  
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. There is no one in this House called Charles. Perhaps Sir Charles or the honourable Charles and his full name but not just Charles. We cannot lower our standards here any more. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Order! [ 
Interruption 
] No I am dealing with the point of order. The member is correct. I know that the member in future will abide by the rulings. Members are called by their full names. 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: I am very happy to do that Mr Assistant Speaker. Charles Chauvel is a person who does not—I do not think—lose any standing through simply being known as Charles but as the Rt Hon Mr Winston Peters would prefer I will refer to him as Charles Chauvel. But all we heard from Charles Chauvel were the groans about taking legislative steps towards the likelihood of mass arrivals of illegal immigrants. I have no doubt that Mr Chauvel would also be one of the first to say that we are unprepared once the arrivals do occur if we have not got this type of legislation under way.  
Then we heard from the Rt Hon Winston Peters—a person who is I trust immensely proud of his Scottish ancestry as we should all be proud of the genetic mix that our human bodies glory in. But what did we hear from Mr Peters? We heard about Epsom John Banks and student loans and we heard a moan over overstayers. He said: “You don’t even know who they are. Mind you they are not Asian they are not Pacific and they are not Maori.” So— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Well they could hardly be Maori could they? 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: I do not know about that but let us talk about Maori migration. There is a bigger Maori migration now to Australia which is larger than the first one that occurred during the period of the Labour Government— 
Hon Members 
: Oh! 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: —that occurred during the period of the Labour Government— 
Hon Clayton Cosgrove 
: I seek leave to table the latest immigration figures from Immigration New Zealand showing 1000 people a week are leaving this country—it may reinforce the member’s point that he has just made—under his Government. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: That is an interruption of a member’s speech. It is proper that you can ask for leave but I just would have thought that at the end of a speech you might want to seek leave then. But you have sought leave and it is proper that you can do that. Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is objection. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It will certainly lead to disorder if a member of this House can get up and accuse the Maori people of being both boat people and overstayers when they have been here 1000 years.  
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: These are debatable points— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Oh no it’s not. What? 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: I am on my feet. In the course of this debate there will be I am sure some robust debate.  
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: I do not actually expect too much in the way—and I do no think any other member of the House will expect too much in the way—of general courtesy from some of the speakers who raise points of order. We are not going to be particularly upset by them. Mr Cosgrove we love you anyway—we love you anyway.  
But back to the speech from Mr Winston Peters. In fact the whole speech was a shibboleth because it came through with no substance. It was only towards the end that he started to cite what he thinks should be included in this type of legislation. I would suggest to him that a modicum of thought will show that in fact the points he has raised are there and he would do well to support the bill the Immigration Amendment Bill in its entirety because this bill has a number of key messages. It takes a firm stance on illegal immigration ventures. We continue to work with our international partners on combating people-smuggling which must be one of the filthiest trades that occurs in the world today. They have no regard for the people whom they allege they are trying to help and they take large amounts of money from them.  
Exception was taken to the term “queue-jumpers” by one of the members opposite who wished to remind us that he had once been a Minister but that is in fact a proper term to use when people are pushed in front of genuinely needy refugees. The Government’s overall package of changes is firm but fair and it sends a strong message that New Zealand is not a soft touch. The changes are compliant with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and New Zealand’s international obligations.  
The reality is that mass arrivals of illegal immigrants are occurring. We heard the Rt Hon Winston Peters say that Canada is a target. New Zealand is closer. It will occur. We owe it to the country and we owe it to genuine migrants to be prepared. This bill will do that and that is why I am very proud to support it. Thank you.