Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I think it's probably appropriate that Dr Don Brash is here to support this kaupapa because of course this is yet another example of our far-right race-baiting Government's commitment to New Zealand. There's no doubt about that—under urgency cancelling the Productivity Commission so that David Seymour can fund his new ministry of regulation razor gang vanity project. This isn't public policy; it's social-good vandalism—I think we're all agreed on that. And it's hypocritical and extreme to be rushed through under urgency with minimal oversight. It's a shame all the ACT Party aren't here; I would have liked to have addressed them. Even their leader has applauded the work of the Productivity Commission. I mean yesterday just for example he said that the Productivity Commission has done some tremendous work—tremendous work—over the past decade or so and that the work will remain available as an asset or a taonga for New Zealanders to be a guide for policy formation. In the next breath he cuts their throat. He amputates them at the neck. With friends like David Seymour who needs enemies? He just loves this commission but we know what he's done with them. If we're being honest he'd admit that in killing off the Productivity Commission the reality is that he wants to—him and his ACT friends—take from the rich and give them tax cuts instead. I think that's what's driving this legislation; I think we all know that. That's left him scrambling to basically cut anything he can. He's robbing Peter to pay Paul and then using Paul to sack Peter. No doubt about it. It's political desperation at its worst; it's not a visionary nation as Mr Seymour talks about. It's a shame they're not all here; I would have loved to have seen them all here today. If the cost being saved by ACT's new vanity project was so easy to gain then why can't this new ministry of blaming red tape" fund itself from all the cost savings they were supposedly meant to find? It's a ministry of red tape to examine if there is too much red tape—that's the reality with this. The ACT Party would cut public education public health and public housing if they could fund a vanity programme like this because it gives them enormous power as we all know to damage the regulations that our capitalism is dependent upon.I was listening to my colleague Duncan Webb who's done a great job on this. Yesterday he attacked this bill as a needless virtue-signal that won't achieve the promise claimed. He's right it won't. But what I fear is that ACT will use this new red tape ministry as a razor gang that will seek to amputate as much as it can for their pure ideological glee.Hon Member: Whose money is it?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Well that's the question. And who's backing the ACT Party? I think that's the big question. Who is this all for? Why gut the Productivity Commission a respected voice in our political landscape for this new ministry of regulation razor gang vanity project? Who's interests—and I'm glad the question's been raised—are ACT actually serving here by silencing the Productivity Commission? Well if you've been reading we've all heard about it: the Atlas Network an international far-right thinktank whose extreme policy platform seeks to attack public servants push for radical privatisation dismantle regulation protecting workers and their environment and champions landlords over renters. That sounds remarkably familiar and similar to a certain party in this House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Can the member refer to the Productivity Commission bill at some point?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: All right. I thought I was. Thank you for that Madam Speaker; I thought I was. But I'm making an analogy Madam Speaker in terms of who is behind the ACT Party and this policy. I see a smile coming out because what we're hearing is that the exact policy platform that is being articulated by the Atlas Network is being articulated by not just the ACT Party but by the Taxpayers' Union and the New Zealand Initiative. The question is: who is pulling David Seymour's strings? That's got to be the question for New Zealanders. Axing the Productivity Commission for a vanity project razor gang that implements far-right free-market Atlas Network wish lists and Don Brash's wish lists—good man Don Brash might I add apart from his strange political affiliations—raises questions for New Zealanders in terms of where we are with support from overseas far-right thinktanks. I put that in front of you today and I want to praise our team for—Dan Bidois: Which far-right thinktanks Willie?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: We all know the far-right thinktanks. I say as I'm about to finish here that New Zealanders should be worried. There's a big week coming up next week in terms of Waitangi and it gets even worse from ACT as we look at what they've got in front of New Zealanders next week. We're all looking to see how David Seymour is going to be welcomed at Waitangi. Kia ora Madam Speaker."