Peters Winston: General Debate 
Peters Winston: General Debate 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 If Labour took biosecurity seriously then it would have kept its 1999 promise to decontaminate every second-hand car brought into New Zealand from offshore—not like what is happening now with half of them sitting in the Auckland port for up to 3 weeks without any treatment at all. 
Before I refer to what is coming up tonight after the break at about 8.30 which is the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill I want to refer to the behaviour of one of my colleagues in this House—namely Rodney Hide. I was meant to be at another meeting tonight and I asked for the courtesy due to the urgent debate today and also to the matter of the Privileges Committee that is coming up tonight of that bill being deferred to the next appropriate sitting day. Rodney Hide of course declined that leave. He is the leader of a political party who wrote in respect of one Jim Peron a paedophile that nothing “in the voluminous writings” of Mr Peron indicated positions that would make him unworthy of working and living in New Zealand. That is what he wrote to the New Zealand Immigration Service. He said that Mr Peron was a great friend of his. 
Mr Hide who is familiar with some of Mr Peron’s recent writings has refused to say whether he made an error of judgment by writing the letter. If we go to the first indented point of page 6 of the decision of the Chief Censor of Film and Literature—and I cannot read it out—we will see a series of comments taken from the publication of that man Jim Peron that clearly point to the kind of man he is; the kind of man who should not be in this country. I cannot read them to members because they are too gruesome. But on page 8 there is the finding: “The magazine therefore promotes and supports the exploitation of children and young persons for sexual purposes”. 
Rodney Hide is the brave leader of the ACT party soon to be the “Absent party” from Parliament. Yesterday when  
Scoop 
 contacted Mr Hide’s office for comments regarding the censor’s decision in respect of  
Unbound 
—that is Mr Peron’s publication—it was advised that Mr Hide would be making no comments on the matter whatsoever. 
Russell Fairbrother 
: Very brave! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Yes. He throws his weight around but here he has been outed alongside Jim Peron and still he has not made a public apology for being the chief facilitator in having that fart blossom in New Zealand. That is the truth. 
Rodney Hide 
: How scary! How upsetting! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I tell Mr Hide that it is upsetting because we in this country and in this Parliament should be concerned for the welfare and security of the New Zealand people—clearly something that is very absent from his mind. He supported bringing in a disgraceful individual from the United States whom no other country will have and who is into rank and file paedophilia to the extent of advocating it down to 8 years of age. Mr Hide should be ashamed of himself. It is a disgrace. 
But putting aside that mere aberration of politics I say that in a few hours’ time a great bill will come before Parliament. It has regard to a tragedy that happened in 1986 when a drafting of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi was entered into our law. The result has been division waste and a corruption of a culture a people and a unified country. 
In 1986 Geoffrey Palmer put the words “have regard to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi” in legislation and then it all started. For all the court cases and all the squabbles between Maori and Maori—and there have been countless millions of dollars spent in such squabbles—and between Maori and others we have a definition that nobody in Parliament from the Prime Minister to all her Cabinet Ministers back-benchers and so-called lawyers can describe to the satisfaction of any halfway-sane human being. Not one Labour member—or for that matter one Green Party member or Progressive member—can tell me what the principles are. Not one judge lawyer or academic can tell me what the principles are. Nevertheless they remain in legislation. About $400 million per year is spent in all sorts of departments and bureaucracies by all sorts of civil servants on having regard to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. 
Debate interrupted.