Mentions of Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand Parliament debates
Exclusive Brethren has been mentioned in 198 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Financial Review DebateAppropriation (2009/10 Financial Review) BillYear 2009/10 - In Committee
In Committee 22 Mar 2011
Hon David Parker A bit like those emails from the Exclusive Brethren.
CHRIS HIPKINS It is a lot like the emails from the Exclusive Brethren; he never opened those emails. He did not know anything about all that money the Exclusive Brethren were washing into ...
Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill, Parliamentary Service Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 15 Dec 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... bill will not stop the scene-setting behaviour outside the regulated period, but it will stop third parties like the Exclusive Brethren going to the Electoral Commission with a $1.2 million campaign. After finding out that using Don Brash’s photo and ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... regime for third-party expenditure. What caused that was, as Lianne Dalziel pointed out, the involvement of the Exclusive Brethren. We had had some third-party involvement in elections before, a little bit here, a little bit there—nothing too bad. I ...
METIRIA TUREI ... was that, as Lianne Dalziel explained, the 2005 election was a very unusual election in some respects because of the Exclusive Brethren attack. I acknowledge my late colleague, Rod Donald, and Jeanette Fitzsimons who exposed the Exclusive Brethren ...
Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill, Parliamentary Service Amendment Bill - Second Readings
Second Readings 7 Dec 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... of spending limits is about free speech, forgive me for my cynicism. Then we had the disgraceful actions of the Exclusive Brethren, which not only sought to discredit the Government of the day, and the Green Party, in targeted brochures that failed ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... on what a third party could do. That, of course, was dumb, and it was rendered dumb not in the first instance by the Exclusive Brethren in the 2005 election but in earlier times. I think Michael Laws might have been the first one I came across. I think ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... about yet, and one of them is the idea of third-party limits on spending. The commission got there long before the Exclusive Brethren did—20 years before. The commission said: “Hang on a minute, folks. It’s dumb to constrain this candidate but not to ...
METIRIA TUREI ... issue for us, and one on which our support for this bill depended. People have talked today already about the Exclusive Brethren and the issues that arose in 2005, and there is no doubt that those issues were a clear example of the fact that we ...
CHRIS HIPKINS ... to be just a little bit hollow. I rewind the clock back to where this all started, back to 2004-05, when we saw the Exclusive Brethren spend a huge amount of money to run a third-party parallel campaign that was unregulated, uncontrolled, and unmonitored,...
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... for one’s own party, or against another. So we have the third-party situation sorted, and we hope we never see the Exclusive Brethren situation ever again in New Zealand. We have a sensible regime around the referendum, and now we have the ...
Electoral (Administration) Amendment Bill (No 2)
First Reading 23 Nov 2010
STUART NASH ...$300,000 sounds like a lot of money, but when we hark back to the 2005 election we know there was a group—I think, the Exclusive Brethren—who spent a million dollars. They were not aligned to any political party—in fact, they are not even allowed to vote, ...
Electoral (Administration) Amendment Bill
In Committee 18 May 2010
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... attacks were all in blue—but I will not blame the current people for that—and all subsequently sheeted home to the Exclusive Brethren, of course. I must say that when I looked at my result, I should not really complain, because my majority went up. If ...
Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill
In Committee 14 Dec 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... included another deliberate avoidance of our electoral finance laws and that was about National’s engagement with the Exclusive Brethren. We know that, because of The Hollow Men—and I recommend that people read that book again. I have ...
Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... involved in an election campaign—that is, $300,000 for a third-party organisation. I do not care whether it is the Exclusive Brethren, the Catholics, the St John Ambulance, Family First, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, or the New Zealand ...
First Reading 4 May 2010
METIRIA TUREI ... fix them, yet it fails. Amongst the problems was an initially secret $1 million intervention in the campaign by the Exclusive Brethren church. It campaigned for the National Party and against the Greens and Labour, without the spending falling within ...
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... In the House, they cannot say that. There were things that took place involving a third party. The activities of the Exclusive Brethren church have been mentioned before. They probably went beyond the pale of what most people who participate in politics ...
Electoral Referendum Bill
Third Reading 15 Dec 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... And this is where there is a link between this bill and the previous bill. Business interests and groups like the Exclusive Brethren had poured millions of dollars into that campaign, first through the device of billboards that dominated the landscape ...
First Reading 22 Apr 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... that New Zealand is the same environment that it was in the last decade. We did not know about the work of the Exclusive Brethren until the 2005 general election campaign. What we saw then was the effect of unparalleled spending in order to sway ...
METIRIA TUREI ... that Nicky Hager exposed in his book The Hollow Men: A study in the politics of deception when the Exclusive Brethren and the horse racing lobby provided apparently independent pro-National advertising. We remain extremely concerned ...
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... Commission. All that was needed then was a promoter statement. As Lianne Dalziel pointed out, that was before the Exclusive Brethren showed what unlimited spending could deliver. It is important that all members of the House do not underestimate the ...
CHARLES CHAUVEL Mr Henare’s interjections just remind us that what the Exclusive Brethren did was done in cooperation with his political party; that is not easily forgotten on this side of the House. The ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... colleagues have already referred to, which saw the “hollow men”, as we have come to know them, and particularly the Exclusive Brethren, spend upwards of a million dollars trying to buy the result of an election campaign. Since then, there has been the ...
General Debate 22 Jul 2009
Hon PHIL GOFF ... owned the schools. Less candidly, Dr Brash was prepared to accept secret funding from the extreme fringe group, the Exclusive Brethren, and lie to the public about that. Where does Bill English stand on privatisation? Publicly, he was against it ...
Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill
Third Reading 15 Sep 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... were stupid enough to out themselves on TV. There is no doubt that those private investigators were being paid by the Exclusive Brethren. They were following and investigating me, Michael Cullen, and David Benson-Pope, as well as, probably, Peter Davis ...
First Reading 29 Apr 2009
CHRIS HIPKINS ... to the House, although it occurred before my time here. It is the case of the private investigators engaged by the Exclusive Brethren, in concert with the National Party, to investigate senior Labour Party figures in order to gather dirt to smear the ...
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... think no further back than only about 3 years ago. About 3 years ago I was a Minister in the previous Government. The Exclusive Brethren, who we know had some pretty shonky dealings at the election of 2005, did not just fund about $1 million of expenditure,...
Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill
In Committee 6 May 2009
CHRIS HIPKINS ... wage if this bill is passed. Of course, the provisions will not extend to volunteer newspaper deliverers like the Exclusive Brethren volunteers who delivered National Party pamphlets, so Government members can rest assured that they will not have to ...
In Committee 4 Mar 2009
CHRIS HIPKINS ... the legions of volunteers who are out there tramping the footpaths to deliver National Party leaflets. They are the Exclusive Brethren.
Electoral Amendment Bill 2009
Second Reading 17 Feb 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... but there should be no similar constraint on people who are not in political parties. Taking the example of the Exclusive Brethren, as I have previously said, I will defend the right of the Exclusive Brethren to attack the Labour Party and our ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... rorting of the third-party provisions, and the most obvious example, of course, was the exercise undertaken by the Exclusive Brethren. We saw the inadequacies and rorts that happened under the declaration of the donations regime, and the mockery of the ...
First Reading 17 Feb 2009
Hon PETE HODGSON ... not bang on about it with any anger today, but will simply restate the facts about it—is that one agency, being the Exclusive Brethren, decided to put $2.1 million into the campaign. Was that the correct figure? I think it was $2.1 million; if I have ...
First Reading 12 Feb 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... of causes they believe in, or against Governments they do not believe in? I, for one, believe in the right of the Exclusive Brethren to criticise the Labour Party, so long as they do so transparently, so long as they are accountable for the money they ...
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... a lot of money, but that money is not incorporated within the cap of that party. Of course, that is exactly what the Exclusive Brethren did. The thing about the Exclusive Brethren is not that they are an unusual religious sect. That is completely ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2008
Third Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Most employers are good employers. Most employers are very reasonable. But the scumbag employers—people like the Exclusive Brethren, whom Kate Wilkinson is so proud to represent—will be the people who will take advantage of this legislation and sack ...
In Committee 12 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... migrants? What about people who are a little bit different? What about people of different religions? How will the Exclusive Brethren feel about hiring a Hindu? They are not known for their religious tolerance, are they? They do not even take on the ...
Second Reading 11 Dec 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD In light of the Minister’s denial of her relationship with the Exclusive Brethren, I seek to table an article from the Christchurch Press of 29 November 2006—
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... never in my life acted for Trevor Mallard or Clayton Cosgrove. I can say categorically that I have not acted for the Exclusive Brethren church.
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... bill, and it has been processed in an outrageous way by a Minister who clearly spent too much time with her Exclusive Brethren clients, and who has been overly influenced by them in her approach to this area. The Labour Party will oppose this ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... the human relations aspect of employment. I think it is sad that the member who has been overly influenced by her Exclusive Brethren clients has got to the point where they are dictating the legislation that is coming to the House. My only question is ...
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... process. Earlier in the debate I heard the exchange between the Minister of Labour and Mr Mallard about the Exclusive Brethren and illegal representation. As a Christchurch member of Parliament, all I can say is that I hope one of the ...
First Reading 11 Dec 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD That is the first speech from the new Minister of Labour, a former lawyer for the Exclusive Brethren and now the list member for the Exclusive Brethren. And it is a shameful piece of legislation she is bringing in.
Hon RUTH DYSON ... Amendment Bill. Kate Wilkinson is a list member of Parliament from Christchurch. She used to be a lawyer for the Exclusive Brethren, and that fact, combined with the fact that she is now the Minister of Labour and is promoting the very lack of ...
Privilege - Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee, Members’ Pecuniary Interests—Gifts and Donations
Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee, Members’ Pecuniary Interests—Gifts and Donations 23 Sep 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... was to New Zealand First, then he said it was to Mr Peters. He said he made the donation to Labour because of the Exclusive Brethren—an impossibility, as the donation was made before the relationship between National and the Exclusive Brethren was ...
State Services
Crown-connected Organisations—Board Appointments 11 Sep 2008
Hon Dr Michael Cullen ... in Cabinet and subsequently withdrew that claim; who claimed that he gave money to the Labour Party to head off the Exclusive Brethren, when he gave the money before anybody other than the National Party knew about the Exclusive Brethren’s involvement; ...
General Debate 10 Sep 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... in the first instance? Why did he not tell the truth? What did he have to hide? Then there was the John Key of the Exclusive Brethren fame—the John Key who got the email that stated: “urgent, important, and strictly confidential.” That is how the email ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ...$1 million. Every campaign organiser for the National Party around the country knew that. Mr Key, who had met with the Exclusive Brethren and who got the email promising a million dollars, went out and told the country he knew nothing about it. Mr Key ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... in my diary, so I just went. I saw him. I am not quite sure who set it up.” John Key also said exactly that about the Exclusive Brethren. He said the Exclusive Brethren had an appointment in his diary, he did not know who set it up, and he does not even ...
Appropriation (2008/09 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 6 Aug 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... of the nature of the questions being asked. Those theories were the dirty tricks of a party that, in 2005, had the Exclusive Brethren running a front campaign of a couple of million dollars on its behalf, and that had the Exclusive Brethren and other ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... flops, his lack of principles, his memory loss, his confused statements, his insecurity, his secret dealings with the Exclusive Brethren, and his own comment about the stealing of emails from Don Brash’s office, which he tried to blame on the Labour Party?...
Foreign Affairs
Pacific Region—Governments 6 Aug 2008
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS Most certainly. When it is alleged in an electoral court that push-polling took place by a whole lot of Exclusive Brethren and it is denied by legal counsel, but it is later admitted to by the very candidate who was a beneficiary of that, ...
Pacific Region—Electoral Systems 5 Aug 2008
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... an electoral petition hearing a claim of organised push-polling was conducted on behalf of a candidate, involving the Exclusive Brethren church and scores of workers, which, because of the nature of push-polling, was an election expense. The allegation of ...
Rodney Hide In light of the Minister’s expert knowledge of electoral discussions in the Pacific involving the Exclusive Brethren—
Rodney Hide ... Minister of Foreign Affairs is such an expert on electoral systems in the Pacific that he knows all about what the Exclusive Brethren were doing with Mr Clarkson, and all about the funding of New Zealand First and other political parties, but cannot ...
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... recognised the voice. It is the one who told his campaign team and his legal advisers that he had no knowledge of the Exclusive Brethren. However, of course, he told the National Party, in a flippant moment of honesty over the weekend, that he did. So ...
Budget Debate 27 May 2008
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... it will call doing that something else, but that will be the effect of what it will do. It wants to deliver to the Exclusive Brethren—who are usually in the galleries keeping an eye on their investment—by increasing the funding for exclusive private ...
Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts, Annual Rates, and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 22 May 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Matters) Bill. What did he do during that entire period? He looked up to the gallery. He looked to the members of the Exclusive Brethren up there, asking for his instructions. “Do I vote for it or against it?”, he was asking. The Brethren were there. They ...
General Debate 21 May 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... in New Zealand. It is an agenda that would see a return to the master-servant relationship that was promised to the Exclusive Brethren in 2005. Already we have National members of Parliament going around speaking to business groups and telling them that ...
Mauao Historic Reserve Vesting Bill
Second Reading 17 Apr 2008
Sue Moroney The Exclusive Brethren wrote this speech.
General Debate 9 Apr 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Why does he not tell that to the millionaire brokers of the Waitemata Trust or the millionaire sponsors of the Exclusive Brethren? We believe in one person, one vote; not one dollar, one vote. We do not believe that elections should be bankrolled ...
Arts, Culture and Heritage
Culture and Heritage, Ministry—Confidence 3 Apr 2008
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... including the monitoring of the charter. There is deep confusion—a bit like Dr Brash not knowing about the Exclusive Brethren spending on his advertising.
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 12 Mar 2008
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... National has said it will take an “enough is enough” approach. It sounds a bit like the Destiny Church—it was the Exclusive Brethren last time, now it is the Destiny Church. National says that enough is enough, and John will take the axe to them. Oh, ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 19 Feb 2008
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... the $500,000 during the 2005 election campaign. He said that what really riled him was the “sneaky” way in which the Exclusive Brethren had reportedly tried to hide the fact it was behind the campaign. Actually, Mr Glenn is again being economic with the ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
LYNNE PILLAY ... law was reformed, where there was more accountability, and where the problems that were encountered with the Exclusive Brethren and third parties were discussed and addressed. No, they ran scared. They did not want to be part of that visit by the ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 12 Feb 2008
RODNEY HIDE ... have had Helen Clark say she does not care about the result. Well, I think it is time New Zealanders, including the Exclusive Brethren, had the right to speak up and have their say. We do not have to agree with people in New Zealand; we just have to ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... vacuous—that comes from the “Hollow Man”. That was from the “Shallow Man” who received an email stating that the Exclusive Brethren would secretly give him $1 million. He said he could not remember receiving it. I do not know how often John Key is ...
Electoral Finance Bill, Broadcasting Amendment Bill (No 3), Electoral Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 18 Dec 2007
HONE HARAWIRA ... it said a lot about who we are as a Māori Party. I paraphrase part of that email here: “We are not members of the Exclusive Brethren. We are not members of the ACT party. We are not members of the National Party. We are not members of John Boscawen’s ...
HONE HARAWIRA ... of opposing corruption, opposing illegality, and opposing the abuse of power in all its forms. And, yes, the Exclusive Brethren’s million-dollar anti-Labour - anti-Greens campaign was beyond the pale, but I cannot help but smell the filthy stench ...
HONE HARAWIRA It was not the Exclusive Brethren on whom the police had prima facie evidence of electoral finance mismanagement, was it? Heck, no—it was the Labour ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... and I’m proud to be doing it.”, and he went and spent all of his big money. We said “That’s OK.” But along came the Exclusive Brethren and said “We are not the Exclusive Brethren. We are not doing this. We have not spoken to the National Party. We have ...
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... members, including, notably—I say for Mr Woolerton’s benefit—the Minister of Justice, could only go on about the Exclusive Brethren. I predict there will be a great deal of litigation next year. This legislation contains so many uncertainties that ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... difficult to repeat. As documented by Nicky Hager, the National Party accepted the support of and colluded with the Exclusive Brethren. It behaved in a similar fashion with the Maxim Institute, with the so-called Fair Tax lobby, and with extremely ...
Electoral Finance Bill, Broadcasting Amendment Bill (No 3), Electoral Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 18 Dec 2007
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... second. I want to ask everyone who is opposed to this bill a question: why should anyone be allowed to do what the Exclusive Brethren did in my electorate in the last election? They came into my electorate on the Friday before the election, the day ...
General Debate 5 Dec 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF ... have the guts to say publicly that they were supporting National. Mr Key knew there was $1 million coming from the Exclusive Brethren. He appeared on television talking to them. He was told about it—he was emailed. Here is the email Ron Hickmott sent ...
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... been allowed to enter the conservative side of politics, which is most easily illustrated by the activities of the Exclusive Brethren Church. We are debating that in Parliament at the moment with the passage of the Electoral Finance Bill. It is a bill ...
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... has gone any way to try to defend what the National Party did in 2005 when its campaign was basically run by the Exclusive Brethren Church. It is why the National Party has not offered one word of defence for the way Bill English ran the campaign in ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... August 2002. I like Coldplay; they are fantastic group. But here is one song National members could have used for the Exclusive Brethren: “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face”. That is a song they could have had playing in the background with the Exclusive ...
DAVE HEREORA ... Finance Bill. We all know that the reason we are promoting that bill is due to National’s experiences with the Exclusive Brethren.
Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 21 Nov 2007
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... a labour market that has been consistently deregulated since the late 1980s. That member over there who acts for the Exclusive Brethren does not know anything about industrial relations; that is why the National Party gave her the job. In the National ...
General Debate 14 Nov 2007
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Hager’s book . Yeah, right! It has upheld the pillars of democracy against the sneaky, pernicious campaign of the Exclusive Brethren. Yeah, right! It fought vigorously against the rather well-heeled and subtle pseudo-thinktank, the Maxim Institute. ...
Appropriation (Continuation of Interim Meaning of Funding for Parliamentary Purposes) Bill
In Committee 14 Nov 2007
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... before the time they thought the actual campaign period was—at it and they still lost. They colluded with the Exclusive Brethren to try to rort the system. It has been fascinating to hear the number of National people who have said over the last ...
Second Reading 13 Nov 2007
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... team then. If we listened to him speak just now, we would not think he had ever heard of an organisation called the Exclusive Brethren Church, which cosied up to the National Party during the last election campaign and was involved in a complicated ...
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... give him a rational debate this afternoon. I am going quietly to analyse the facts. This is not a debate about the Exclusive Brethren. It is not a debate about National’s award-winning billboards, which we paid for by ourselves. It is all about Labour’s...
First Reading 8 Nov 2007
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... money on a campaign against Don Brash to try to keep his job as leader. [Interruption] He says “absolutely”. When the Exclusive Brethren church turned up and said it would secretly funnel National some money to try to help its campaign in 2005, all of ...
General Debate 17 Oct 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... their say, but—and I mean but—avoid the rorts of the friends of the National Party, the big money friends like the Exclusive Brethren. This party and, indeed, most of the parties in this Parliament, do not want to see a political system where those ...
Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 10 Oct 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... Labour-led Government hold very dear. I know that the National Party gained tremendously from the contribution of the Exclusive Brethren. I think it is quite significant that that party’s former leader, a self-confessed agnostic, had some quite long, ...
LYNNE PILLAY He is an atheist, not an agnostic, but he still thought it was very, very important to meet with the Exclusive Brethren.
RODNEY HIDE ... be entitled to do so. I agree with him. I ask him to reflect on the outrage that people in New Zealand poured on the Exclusive Brethren. I do not want to argue whether what they said was right or wrong, or whether they should have done what they did, but ...
General Debate 5 Sep 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... a copy of a page from that book, The Hollow Men, which reproduces a letter to Messrs Don Brash and John Key from the Exclusive Brethren.
General Debate 22 Aug 2007
JOHN KEY ... is that we rely on that basis to pass good legislation. What is the intent of this legislation? It is to get the Exclusive Brethren, and anybody else who wants to speak out against Labour, and they did not consult us. Quite interestingly, they did ...
Appropriation (2007/08 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 14 Aug 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... life who can remember not opening an email? And what is the email he remembers not opening? It was the one from the Exclusive Brethren.
Darren Hughes Oh yeah, the Exclusive Brethren will agree with that bill!
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 11 Dec 2007
DAVID BENSON-POPE ... in the wider context. Most people in this country know that we are here because of what the National Party—not the Exclusive Brethren, not the racing industry, but the National Party—got up to in 2005. I think it is important in the wider Australasian ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... may have had a different result. They were not prepared to own up. In fact, Mr Brash could not remember meeting the Exclusive Brethren. John Key still does not remember receiving the email about the money that was being spent. Is it not amazing that he ...
RODNEY HIDE ... whom we oppose, because that is the test of freedom of speech. That is why I have always stood up and said that the Exclusive Brethren should be free to express their political views. The issue is not whether I agree with them; the issue is whether they ...
CHESTER BORROWS ... the work. They want to believe—and they truly believe in their illusion—that their seats were stolen from them by the Exclusive Brethren. Well, if we look at the pamphlet put out by the Exclusive Brethren, we see that the one naive mistake they made that ...
CHESTER BORROWS ... showed up. Throughout the 7-month campaign run in Whanganui, I twice saw one of the most vociferous critics of the Exclusive Brethren. She did not have it in her!
In Committee 6 Dec 2007
JILL PETTIS ... I am grateful for the opportunity to have some clarification. John Key wants to get his hands on the money from the Exclusive Brethren and from those secret donors, such as the Waitemata Trust. John Key knows that the National Party has no hope of ...
PETER BROWN ... not do the job. The rules that are currently in vogue, which applied in 2005, did not do the job. They allowed the Exclusive Brethren to spend $1.2 million on pushing the National Party’s cause, and that is not only unethical, but also downright ...
In Committee 5 Dec 2007
RON MARK ... who are sitting here right now whether they received a donation for their campaign funds from the local branch of the Exclusive Brethren. Chris Tremain? No. Lindsay Tisch? He will not answer me. Kate Wilkinson?
In Committee 5 Dec 2007
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... up with her—is that I heard her, and other people, say that the thing that has driven them is the activity of the Exclusive Brethren. Do members know what disgusts me about that? It is the fact that demonising a religious group is what Hitler did to ...
In Committee 4 Dec 2007
Hon RICK BARKER ... that became very clear with the publication of The Hollow Men. That book made it very clear what was going on: the Exclusive Brethren was funding the National Party’s campaign, and it was doing so covertly. The essence of this bill is to identify ...
Hon RICK BARKER ... that the National Party’s opposition to this legislation stems from the 2005 election, when it colluded with the Exclusive Brethren to have substantial amounts of third-party literature put out. The Hollow Men makes it very clear that the ...
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... ensures that we will know who is campaigning and participating at the next election—not some shadowy figures like the Exclusive Brethren, and not some group that does not want anyone to know about its registered office, its place of domicile, its name, or,...
JUDITH COLLINS ... the bill would stop people having their democratic say. And what did Chris Carter do? He emailed back: “Are you an Exclusive Brethren?”. Simeon Brown is not an Exclusive Brethren; the Exclusive Brethren apparently do not use email. What would have ...
JUDITH COLLINS ... said: “Well, that is what I always say.”, or words to that effect. He always asks whether someone is a member of the Exclusive Brethren. Now we have a Labour Minister of the Crown vilifying people because of their religion.
JUDITH COLLINS ... those people want there to be a change of Government. The previous member for Whanganui, Jill Pettis, says the Exclusive Brethren are not a religion; they are a cult. Let us just ask ourselves whether, if we used the words “Jew” or “Muslim”, there ...
METIRIA TUREI ... ruthlessly and purposefully exploited those loopholes. One example, of course, was its active assistance with the Exclusive Brethren’s campaign. It is neither here nor there that it was the Exclusive Brethren, as opposed to somebody else, but the ...
GORDON COPELAND ... the businessmen who spent, from their own pockets, money in the last election and who happened to be members of the Exclusive Brethren. As Doug Woolerton has just informed the Committee, their involvement did not work. It did not actually have much ...
PETER BROWN ... by Audrey Young, and she is talking about the email sent to the former Chief Electoral Officer, David Henry, by the Exclusive Brethren. In case members over on the Opposition benches have not read this article, or heard of it, let me read the email: “We...
In Committee 4 Dec 2007
Hon MARIAN HOBBS ... Protection Society, or my friends the Society of Friends, the Quakers, I would be just as angry as if it were the Exclusive Brethren. I do not care who is buying the election. What I care about is that one group puts itself above the law, puts itself ...
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... actually happened in the select committee and except what the bill is actually about. The bill will not stop the Exclusive Brethren Church from spending money on an election campaign for the National Party, or on anything else, and it was never ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... had told them to appear. Mr Benson-Pope did not like the evidence of one witness and told him to go and join the Exclusive Brethren. And so it went on. The whole process was an embarrassment to Parliament. Let us look at some of the procedural ...
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... the National Party and the Labour Party the biggest single spender in the 2005 election was—guess who? It was the Exclusive Brethren.
CHARLES CHAUVEL No, not the unions; the Exclusive Brethren. Their spending doubled the effective amount of money available to the National Party, which was doubled again through ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... problems emerged with an uneven playing field, and we must deal with them. One of those problems was exposed by the Exclusive Brethren in the National Party’s campaign. The Exclusive Brethren ran a million-dollar advertising campaign that was ...
Hon PETER DUNNE ... long ago in 1986—New Zealand campaigns have been free of that influence until the last election. It was when the Exclusive Brethren’s campaign became public that a great deal of angst occurred amongst ordinary citizens, who said: “This is not right. ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... would have to ask why. Why are they scaremongering so strongly? They are worried about the funding they had from the Exclusive Brethren at the last election, and about how much at risk that was. This bill will not destroy free speech. It will not stop ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... or supporting a party during the election time has always been supposed to be declared. It is rorts such as the Exclusive Brethren’s collaboration with the National Party that has meant we have had to take another look at the bill and work towards ...
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... the public of New Zealand says, listen to what unions say, and listen to what the employers associations say. The Exclusive Brethren may even front up and have a view on the legislation. I know they do not vote, but they may have a view on third-party ...
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... see that that will happen. I have not spoken a lot about third-party advertising and what has become known as the Exclusive Brethren contributions to political campaigns. Clearly, that is something that must be attended to. It is relatively new. ...
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... brought those concerns to the fore in New Zealand and highlighted a number of very undemocratic practices. The Exclusive Brethren conducted an initially secret campaign to discredit Labour and the Greens on behalf of the National Party—and we know ...
State-Owned Enterprises (AgriQuality Limited and Asure New Zealand Limited) Bill
Third Reading 21 Jun 2007
R DOUG WOOLERTON No, it is not the Exclusive Brethren in this case, actually. The Exclusive Brethren come along at election time to help out; they are not interested in ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2007
Hon RICK BARKER Listen to the raucous noise from the National Party. The speech from the Exclusive Brethren’s lawyer was one of the most empty speeches I have heard. But that is what one expects from the National Party—all ...
Taxation (KiwiSaver and Company Tax Rate Amendments) Bill
Third Reading 17 May 2007
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... to the people of this country. In the last election National ran a campaign on tax cuts, aided and abetted by the Exclusive Brethren—maybe they put their hands up National’s back—yet National has had no history of tax cuts since 1966. I am not trying ...
General Debate 16 May 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING ... has had to own up. That man was a former police officer in Dunedin. He is the same man who was employed by the Exclusive Brethren to dig up dirt on the Prime Minister and on Labour MPs and their families. He is a proven liar. Wayne Idour lied to ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... I will finish where Annette King started. I ask Murray McCully, who helped to organise the person for the Exclusive Brethren—
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... was splicing pornographic videos into police training videos. Did Murray McCully know that was the case when, with Exclusive Brethren money, he organised someone to spy on members on the Government side of the House? Did he know that? There is no denial—...
General Debate 4 Apr 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... people should buy their own house.”, says John Key, as the spiritual leader of the National Party informed by the Exclusive Brethren to lead that way. What would they say? They would say that the market has to be allowed to rule, and now John Key says ...
Student Loan Scheme Amendment Bill (No 2) 2006
Second Reading 20 Mar 2007
DARREN HUGHES I am sure. The Exclusive Brethren do not believe in tertiary education. Their kids are not allowed to go to university, which is maybe why the National ...
General Debate 14 Mar 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ...—no tax cuts. Then, of course, we have had all these other ones. Mr Key said that National will not have a bar of the Exclusive Brethren—not even a muesli bar. Then Mr English goes and meets them in his electorate office in Invercargill!
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN So Mr English meets the Exclusive Brethren, and now we are beginning to realise why the honeymoon lasted as long as it did. Mr Key and Mr English could not agree ...
Hon BILL ENGLISH It is in regard to Dr Cullen’s allegations concerning the Exclusive Brethren.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... not a personal explanation, at all, because it was not about the member’s actions. Mr English confirmed that he saw Exclusive Brethren and did not tell us what they talked about at that meeting. [ Interruption]
Hon PHIL GOFF ... sits alongside him. But John Key has some other things to answer for. I heard Bill English deny that he had met the Exclusive Brethren about any political matter, and I accept the word of the honourable member. I accepted the word of John Key when he ...
Financial Review Debate - In Committee
In Committee 13 Mar 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... English said: “Oh, that shouldn’t have been done.” That is the wonderful thing about being close to people like the Exclusive Brethren. One is surely going to be saved, whatever one does or whatever one says.
Statutes Amendment Bill
Second Reading 4 Sep 2007
... statutes being amended here tonight. But when this bill came into the House on 1 March, the debate took on the Exclusive Brethren Church, giggling schoolgirls, and openly gay members of Parliament. As a new member still learning the ropes, I ...
First Reading 1 Mar 2007
RON MARK ... know from Nicky Hager’s book The Hollow Men that that is precisely what one of these groups of people, namely, the Exclusive Brethren, has been doing. Ironically, we suspected all along—and we now know with absolute surety—that the National Party was ...
RON MARK ... The honourable Chris Finlayson has just raised a point of order to try to shut me down. It is interesting that the Exclusive Brethren, who funded the National Party campaign, are totally against civil unions. Members of the Exclusive Brethren came into ...
RON MARK ... tell Anne Tolley, the retread MP who is back again after a short duration—after what is called a sabbatical—that the Exclusive Brethren came to the offices of MPs around Christchurch and lobbied vigorously for people to vote against the Civil Union Bill. ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 28 Feb 2007
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ...ash’s saying all through the election campaign that the economy would go to hell in a handbasket and his praying to the Exclusive Brethren, or along with them, that it would, that the economy slowed—there is one member praying over there—then it bottomed out,...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2007
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... suddenly exposed the rotten things that were going on in the National Party. If it had not been for the issue of the Exclusive Brethren, then National may well have got over the line, and many of those things that were being suggested would have come to ...
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... but I can anticipate that tomorrow’s newspapers will report suicides in unprecedented numbers, mainly among the Exclusive Brethren community, after that speech. If I were a member of the Exclusive Brethren, I would hate to think I paid all that ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER We know that during the election Dr Brash denied links with the Exclusive Brethren. That was found out to be an untrue statement, even during the election. He recanted to a certain extent but still ...
Adjournment - Sittings of the House
Sittings of the House 12 Dec 2006
Hon PAUL SWAIN ...itects! Well, here is a handy little hint: exclusive GST means GST not included. A little memory hint is exclusive GST, Exclusive Brethren. It is very, very simple when one actually thinks about it and gets the hang of it. So finally Don Brash called it a ...
Labour
Employment—Workplace Access for Union Representatives 19 Aug 2010
Keith Locke ... by employers with a strong anti-union bias to deny union access to the workplace, such as happened in 2004 when the Exclusive Brethren denied the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union access to represent migrant workers under a loophole then in ...
Minimum Wage Increase—Real Income Gain 11 Feb 2009
Hon Trevor Mallard ... a result of submissions from either the ministerial summit group, to which she was not invited, or her former Exclusive Brethren clients, who run sweatshops?
Hon Dr Michael Cullen ... terms of abuse, or any of the other terms referred to in the Standing Orders. It referred to the fact that the Exclusive Brethren were formerly clients of the member when she was a practising lawyer. There is no—
Employment Relations Act—Review 12 Dec 2006
Hon RUTH DYSON I have seen a report that the Exclusive Brethren sought to change the law in an attempt to bar unions from all their workplaces, regardless of size. They described ...
Hon RUTH DYSON The Exclusive Brethren described the employment relationship as one of master and servant. This unsuccessful attempt was supported by the ...
Hon RUTH DYSON A second report shows that National’s new industrial relations spokesperson, Kate Wilkinson, used to work for the Exclusive Brethren as legal counsel in Christchurch. Considering her close associations with the Exclusive Brethren, I wonder what ...
Adjournment - Sittings of the House
Sittings of the House 12 Dec 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... to keep the current industrial relations Act.” On Iraq National is saying: “We should never have been there.”, on the Exclusive Brethren it is asking: “Who are they?”, and on tax it is saying: “We are back with Mr English, too. We will have small ...
General Debate 6 Dec 2006
MOANA MACKEY ... the Nicky Hager book The Hollow Men. I have to say that although a lot of the revelations about the links with the Exclusive Brethren were very surprising in terms of their extent, for my part it was the revelation of the disunity in the National Party ...
Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill
Third Reading 27 Feb 2007
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... included the names of certain individuals. That fact would help to identify them. Secondly, one email said that the Exclusive Brethren wanted to overthrow the Labour Government, and National was the only option it had in order to do so—pathetic though ...
Second Reading 5 Dec 2006
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... party votes for National as this is the only way that change will come about.” That was the kind of email from the Exclusive Brethren that went into the in-box of David Henry from the Chief Electoral Office. Would that email be a commercial spam or a ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN Possibly it was a purchase bid; possibly it was almost a tender bid. Yes, it was almost a tender from the Exclusive Brethren to the Chief Electoral Office. If it had been a commercial spam email, Mr Henry would have had the opportunity of ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... it could well be argued that this was a commercial email and therefore there would be an opt-in provision. If the Exclusive Brethren had sent the email under this legislation and either did not have an opt-in part of the email or did not have an ...
DARREN HUGHES ... an unsolicited one in terms of the promotional message provisions of the bill. The email goes on to explain how the Exclusive Brethren sect had been involved in a defence campaign. The Brethren actually had a misleading campaign saying that the Labour ...
DARREN HUGHES ... of Parliament not to put its attention to some of the unsolicited electronic messages going between National and the Exclusive Brethren, the racing industry, and the Maxim Institute. And, of course, there were the wonderfully rich emails—about which I ...
General Debate 22 Nov 2006
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... are the ones who helped to write a book. Because what we had here was covert activity with big business, with the Exclusive Brethren, and we had outright deception, day after day, in the media. They have been found out.
Hon PHIL GOFF ... Steven Joyce, from Don Brash himself, from John Key—interestingly, the man who claimed he had nothing to do with the Exclusive Brethren—and from the Exclusive Brethren themselves. Will Dr Brash now admit, before it is exposed, that he knew about the ...
... we can talk about in this House—because it has been produced in the inquiry into electoral spending—is where the Exclusive Brethren ask how they put together an election programme with a budget of $1.2 million with the goal of “getting party votes ...
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... if the email to the Electoral Commission had not been disclosed in the course of an investigation. It showed that the Exclusive Brethren were prepared to spend $1.2 million, which the National Party did not want us to know about, to get party votes for ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... says, and if he has the goods—he got the goods from the famous six National Party sources, to match the famous seven Exclusive Brethren that that mob lined up with, and he has the email evidence leaked by them—then that is evidence. That is the ...
DARREN HUGHES ... meeting in his electorate office with two of the strategists for the National Party, who are members of the Exclusive Brethren church. There is nothing wrong with that; one can meet with those kinds of people if one wants to. But when we find ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... in his campaign. There is a nice photo of John Key having a discussion in his electorate office with members of the Exclusive Brethren. The real problem for the National Party now is that this book will be bad for John Key. So there goes Don Brash and ...
General Debate 8 Nov 2006
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... and some of them feel they owe their parliamentary seats to Don Brash. Certainly, he has a cosy relationship with the Exclusive Brethren, who delivered pamphlets filled with lies about this Government and lies about the Green Party, which is a tactic they ...
General Debate 25 Oct 2006
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... instead of protecting those sick people of New Zealand, spends all his time churning out press releases about the Exclusive Brethren and other matters. That is what the man with the most complex and demanding portfolio in the country is doing. Steve ...
STEVE CHADWICK ... the issue he is worried about—if he is going to be the next leader—is what National’s relationship is with the Exclusive Brethren. He might get it right. He might also ask how men who profess to know about business do not understand their party’s ...
Privilege - Television New Zealand—Action Taken Against Chief Executive, Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee
Television New Zealand—Action Taken Against Chief Executive, Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee 19 Oct 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... Expenditure Validation) Bill I noted that Dr Michael Cullen was talking about Don Brash being in bed with the Exclusive Brethren. That was hardly what the bill was about, yet no condemnation was made of his comment.
Appropriation (Parliamentary Expenditure Validation) Bill
Third Reading 18 Oct 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... prosecute him. There is nothing to stop him coughing up the $118,000 right now. I am sure a quick whip-round the Exclusive Brethren, wherever they are today, would quickly pay off that $118,000. What they would not tell us in this debate either, ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Oh yes, I think Mr Key had better look at the Hansard again. He told the House he had not met the Exclusive Brethren, because I challenged him and he interjected and said he had never met them. I think he might want to change that ....
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... he had not met them, after the election, then he admitted he did. How often does Dr Brash change his story on the Exclusive Brethren? I tell Dr Brash that they are the ones where the women wear the head scarves. They are pretty easy to see. This ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... how much was put in there, and what do the donators want for it? Secondly, can we finally have some truth about the Exclusive Brethren? Can we finally have that story? One man alone in this nation can tell us the full story of the Exclusive Brethren, ...
Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR ... they knew that they had secret backers. The question is what they would have done for the $1.2 million spent by the Exclusive Brethren backers of the National Party to offset the money other parties spent by way of the Parliamentary Service ....
Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR ... the guilt on the faces of those members opposite with regard to the payment made by a party outside Parliament—the Exclusive Brethren. Lockwood Smith looks a little unsure about that. Those questions must be answered by the National Party as we move ...
In Committee 18 Oct 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... collapses. The real attempt to steal that election was the $1.2 million that came from the flaky fruitcakes in the Exclusive Brethren, who do not vote but want to choose a Government, and who will not fight but want to defend the country.
DARREN HUGHES ... Party this. If not breaching an electoral spending cap is so important, why does the National Party not include the Exclusive Brethren money spent in its support? [Interruption] One of the members said they did not need to. The Labour Party did not need ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... that we breached the spending cap. That party received over $1 million of expenditure from its friends in the Exclusive Brethren—the same people who had private detectives tailing me and other members of Parliament, and who took part in other ...
JOHN HAYES ... to move the argument from issues around whether it took the money and spent it improperly; it has tried to blame the Exclusive Brethren. Hitler did that with the Jews and it was a very totalitarian policy to follow. I have to say, sitting in this Chamber,...
Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR ... party. I have a couple of questions. It is not good enough for National Party members to say they did not sin; the Exclusive Brethren might tell them to say that, but National, like every party in the House other than the Progressives, spent money ...
In Committee 17 Oct 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... in that area. For example, did any of the members opposite at any point talk on their cellphones to members of the Exclusive Brethren about the funding the Exclusive Brethren was engaged in, or, for example, the polling they were carrying out in ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Oh, they did not have any meetings? Mr Key had no meetings with the Exclusive Brethren. He would like to put on the record right now, would he, that he had no meetings with the Exclusive Brethren? So who ...
Second Reading 17 Oct 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... Party. He is telling everybody that Don Brash is gone. What about the National Party’s involvement with the Exclusive Brethren?
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN So what? This is the man who accused the Exclusive Brethren of breaking up families for religious purposes.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN “That’s right.” he says. Well, what was Dr Don Brash doing in bed with the Exclusive Brethren, to the tune of $1.2 million payment to Don Brash for his services in trying to get rid of a Labour-led Government? ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... want in return for that money? Second, now that Don Brash has admitted he did not take the appointments with the Exclusive Brethren out of the diary, can he try to recover a little of his memory and tell us when the meetings were, what went on, what ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... Gerry. Tell us about those. Tell us why you hide the money.” The second thing I say is that, in respect of the Exclusive Brethren, we had the biggest attempted hoodwink in political history, to the tune of $1.2 million. I ask those members to come ...
General Debate 11 Oct 2006
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... leaders who say one thing and do another? They do not like leaders who say, for instance, that they never knew about Exclusive Brethren pamphlets. I know that Mr Brownlee, deep, deep down—
General Debate 13 Sep 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... in a different way. That would be wrong. Alongside those issues, some other things have been of concern. The Exclusive Brethren acted in a way that is not acceptable in a democracy. They spent a lot of money secretly supporting the National ....
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... came 10 percent from local party members and 90 percent from big business. That is appalling. When we say that the Exclusive Brethren funded the National Party’s exercise, I can say that I received a letter in my office from those seven Exclusive ...
Education
Education—Competition 14 Aug 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... investment is going, and I ask the member whether he would care to ask Mr Key whether, during his meeting with the Exclusive Brethren, he carried out the promise of saying he would switch money from the public sector to the private sector—as he said he ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... What we want to hear from Mr Key is whether he will cut funding to public schools, as he appears to have promised the Exclusive Brethren.
Independent Schools—Funding 11 Oct 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... a range of independent schools, such as schools run by trusts and by various churches, including, for example, the Exclusive Brethren sect.
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ...“lift the State’s contribution to independent schools to a 50 percent contribution”. This means, for example, that the Exclusive Brethren schools would receive double their current funding—an additional $4.5 million over 3 years. That is not a bad return ...
Hon Tau Henare ... example of this Government punishing anyone who opposes it, and can he explain to the 1,300 children attending the Exclusive Brethren schools why he is singling them out?
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... of the question, what people need to know from Dr Don Brash is where the diary entries are that tell us about the Exclusive Brethren church, and where the notes are that tell us about the $1.2 million.
Hon Brian Donnelly ... nature of the independent schools fund, the Government’s allowing the 12 Westbridge schools to open to cater for Exclusive Brethren children since 2000 has, in fact, been at the expense of all other independent school students, because their per ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... policy rationale but there does seem to be a political one. It is clear that Don Brash and John Key met with the Exclusive Brethren at the time this policy changed. Don Brash now tells us he has the diary entries. He should tell us when those ...
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... have been made by Mr Steve Maharey, and to make plain that at absolutely no time did I meet with any member of the Exclusive Brethren in the development of that policy.
Hon Trevor Mallard I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. As the Minister who did the negotiations with the Exclusive Brethren in order to bring them into the system, I had a number of discussions with them. I am not sure of the exact amount ...
Hon Brian Donnelly ... seen the report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research carried out in 2003—before Don Brash met with the Exclusive Brethren—
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... asked my colleague to desist from putting a point of history into reference when he said “before Don Brash saw the Exclusive Brethren”. That is a totally appropriate statement; it is very brief. Yet, Madam Speaker, you allow National members to carry ...
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... to allow the 50 percent entitlement for independent schools, was improperly motivated by something to do with the Exclusive Brethren. I wrote that policy. I never met with the Exclusive Brethren once in the development of that policy. I take offence at—...
Democracy—Participation 12 Sep 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... to ridicule people when they did not respond in the appropriate way. It turned out that the teenager attended a local Exclusive Brethren school, and the poll was a “homework assignment” for his class. That is hardly an example of teaching young people how ...
Defence
Defence—Spending 12 Sep 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF Yes, I have seen such a report. It is in the pamphlet I am holding, which was produced by the Exclusive Brethren to support the National Party, and it attributes that cut to the Labour Government. The defence spending cut from 1.8 ...
Hon PHIL GOFF These figures, again, contradict the lies put out in the Exclusive Brethren pamphlet. Defence expenditure was $1 billion in 1999; in 2006 it rose to $1.4 billion—an increase of 40 percent. With ...
Education (Trustee Ineligibility) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 6 Sep 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... was agreed—the police, the School Trustees Association, the National Party, and New Zealand First. Probably even the Exclusive Brethren would agree with the select committee, I would imagine. They would say: “Good try.” In the end, this bill is not ...
General Debate 6 Sep 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF ... this debate. Yesterday in the House we heard Don Brash say that the National Party did not get a dime from the Exclusive Brethren—not a dime. He was right about that—it was not a dime; it was $1.2 million, which increased National Party election ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... is dealing with it. It is the same with the funding issue. Labour has now tried to muddy the waters by using the Exclusive Brethren pamphlets. I need to tell members that I am not a Christian. I am not a member of any of the faiths that other members ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... was a big cheque. Let us talk about a National Party leader who did not know there was a $1.2 million cheque from the Exclusive Brethren floating around. I tell members that David Henry certainly knew about it. If we are to talk about scrutiny and media ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER ...ow: it’s not the National Party.” Further, on Wednesday, 7 September: “Dr Brash says he met with representatives of the Exclusive Brethren church about a month ago.” I have this report, as per the Television New Zealand website: “Presenter: Did they tell ...
SUE MORONEY ... correctly on the eve of the election—the “New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare”? It turned out that they were Exclusive Brethren. They were telling people in Cambridge to use their party votes, yet they tell their own members not to go and use ...
SUE MORONEY ... coming from.” But in relation to the “New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare”, guess what? The funders were the Exclusive Brethren, an organisation that does not like to give women their rights. I think the women of New Zealand should be deeply ...
JACQUI DEAN ... the member Sue Moroney, about putting money into campaigns. I think we must remember that this issue is not about the Exclusive Brethren, this issue is not about National, this issue is not about pamphlets—signed, or otherwise—this issue is about the ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2006
Second Reading 30 Aug 2006
DARREN HUGHES ... about. The only schools I can think of are schools that are a secret organisation or part of a secret sect. Maybe the Exclusive Brethren church might have rules like this for the cleaners at their schools. I am a Labour MP and I do not know, but I do know ...
Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Bill
Second Reading 30 Aug 2006
STEVE CHADWICK ... Christianity. I could see that the member was earning his money tonight when I looked across and saw members of the Exclusive Brethren in the gallery. I do not believe for a minute that the member believed what he said tonight, and I felt saddened as a ...
Justice
Private Security Industry—Regulation 7 Aug 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... cause concern. For example, I have seen reports from a private investigator, Mr Wayne Idour, who admitted that the Exclusive Brethren had paid him to spy on Labour MPs to help the National Party at the last election. Having used that as an example, I ...
Political Funding—Sources 24 Jul 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... and now there is no accountability as to where that money came from, what trust it came from, whether it was from the Exclusive Brethren, or whether it was from the fishing industry, the insurance industry, or the tobacco industry. The money went into the ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... vehicle it is—controlled and managed by Mr Browne, along with Mr McCully, to hide its donations from people like the Exclusive Brethren. I think any questions about the Spencer Trust would have to be directed to New Zealand First.
Election Advertising—Political Party Logos 24 Jun 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... it has to say where its money comes from, and it has to declare whether the money comes from its big backers like the Exclusive Brethren. That is what National does not like.
Election Advertising—Financial Agent Authorisation 11 Mar 2008
Hon PETE HODGSON ... Act 2007. Let us just recall, however, where the requirement for a residential address came from. Back in 2005 the Exclusive Brethren spent over $1 million on pamphlets that opposed the Labour Party and the Green Party. These are the pamphlets that ...
Electoral Finance Act—Election Advertising 6 Mar 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING I think the issue of putting proper addresses on authorisation came out of the Exclusive Brethren pamphlets, where addresses at which no one lived were put on. Fake addresses were put on, and the National Party ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... for a street address for those people who are authorising advertisements, and how it will affect, for example, the Exclusive Brethren Church, which takes its directions directly from the United States and does not have a domicile in New Zealand, which ...
Hon ANNETTE KING No, I have not received any advice on that, but it is a very interesting idea, and, obviously, I think the Exclusive Brethren—
Hon ANNETTE KING ... to do it. In response to the question, I say that no, I have not received any advice on that, but I would say to the Exclusive Brethren that if they are planning the sort of campaign they had last year, they too ought to get advice from the Electoral ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Interpretation of Clause 80(d) 6 Dec 2007
Hon Phil Goff Not the Exclusive Brethren.
Hon ANNETTE KING I think my colleague is right—not the Exclusive Brethren.
Electoral Finance Bill—Electoral Commission View 22 Nov 2007
Metiria Turei Is the Minister aware that the Exclusive Brethren are, right now, running a smear campaign against the Australian Greens, accusing them of immorality and starting race ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... with the member. In fact, I have also read the press release that has come out of Tasmania in Australia about the Exclusive Brethren’s activity in the election right now. They are accusing the Greens not only of those things but also of bestiality as ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Election Advertisements, Newspaper Editorials 21 Nov 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING ... unnamed people, who would not have been exposed if it had not been for the Green Party and others who identified the Exclusive Brethren as working to elect a National Government by using one million dollars that was to be unaccounted for. New Zealanders ...
Heather Roy ... give the Greens carte blanche to comment on anything in their newspaper, the Green Times, and how will she stop the Exclusive Brethren from buying an existing newspaper and filling it with the same editorial content as their pamphlets contained?
Hon ANNETTE KING The Exclusive Brethren could certainly buy a newspaper. They may well even already own a newspaper in New Zealand. [ Interruption] Oh, so the ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Participation in Parliamentary Democracy 15 Nov 2007
Metiria Turei ... non-party groups run million-dollar advertising campaigns that are simply parallel party vote campaigns—just as the Exclusive Brethren did last election, with its blue pamphlets that stated “Change the Government”—then a cap on party election spending ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... National Party, $1 million for the Green Party, and $1 million for the Labour Party. But, guess what? Along came the Exclusive Brethren, which spent more than $1.2 million in addition to the National Party’s cap. This legislation states that that ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Regulated Election Periods 25 Oct 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... Bill is about ensuring that we never again have a repeat of the appalling behaviour of the National Party and its Exclusive Brethren friends, where it sought to outspend and buy an election result.
Electoral Finance Bill—Multiparty Democracy 25 Oct 2007
Hon MARK BURTON No, I cannot confirm that. But I can confirm that the Exclusive Brethren spent $350,000 on a pamphlet campaign, plus a further million dollars on another pamphlet campaign with the sole ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Refinements by Select Committee 18 Oct 2007
R Doug Woolerton Is the Minister aware that individual members of the Exclusive Brethren Church were the third-biggest spenders at the last election—outspending all political parties except National and ...
Hon MARK BURTON That is my understanding. I think that when one considers the wide range of expenditure that the Exclusive Brethren undertook—not only the million-dollar campaign that we are all aware of and the $350,000 pamphlet campaign that ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Freedom of Expression 17 Oct 2007
Hon MARK BURTON Indeed, I can confirm that the National Party had such billboards, along with, of course, a $350,000 Exclusive Brethren - funded campaign, followed by a million-dollar Exclusive Brethren - funded campaign—none of which managed to find ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Encouragement of Full and Open Expression 19 Sep 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY I say to the member that that is exactly the kind of situation the Exclusive Brethren found themselves in. They were spending large amounts of money, with no attribution and no address, on trying to ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Parliamentary Democracy 18 Sep 2007
Hon Bill English ... and in which it also states: “We cannot easily see how the bill will distinguish between organisations such as the Exclusive Brethren and Caritas.”?
Hon STEVE MAHAREY The member knows that the problem with the Exclusive Brethren is that they delivered a vast amount of material without identifying who they were. If anyone tried to track them down,...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... of Justice has made it clear a number of times that the intention of this legislation is to capture people like the Exclusive Brethren, not the Catholic Church as in the example the member has pointed out—that is, the Catholic Church going about its ...
Hon Bill English ... on poverty, and that the bill does not distinguish between groups like the Catholic Church or Caritas and the Exclusive Brethren—or were they just making it all up?
Electoral Act—Electoral Period 12 Sep 2007
Hon MARK BURTON One example is the $350,000 Wake Up New Zealand campaign, run by the Exclusive Brethren before they ran their $1 million campaign in collusion with the National Party, and they made very clear, in running ...
Hon MARK BURTON ... It sets out to close the loopholes—or at least reduce them in size—that the National Party and its friends in the Exclusive Brethren Church, and others, exploited in 2005 in order to try to use large amounts of money to buy an election result.
Electoral Finance Bill—Regulated Period 11 Sep 2007
Hon Bill English ... to in the 2005 election, such as that of the pledge card, occurred within the 3-month election period, as did the Exclusive Brethren campaign; and, given that information, what evidence does he have of any activity outside of the 3-month period that ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Community Groups 6 Sep 2007
Ron Mark ... reinstate an air strike capability, when that party then reneged on that deal; or is the situation simply that the Exclusive Brethren have blown their money and should never have trusted National in the first place?
Hon MARK BURTON In a sense it will, because it will prevent the likes of the Exclusive Brethren from undertaking that sort of covert campaign in the future. But, of course, the Brethren could take a read of their ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Regulated Period 5 Sep 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... of the campaign period, on behalf of the National Party, as this letter to Mr Key quite clearly makes clear. The Exclusive Brethren sought to “launch a $1 million very extensive election campaign with the sole goal of getting party votes for National”....
Electoral Finance Bill—Amendments 4 Sep 2007
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... the National Party spokesperson on justice on this issue; and does he expect, or has he received, a letter from the Exclusive Brethren church from those spokespersons writing to him on that group’s behalf?
Electoral Finance Bill—Election Advertising 21 Aug 2007
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... such wholesale abuse of the electoral laws in 2005, in particular by an alleged chauvinist, racist group called the Exclusive Brethren—
Hon MARK BURTON ... under the legislation in 2005, perpetrated on our electoral system by the National Party and its friends in the Exclusive Brethren, necessitated changes to our electoral law. I can say to the member—because he clearly has not got to page 54 yet—that ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Minister's Statement 16 Aug 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... influence or abuse. Why the member would want to persist in arguing about the opportunity to sort out issues like the Exclusive Brethren and GST remains a mystery.
Electoral Finance Bill—Definition of Electoral Expense 15 Aug 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... distract attention from the central purpose of this bill, which is the prevention of the rorting that we saw from the Exclusive Brethren, with the full knowledge of Mr Key and the National Party, at the last election. I am sorry to say that no amount of ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Freedom of Expression 14 Aug 2007
Rodney Hide ... cast the net too wide”, catching legitimate lobby groups; if so, does he consider Church groups in general and the Exclusive Brethren in particular to be legitimate lobby groups, and if they are not, why are they not?
Election Advertising—Government Policy 9 Aug 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... advertising on behalf of a political party, involving huge sums of money and not attributable, that was done by the Exclusive Brethren should not be allowed to happen in that kind of volume. The select committee will consider, of course, whether the ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... is designed to catch predatory species that prey upon the political and democratic system in this country, as the Exclusive Brethren did last time—
Election Advertising —Statements of Chief Electoral Officer 12 Oct 2006
Hon MARK BURTON ... Otherwise, I might equally have received copies of correspondence between the Chief Electoral Officer and the Exclusive Brethren on how it sought to avoid $1.2 million of an election advertising smear campaign on behalf of the National Party being ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... Bob Clarkson to issue here, is the Minister aware that at the court Mr Clarkson denied knowledge of working with the Exclusive Brethren, yet just 3 weeks ago admitted he did?
Election Advertising—Validation of Spending 7 Sep 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... having the allegations of corruption swirl around them, as they are doing as a result of their relationships with the Exclusive Brethren Church, which paid $1.2 million to support the National Party in order to try to steal the last election, and National’s...
Hon Pete Hodgson Has the Minister of Justice received any information on how the Exclusive Brethren may have come into possession of the personal electoral enrolment details of New Zealanders, given that possession of ...
Election Advertising—Labour Party Pledge Card 5 Sep 2006
Lynne Pillay Has the Minister seen evidence of correspondence from the Exclusive Brethren Church to David Henry, the then Chief Electoral Officer, in which the Exclusive Brethren ask: “if it would compromise ...
Gerry Brownlee ... it concern the Minister of Justice that a Labour back-bencher can claim to have emails that transferred between the Exclusive Brethren and the Electoral Office, which are available, apparently, for tabling in this House but that he himself claims he has ...
Election Advertising—Auditor-General’s Report 24 Aug 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... course, the members opposite are not paying back the money spent on their billboards, nor have they paid back to the Exclusive Brethren the money it wasted.
General Debate 23 Aug 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... But where are the principles? He said: “I would work with the devil to get rid of this Government.” Did he tell the Exclusive Brethren that? Did he tell them that he would work with the devil to get rid of this Government? Where is he on the nuclear ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN That is right—from the man who said that the Exclusive Brethren destroyed families in the name of Christianity. That is what Nick Smith said about them. Then the next day Dr Brash ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... Service. All of these things are paid for by Parliamentary Service. We might like to say something too about the Exclusive Brethren. The Exclusive Brethren are an ongoing embarrassment. [Interruption]
Hon STEVE MAHAREY The big embarrassment for the National Party is, of course, the Exclusive Brethren. Here is what the National Party has said. In an interview with Paul Holmes, for example, Dr Brash said he had no ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... We have the sight of the unctuous Don Brash—the man who a year ago could not remember whether he had met with the Exclusive Brethren, did not tell his deputy half the story, and did not tell his finance spokesperson half the story. Then, in the third ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... party’s liability. The member continues to be in denial—just as he denied for days that he knew anything about the Exclusive Brethren. The member appears to be in denial. But I can have my most fun with a piece of advertising that was paid for by the ...
MOANA MACKEY ... members as to why they did not tell the people of New Zealand about $1.2 million worth of funding from the radical Exclusive Brethren religious sect in the last campaign.
MOANA MACKEY ... truth. Maybe he could tell the people of New Zealand why he told the press that he had not met with members of the Exclusive Brethren, that he did not know about the pamphlet, and that he had no idea what was coming—only to have to backtrack days later,...
MOANA MACKEY ... Firstly, we included their spending in our electoral return; the National Party did not include the spending of the Exclusive Brethren in its electoral return. Secondly, the union movement did not put fake addresses where no one lived as the address of ...
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... Muslims, but that does not extend to Christianity, for which she has apparent contempt. The Labour mantra about the Exclusive Brethren is a pathetic diversion. The only weird cult around here is the Labour Party caucus. The third defence, exemplified ...
Women's Affairs
Apprenticeships and Trades—Women 12 Sep 2006
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... treated as second-class citizens, unable to participate in any areas of New Zealand life. One of these groups is the Exclusive Brethren, whose beliefs limit choices for women, which is why their alignment to a major political party represents such a ...
Gender Equity—Reports 2 Aug 2006
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... after they marry.” This is, of course, unless the husband cannot work. This book is about the practices of the Exclusive Brethren, funder of Don Brash and the National Party.
Protected Objects Amendment Bill
Third Reading 2 Aug 2006
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... men’s treatment of women, I think he said. The next question was whether this issue was a bit of a problem with the Exclusive Brethren, and whether the Exclusive Brethren shared those bedrock values. The problem that Dr Brash got into was that he did ...
General Debate 2 Aug 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ...Muslims.” “And,” asked the media nanoseconds after that, “are those equal status of women bedrock values shared by the Exclusive Brethren?”. Those are the same Exclusive Brethren that Dr Brash had no second thoughts about relieving of $1.2 million worth of ...
SUE MORONEY ... members so embarrassed about? I think the rest of them have worked out that their power base at the last election—the Exclusive Brethren—will not be very pleased to hear that it is not welcome in this country if it does not believe in democracy. The ...
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... not or would not name any of the groups he might have been referring to. Of course, he could have touched on the Exclusive Brethren—something my colleague Mr Hodgson talked about earlier—which is a group that does not share core New Zealand values. ...
DARREN HUGHES ... disgrace in that regard. The Opposition should focus on things all New Zealanders can feel they belong to, not wacko Exclusive Brethren things to which women are not allowed to belong. We believe that the Labour Party should be inclusive of all New ...
Internal Affairs
Citizenship—Criteria 1 Aug 2006
Hon RICK BARKER ...: “Fathers are the breadwinners; mothers stay at home.” I have seen another report that states: “I cannot speak for the Exclusive Brethren” but goes on to state: “If you don’t believe in these values”—those values being the rule of law, religious and ...
Questions to Ministers - Question No. 9 to Minister
Question No. 9 to Minister 1 Aug 2006
Hon RICK BARKER I seek leave to table a page “An Open Documentary on Their Faith and Their Life”, describing the views of the Exclusive Brethren on the place of women in society.
Appropriation (2006/07 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 1 Aug 2006
MOANA MACKEY ... the sexes and democracy are the foremost qualities and values for a New Zealander to have took $1.5 million from the Exclusive Brethren in the last election campaign. Dr Brash took $1.5 million from a right-wing religious sect that oppresses women and ...
Third Reading 1 Aug 2006
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... same, and where religious freedom is practised.” What about the million-dollar assistance National received from the Exclusive Brethren? Did Dr Brash forget about that when he was interviewed on National Radio on Friday? No, what that speech really ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... the last election in my electorate there was a huge banner—I do not know whether it was paid for by National or the Exclusive Brethren—that asked: “What are your petrol taxes for?” [ Interruption] I do not know whether the Exclusive Brethren paid for ...
General Debate 26 Jul 2006
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... to that old saying. It has been going on about deals done and services rendered that are not declared. I remember the Exclusive Brethren at the last election rendering services to the National Party, but did the National Party declare these services? No, ...
General Debate 19 Jul 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... is getting desperate. To appoint into his office the man who ran the Big Gay Out, in defiance of his masters from the Exclusive Brethren, is a really desperate approach.
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 18 Jul 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... I agree. But from a party that took $1.2 million in advertising expenses and, I think, a $500,000 donation from the Exclusive Brethren, suddenly they are all incredibly—
General Debate 28 Jun 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... their dream has not come true. They spent so much money last year. They even had to go and spend time with the Exclusive Brethren, whose only virtue was that they were rich too—and all for nothing. To make matters worse, they know that on 1 July ...
Hon RUTH DYSON ... known to the public, coming and going. After all, Mr Key is the member who organised and attended meetings with the Exclusive Brethren, and then forgot about them. He organised the meetings with the Exclusive Brethren, set them up with his leader, and ...
John Key I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I have never attended a meeting with the Exclusive Brethren with my leader.
LYNNE PILLAY ... of the behaviour of the National Party before the last election. Given that an agnostic had prayer meetings with the Exclusive Brethren, yet National claimed that no political activity was going on, one can say “Yeah, right!”. Let us remind that member, ...
General Debate 21 Jun 2006
JILL PETTIS ....” He said that on One News on 29 October. I suggest that he already is in cahoots with the Devil, and it is called the Exclusive Brethren. Those people donated $1.2 million to National, but Mr Brash could not remember it. On 5 September he said that oh, no,...
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 20 Jun 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... water and moisture. So National’s programme remains. It will try to bribe its way back into power, paid for by the Exclusive Brethren—millions of dollars. As it comes out, the amount of money that that group poured into the National Party keeps rising ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... despite the fact that National promised $11 billion of tax cuts, and despite the fact that National rolled out the Exclusive Brethren, a very strange group of white men who do not even vote, who put a million dollars on the table to help the National ...
General Debate 14 Jun 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF ... beat National, notwithstanding the fact that National was richly and secretly funded by a clandestine group, the Exclusive Brethren. It is an extremist religious group that Don Brash denied was funding National, but it was later revealed that the ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... into the last election saying it was in favour of policies for the mainstream, but it funded its campaign by use of Exclusive Brethren money, which is the antithesis of mainstream. Shadowy white men who do not vote fronted up with more than a million ...
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... and another face for its secret meetings with its secret funders. National received $1.2 million from the non-voting Exclusive Brethren. We know that now, but we did not know that the figure was $1.2 million before the election. Who paid for those really ...
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... some back-benchers would have been appalled at what National was prepared to trade, in exchange for the money of the Exclusive Brethren. Labour members understand family values better than the Opposition, because we know that family values are ...
MOANA MACKEY ... much money it would have cost if that policy had been implemented. He is a man whose policies are so extreme that the Exclusive Brethren feel comfortable with him. National can set up its liberal caucus and decide that it needs to get more “touchy-feely”...
Communications
Communications, Minister—Vodafone 25 May 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Members opposite may trade with the Exclusive Brethren, with Telecom, and with others; this Government does not.
Budget Debate 24 May 2006
JILL PETTIS ... to debate it further, because it has not received much coverage. I refer to the release of the email from the Exclusive Brethren to David Henry, the Chief Electoral Officer. This issue has nothing to do with David Henry. He was quite properly and ...
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... Yes, it is a strong Labour electorate, and Mr Tremain knows how to pull his vote. There was an intervention by the Exclusive Brethren at one point to the tune of $1.2 million during the election, but that electorate will revert to Labour because Mr ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... of practice, in order to finish their work. I seek leave to table the email from Ron Hickmott, indicating that the Exclusive Brethren raised $1.2 million to support the election of the National Party.
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... being said about Australia. National was a once-proud party that used to stand for business; now it stands for the Exclusive Brethren. I have business leaders telling me they are embarrassed to admit they voted National, because they have had a much ...
MOANA MACKEY ... Party in the election campaign. That was probably because they saw that what was meant by “mainstream” was the Exclusive Brethren, and they suddenly thought they should reconsider whether they formed part of that mainstream. Is it not funny that ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... in the city of Hamilton and we had the pamphlets from National’s good, close allies, the somewhat exclusive group the Exclusive Brethren, whose members were trying to act as the political shock troops for the National Party. I am very proud of the effort ...
GEORGINA BEYER ... prepared to table some of my own air points in order to help their leader to go—and by the way, could he drag the Exclusive Brethren off with him? In fact, why do the Exclusive Brethren not pay for the airfares of all the Opposition? It seemed to pay ...
Budget Debate 18 May 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... Zealand made that choice, despite the size of the bribe, and despite the $1.2 million worth of assistance from the Exclusive Brethren. It was a wise choice, and I am proud that the New Zealand—[Interruption] Oh, National members do not like me talking ...
General Debate 17 May 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... he got outside the marae, that he was going to be nasty to them. Where that syndrome really came to light was in the Exclusive Brethren revelations during the course of the campaign. Don Brash, in his opening bid, started off by saying that he could not ...
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... and we are now quietly finding out how much Mr Key and Dr Brash have been cuddling up to their strange religious Exclusive Brethren friends. What has the Government been doing in the meantime? Well, it has been getting on with business. For example,...
General Debate 10 May 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Brash know what he is doing, and deliberately misleads, or is he just confused and does not understand—as with the Exclusive Brethren? Who could do better than Dr Brash at the press conference yesterday? He went into a press conference to refute some ...
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... Do members know what the problem is? Don Brash denied that. He said it was not true. He said, just as he did over the Exclusive Brethren funding National, that he knew nothing about it. When the question was first raised as to whether Don Brash knew ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... common deceit that was shown by the National Party and Don Brash, who denied that National was being funded by the Exclusive Brethren to the tune of $1.2 million. Don Brash even asked for the diary entry on his meeting with them to be removed so that ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 1 Mar 2006
SHANE JONES ... blended social, cultural, and economic ideas. What did National members do with social ideas? They got members of the Exclusive Brethren to write their policy for them. What did they do with cultural ideas? They decided to demonise, stigmatise, and ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... $1.30 to $1.40, because he has become involved in sleaze and because of his inability to recall the deal with the Exclusive Brethren. With John Key, there is no change; he is on $1.50. Bill English has gone from $1.80 to $2, because he has become ...
General Debate 22 Feb 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF ... something about his own integrity. I want to ask him why, on 5 and 6 September, he twice denied any knowledge of the Exclusive Brethren and their distribution of pamphlets, yet on 8 September he said: “I knew they were going to issue some pamphlets ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... hide. He cannot hide from the facts. At his invitation I will table his denial twice that he knew anything about the Exclusive Brethren pamphlets. He denied it twice. Some people outside this House would suggest that when one denies something that one ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... re-elected. It has even got the tick: “Use your party vote to change the Government.” That pamphlet, put out by the Exclusive Brethren in my electorate and designed to support the National Party, was not put on the National Party’s electoral return. ...
Hon RICK BARKER ... I want to pick up on the theme outlined by Phil Goff. I refer to the relationship between the National Party and the Exclusive Brethren. It is absolutely true that Don Brash, who is supposed to be a smart person—he has run the Reserve Bank and he has an ...
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... card, so we are told. Will that party pay it back? No—of course it will not. National received huge support from the Exclusive Brethren. Will the Exclusive Brethren let the National Party go? No, they will not. They will keep influencing it, and the ...
BOB CLARKSON ... says that God’s word will be spread in many ways. That should be taken into consideration when people rubbish the Exclusive Brethren, or I think they will burn in hell. The second point is that Labour members are very consistent; anything they say ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 21 Feb 2006
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... way to get known in Hawke’s Bay and to retain any standing, having ridden here to Parliament on the coat-tails of the Exclusive Brethren, was to try to hog the headlines. After 5 months he is becoming increasingly desperate to make sure he gets headlines. ...
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... by claiming that National had done the same, and that it did not include GST in its returns, and have thrown in the Exclusive Brethren’s involvement for good measure. But the reality is that the only conclusion any listener to this debate could draw ...
Hon RUTH DYSON ... Governor of the Reserve Bank might know how the GST system works. He forgot that, and he forgot his meetings with the Exclusive Brethren—he forgot to include their expenditure for the National Party on its tax returns. That is why New Zealanders were very ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 16 Feb 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... Brash says that is bad. Well, that is not why he was paid money before the election by his big-business mates and the Exclusive Brethren—to come in here and start parading some form of top-down socialism, and to say we should actually be destroying ...
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... is so extreme that the ayatollahs in Tehran would be proud of her efforts. The obvious example is her attack on the Exclusive Brethren, whom she has described as the Taliban. The same thing can be said about her reactions to the Destiny Church and other ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... he wasted so much of his valuable time and this valuable opportunity on that matter, because the expenditure of the Exclusive Brethren church has also been referred to the police for investigation. That group is the secretive, exclusive, non-voting ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... during his speech, wants me to talk about health. He does not want rebuttal and does not want to be told about the Exclusive Brethren. I wonder what would happen, when the police are investigating the issues around the Exclusive Brethren, if they ask ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... of the National Party spending all of his time attacking the Labour Government on expenses when his party and his Exclusive Brethren mates are in front of the cops and are under investigation as well. That is a wasted opportunity, a lost shot, by Dr ...
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... want the next National speaker to tell the House what the quid pro quo was that National offered for support from the Exclusive Brethren and the other right-wing, conservative individuals and organisations that funded the billboard campaign. Who did fund ...
Hon RICK BARKER ... As for Mr Eric Roy, his credibility was lessened considerably when he said that he did not know anything about the Exclusive Brethren. He was just aping the words of his leader, who for 3 days said that he did not have meetings with the Exclusive ...
Prime Minister
Rt Hon Winston Peters—Ministerial Warrant 11 Sep 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... Mr Glenn’s claim that the donation to the Labour Party was made because he was concerned about the activities of the Exclusive Brethren clearly is demonstrably false, because the donation was made before anybody, other than those in the National Party, ...
Privileges Committee—Owen Glenn Evidence 11 Sep 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... only facts that we do know are that Mr Key was acting as a bagman for the National Party, Mr Key had links with the Exclusive Brethren, the National Party got over $2 million of funding in anonymous donations through a trust, and Mr English and Mr Key ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters—Donations 10 Sep 2008
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... Mr Key’s, because we have yet to have any honesty about what he talked to Lord Ashcroft about, what he talked to the Exclusive Brethren about, what he talked to the Spencer Trust about when he was raising money, and what he talks to offshore merchant ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters—Donations 9 Sep 2008
Rt Hon Winston Peters Is the Prime Minister aware of any case of a senior politician claiming not to have met the Exclusive Brethren, only for him to be exposed by television footage and photographs of a meeting occurring; and what is it about the ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK It is perfectly clear that Mr Key met the Exclusive Brethren on several occasions before the last election, in his capacity as chief money-collector and donations-collector for ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... but I am certainly aware that Mr Key could remember not opening an email he could not remember receiving from the Exclusive Brethren.
Foreign Affairs, Racing, Minister—Confidence 31 Jul 2008
Sue Bradford ... Hogan, overtly supporting New Zealand First during the 2005 election campaign, and the covert campaign run by the Exclusive Brethren Church in that year, and does she have any concerns about the connection between that campaign and the fact that Mr ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... overt campaign; it was overtly against the Labour Party at that time, including signs on horses at racetracks. The Exclusive Brethren, however, decided to follow a biblical injunction, and hide their lights well under any large number of bushels.
Foreign Affairs, Racing, Minister—Confidence 23 Jul 2008
Hon Jim Anderton ... not to know about them, has the Prime Minister seen any reports of any party leader who knew about donations by the Exclusive Brethren to buy an election, and did that party leader claim to have forgotten about them; if so, could that member’s record of ...
Cabinet Appointments and Honours Committee—Chair 19 Feb 2008
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK That is a bit rich from the man who could not remember opening the email he knew he had received from the Exclusive Brethren.
Electoral Finance Bill—Prime Minister’s Comments 18 Dec 2007
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... the Leader of the Opposition would be advising people to follow the law, not dodge it as he did with regard to the Exclusive Brethren.
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... wants to be able to spend whatever it likes in order to buy an election, as Mr Key tried to do last time with the Exclusive Brethren.
Electoral Finance Bill—Legal Advice 5 Dec 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... campaigns have always needed to be conscious of electoral law, which of course is why at the last election the Exclusive Brethren and the National Party colluded to stay just within the electoral law, meaning that a $1.2 million campaign could be ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... world. That was actually their aim in life, amazing as it may seem. “Vote National for the end of the world” was the Exclusive Brethren’s purpose.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... by rorting the election law, and the extraordinary thing was that the people who were trying to do that the most—the Exclusive Brethren—were trying to persuade people to vote for a National Government because that would actually have hastened the end of ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Cabinet Processes 4 Dec 2007
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... the work of the “hollow men”. The member was one of the key bagmen who went around collecting the money, briefing the Exclusive Brethren, and knowing they were funding the campaign.
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... one of “meeting with loads of big donors”. That was his role in the last campaign—to thwart electoral law through the Exclusive Brethren and through big donors.
Electoral Finance Bill—Definitions 18 Sep 2007
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK The purpose of the bill is to stop people like John Key working with people like the Exclusive Brethren to rort election spending law.
Electoral Finance Bill—Select Committee Changes 15 Aug 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... that people, for example, may be able to spend a lot of money trying to drive an election in a particular way, as the Exclusive Brethren appeared to be trying to do. This bill is aimed at ensuring that everyone gets a fair deal, that a vote counts, and ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Select Committee Changes 14 Aug 2007
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... and apologise. I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. It is a fact that National Party members were aware of the Exclusive Brethren contribution. They have all had to admit that via their former leader, Don Brash, and Mr Key, who in the emails in The ...
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity 14 Feb 2007
Hon Phil Goff ... reputations for integrity in Parliament will be damaged by the publishing in The Hollow Men of an email from Exclusive Brethren leader Ron Hickmott, setting out in detail plans to spend $1 million to support the National Party, sent to John Key, ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... seeing an email. But whether or not he saw the email, the email addressed to both Mr Key and Dr Brash stated that the Exclusive Brethren had “enjoyed your presentation”.
Ingram Inquiry—Confidence 6 Dec 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... into the affairs of members of Parliament, then I am sure we could launch one into the relations between the Exclusive Brethren and National Party members opposite—notably, Mr Key.
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 13 Sep 2006
Hon Phil Goff ... about it, and in the meantime took the precaution to take out of his diary the repeated meetings he had had with the Exclusive Brethren?
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 6 Sep 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... paid the National Party. I would like to know why Gerry Brownlee was not told that Don Brash was meeting with the Exclusive Brethren. There are a lot of things I would like to know about National Party funding, because that is where corruption comes ....
Hon Trevor Mallard ... that is what the question was about. Gerry Brownlee, during the campaign, was misled by Don Brash with regard to the Exclusive Brethren—
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK I understand that indeed Dr Brash did meet with the Exclusive Brethren, against the advice of staff, but his concession was to take the meeting out of the diary so that Gerry Brownlee did ...
Hon Phil Goff ... integrity of Parliament is enhanced if a leader can get up in this House and say he did not get a dime from the Exclusive Brethren, when I have in my hand a document from the Exclusive Brethren that reads as follows: “Accordingly, we have put ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... want to say that the only knowing avoidance of election law was the National Party’s dodging of $1.2 million from the Exclusive Brethren spent on a political campaign—and I say to Mr Key that I would be careful if I were him, because he met with them and ...
Members of Parliament—Payment for Services 5 Sep 2006
Hon Dr Michael Cullen ... I am sure that if Labour stated—as I think we did previously—that Dr Brash lied in saying he did not know about the Exclusive Brethren, we would be required to withdraw and apologise; Mr Mallard was previously this afternoon.
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 5 Sep 2006
Hon Jim Anderton ... person said to live at a property that was in fact vacant, and which later transpired to be the actions of the Exclusive Brethren?
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... would have been part of the $1.2 million campaign, with the goal of “getting party votes for National”, which the Exclusive Brethren mounted, and which Dr Brash, having originally denied knowledge of, finally fessed up about. Why did he not tell the ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK The arrogance is being caught red-handed taking support from the Exclusive Brethren, which Dr Brash solicited and about which he did not tell the truth. I say to Dr Brash to tell the truth to Parliament ...
Ingram Report—Confidence 29 Aug 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... in Government, for many, many years. I know what a cover-up looks like when Don Brash commissions support from the Exclusive Brethren then will not tell the truth about it.
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 23 Aug 2006
Dr Don Brash ... my last two supplementary questions. She made an irrelevant comment, which was totally without foundation, about the Exclusive Brethren. There is no foundation for it, at all. Could you ask her, please, to address the two questions I have asked.
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... General as invited. I further note that unlike the National Party, so loaded with cash from big corporates and the Exclusive Brethren, the Labour Party did not receive money from them. The National Party held money back so it could use it for ...
Ingram Report—Ministerial Actions 2 Aug 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... I have total confidence in those Ministers—far more confidence than I have in Dr Brash’s propriety in respect of the Exclusive Brethren.
Taito Phillip Field—Ingram Report 19 Jul 2006
Tariana Turia Would the Prime Minister consider that the contribution by the Exclusive Brethren to the National Party is similar to people painting Taito Phillip Field’s house, or are there two standards of conduct ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK I have wondered whether, in return for services by the Exclusive Brethren, the National Party would take certain stands on moral issues. However, I am sure the Brethren have been thrown into ...
Prime Minister—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 4 Apr 2006
Jeanette Fitzsimons Is the Prime Minister concerned that the collaboration of one party with outside agitators, such as the Exclusive Brethren, to produce leaflets that contain malicious lies about other parties brings Parliament and the electoral process into ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... organisations, conniving with the National Party, bring the electoral process into disrepute. Further, I see that the Exclusive Brethren are up to exactly the same tricks in Tasmania, to the detriment of the Greens. If there is one thing this Government ...
Prime Minister—Speech from the Throne 1999 21 Mar 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... will be paying particularly close attention to third party advertising, like that solicited by Dr Brash from the Exclusive Brethren.
Ministers—Confidence 28 Feb 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... It is worth recalling, of course, that the Leader of the Opposition could not remember a discussion with the Exclusive Brethren weeks after it had occurred.
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... that everybody would have formed the same judgment as I have about his inability to recall a discussion with the Exclusive Brethren about election advertising weeks after it had happened.
Prime Minister—Accountability 21 Feb 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... of his party on what is attributable, he may want to raise with them why they did not declare up to $1 million of Exclusive Brethren spending, especially because Murray McCully had editorial control of it.
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... whether she has received reports of a failure to declare expenses—for example, of over half a million dollars by the Exclusive Brethren church, which was in daily liaison with the National Party before the election and well after it, as every one of my ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK I am aware that the Chief Electoral Officer referred Exclusive Brethren pamphlets to the police because he concluded that they appeared to promote the party vote for National. Those ...
Prime Minister—Accountability 16 Feb 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... the budget for the campaign. It is quite clear that the Leader of the Opposition knew a great deal more about the Exclusive Brethren advertising.
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... who paid for the simultaneous delivery, in the city of Gisborne, of leaflets put out by the National Party and the Exclusive Brethren respectively. Both leaflets went out at the same time. Was that attributable?
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... when the party circulated it, and just as I am sure Dr Brash thinks it is not attributable expenditure to have the Exclusive Brethren take lines straight out of National Party policy and put them in leaflets. Where is that in his party’s election return?...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK I will be very happy to bring down to the House a similar document asking the National Party to refund to the Exclusive Brethren half a million to a million dollars, which National told the Chief Electoral Officer was not attributable because it ...
Ministers—Confidence 13 Dec 2005
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... ball if he knows what nobody else does, which is that we are actually going to have a flu pandemic. Possibly the Exclusive Brethren included it with his special issue of their election propaganda. However, unlike members opposite, the Minister of ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
In Committee 13 Dec 2005
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... were being fed a whole load of bovine something or other. They were feeding it out to the people, paid for by the Exclusive Brethren, who I hope pay their taxes even if they do not vote—although our check of the rolls shows that the men vote but the ...
Finance
Tax Cuts—Advisability 13 Mar 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... the same amount of attention to his leader’s statements on tax policy as he does on his statements on meeting the Exclusive Brethren.
Savings—Support Mechanisms 5 Sep 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I have seen reports of the Exclusive Brethren spending $1.2 million to support the election of the National Party, to save it from having to spend the money itself.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN As I said, I have seen reports of the Exclusive Brethren donating $1.2 million of pamphlets and other material for the National Party, to save it from having to attribute that ...
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... Public Finance Act and compliance with it. He has absolutely no responsibility for how any private organisation—the Exclusive Brethren or otherwise—might spend its money. So I simply ask that you require Dr Cullen to answer the very reasonable question ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I have seen reports of savings being made, in terms of attributable expenditure, by the Exclusive Brethren donating $1.2 million for services to the National Party. [ Interruption]
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... if Mr Carter wishes to state in this House, as a matter that is subject to challenge under privilege, that the Exclusive Brethren did not fund $1.2 million worth of pamphlets and other material for the National Party, then that would be very ...
John Carter —Madam Speaker; I beg your pardon—that to the best of my knowledge the Exclusive Brethren spent their own money on their own pamphlets, and not on National Party pamphlets.
Rt Hon Helen Clark I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I am looking here at a document where it states the Exclusive Brethren went to the Chief Electoral Officer wanting a budget to be spent of $1.2 million with the goal of “getting party votes ...
Labour Party Pledge Card— 23 Aug 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... once, it might care to be consistent in its position. Of course, for that party—a party that accepted money from the Exclusive Brethren, denied it had done so, then admitted it, and denied it knew about the pamphlets—to talk about consistency is ...
Air New Zealand—Meeting of Ministers and Executives 28 Jun 2006
R Doug Woolerton ... dinner in a public place and discuss Air New Zealand and the welfare of the country, or to have discussions with the Exclusive Brethren behind closed doors?
Current Account Deficit—Oil Prices 22 Jun 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... to the point of order, I think that that is a very important point. Members opposite should wear scarves saying “Exclusive Brethren”, because they have already been sponsored.
Inflation—Wage Growth 13 Dec 2005
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... the Council of Trade Unions was saying that thanks to the propaganda put out by both the National Party and the Exclusive Brethren on its behalf, people have come to misunderstand what the operating surplus is. Of course, one cannot have it both ....
General Debate 7 Dec 2005
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... billboards that included what could be described as an incitement to racial division in this country, through to the Exclusive Brethren pamphlets. Who paid for the billboards? Will anyone from the National Party stand up and say who paid for the ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... saw, in the paper, what has been divulged—$100,000 of overspending. But there is more than that. Let us look at the Exclusive Brethren issue. I say to Mr Williamson, who referred to the trade union movement, that I simply rebut his point with this: for ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... is just absolute incompetence, and, of course, the Leader of the Opposition is known for that. Then there was the Exclusive Brethren’s association with that. How does the Exclusive Brethren Church, whose members do not take part in elections, read ...
Social Development and Employment
Child, Youth and Family Services—Community Organisations and Service Providers 23 Nov 2006
Hon RUTH DYSON ... out New Zealanders, and everything to do with money. National builds relationships with community groups, like the Exclusive Brethren and the Business Roundtable—
Social Development and Employment, Minister—Police Decision 7 Dec 2005
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... National Party, who could not remember a month-old conversation with senators, or a 4-day-old conversation with the Exclusive Brethren?
Address in Reply 23 Nov 2005
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... small religious sect. It was a matter of organisation, as well. In our region, push-polling was organised out of an Exclusive Brethren school. When people insisted that they were going to vote Labour—when they repeatedly said: “No, I’m voting Labour.”—oft...
Hon RICK BARKER ... to the cause. That is what the National Party did. It was supported—and, I thought, in a very surprising way—by the Exclusive Brethren, whom I want to deal with just briefly. Two of the members of the Exclusive Brethren who appeared on the front page of ...
Address in Reply 22 Nov 2005
DARREN HUGHES ... We saw the $7 billion tax bribe, and we saw them playing the race card, and getting their cult members from the Exclusive Brethren Church to run the campaign at half-time for them. All it did for the National Party was to reorganise the Opposition. ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... the tolerant or the intolerant? I think we can judge from the links between Dr Brash, the National Party, and the Exclusive Brethren—those links that Dr Brash was forced to admit he had told inconsistent things about, and was forced to apologise for. ...
MOANA MACKEY ... in order to get power. National talked a lot about the mainstream. And what did the mainstream mean? It meant the Exclusive Brethren. National claimed not to be concerned about the fact the Exclusive Brethren were helping out. Why, then, did Dr Brash ...
GEORGINA BEYER ... nature. It was also evidenced by the conservative nature of some religious elements in this country. There were the Exclusive Brethren, who do not vote and do not participate in politics, apparently, unless it is to help out—although it stands back from ...
Address in Reply 15 Nov 2005
Hon PETE HODGSON ... and people’s speeches, or the most ugly subtext that came out in the pamphlets that were put out, we now know, by the Exclusive Brethren. How did we know? We knew because the Green Party outed those people. Then we had the spectre of the then—and still—Le...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... sorry. But that was days afterwards. That was after we had learnt that the Leader of the Opposition had met with the Exclusive Brethren on one occasion, and on the following day we learnt that the Leader of the Opposition had met with the Exclusive ...
MARIAN HOBBS ... and other illiberal sideshows, and once we exposed the strange behaviour of Dr Brash and the secretive support by the Exclusive Brethren, we got down to the kernel of what determines the differences between the two main political approaches—thank you, ...