Mentions of The New Zealand Herald in New Zealand Parliament debates

Hon ANNETTE KING ... The Warehouse, the wood-processing industry, and Alliance Group meatworks. It reminded me of a headline I saw in the New Zealand Herald in January 1993, which said: “Welcome to benefitville, coming to your town soon.” I have to tell ...

Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... but also must be represented in Parliament in even greater numbers. It was very pleasing, then, to see in the New Zealand Herald this morning the editorial that acknowledged the vital role that ACT has played in this Parliament. ACT,...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... Green Party, the Māori Party, and the Mana Party are in that category, but not Peter Dunne, as was asserted in the New Zealand Herald today in its editorial. I was at a public meeting with Peter Dunne on the night of the bill’s tabling, ...

Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... measure. I believe it is an example of Parliament working well, and I endorse the excellent editorial in the New Zealand Herald today in that regard. From the time the judgment was unsuppressed, we have approached this situation ...

KEITH LOCKE ... and Charles Chauvel for their comments about me and this being my last afternoon in Parliament. I also agree with the New Zealand Herald editorial; even though I did not entirely disagree, it was a bit too positive about the resulting ....

RAYMOND HUO ... the attention of this House two important and meaningful articles by Brian Gaynor. The first one was published in the New Zealand Herald in 2007. It is entitled “How Muldoon threw away NZ’s wealth”. The second one, “Key’s compulsory super ...

Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... Cup. He started off diplomatically by suggesting that Auckland had no vision. That was Trevor’s opening shot in the New Zealand Herald—that Auckland had no vision. He said, with regard to a revamped Eden Park, that it was a poor second option that showed ...

Hon NATHAN GUY ... be ashamed. Let us think about some of the positives that came out of that opening. April Ieremia wrote in the New Zealand Herald: “better than Olympics … a phenomenal opening ceremony, … I have been to a number of Olympic and ...

Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... as a man who died while on a mission to rescue others, and it was not his first time attempting to do so. In the New Zealand Herald last week a friend of his recalled serving alongside him in East Timor, where they helped rescue 600 villagers from a ...

RAHUI KATENE ... issue, why were the name and the nature of the legislation kept secret until mid-morning today? According to the New Zealand Herald, the explanation for the secrecy was fears the bill might lead to a flood of legal challenges. That ...

KELVIN DAVIS ... they can or cannot freedom camp? They will not know. It is not like it will be the headline on the front page of the New Zealand Herald or the Dominion Post; it will be tucked away somewhere in the back pages. No tourist ...

KELVIN DAVIS ... as Rick Barker said earlier, there has been a move taken by a local authority, which has been gazetted and put in the New Zealand Herald, and which no one knows about it. Why would those people believe that this person had any sort of ...

Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... can decide that people cannot stay there. Unfortunately, the people from Finland may not have been able to read the New Zealand Herald. They do not go online very often. They probably do not think the New Zealand Herald ...

Hon RUTH DYSON ... for their service. We know that more and more of our New Zealand children are going without breakfast. The New Zealand Herald reported recently that 4,000 children every day are going to school without even having any breakfast ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... not less, competitive.” As a consequence of that, in part, we have comments like this from John Roughan at the New Zealand Herald. He wrote “Tax-free capital gains on property investment is the one crippling flaw remaining in our ...

DAVID SHEARER ... be security issues as such, but more of a political nature. I commend the Gwynne Dyer article in yesterday’s New Zealand Herald, where he looks at the various permutations that have taken place in the investigation of the killing of the Lebanese ...

CLARE CURRAN ... the Commerce Committee as being overly complicated, unnecessary, and even unconstitutional. Now we have it back. The New Zealand Herald has described the bill as ill-considered, the Maxim Institute calls it a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and ...

RAYMOND HUO ...y’s Dean of Law, Professor Paul Rishworth, says that it could clog up the courts and draw officials into legal battles. New Zealand Herald commentator, Brian Fallow, says that the principles are abstract, constitutionally unorthodox, and substantively ...

TODD McCLAY ... sales. There was a wonderful column in the newspaper just today from John Armstrong, a very astute writer in the New Zealand Herald:“Labour push against asset sales doomed to fail”. We have not heard a lot about that ...

Hon HEATHER ROY ... commentator Gareth Morgan captured the essence of our economic malaise very well in his column in this morning’s New Zealand Herald, “Bubbles on beer budget poor life choice”. He points out: “this is one of the most indebted countries in the world ...

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... failure of the previous Government to be prepared to save at the appropriate time. I was fascinated to read in the New Zealand Herald this morning that people like Owen Glenn, who is a friend of the Labour Party, say that it is about ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... gentlemen of the press. How about the “Taxation (Fairytale of High Hopes on a Frayed Thread) Bill”, courtesy of the New Zealand Herald? That is not a bad start. How about the “Annual Rates (Budget Lacks Job Creation Plan) Bill”, courtesy of the National ...

SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... Bill” is probably a better name. It could also be called the “Pay More to Save the Same Bill”. Is that not what the New Zealand Herald called it? That is a good name for it. It could be called the “Broken Promises Bill”, because many ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... On 19 December 2008, just some days after taking office, the finance Minister Bill English said the following in the New Zealand Herald: “I want to stress that New Zealand starts from a reasonable position in dealing with the uncertainty ...

AARON GILMORE ... way. What are people saying out there today, as a response to Mr English’s third Budget? The commentator in the New Zealand Herald, Audrey Young, gave the Budget six out of ten. That is not bad; I thought that was not bad. John Armstrong, the great ...

Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN ... He will be livid about that. He is being badly, badly exposed for a lack of a plan. If one reads his column in the New Zealand Herald today, one will see there is a lot of guff, a lot of unfunded stuff, and no specifics. Three months ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... I will read to members what Bill English said on 18 December 2008, shortly after he took over. The quote is from the New Zealand Herald. Bill English said: “I want to stress that New Zealand starts from a reasonable position in dealing with the ...

BRENDON BURNS ... expect that gentleman to be a well-paid person. But I looked at a table of executive pay summaries in the weekend’s New Zealand Herald and saw that the chief executive of Westpac here in New Zealand, George Frazis, is the highest paid ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... Sharing) Amendment Bill. The reason I raise the issue is that I have before me an article by Brian Fallow from the New Zealand Herald on 31 March. In it he starts with what we all know: “A balance has to be struck between on the one hand fostering ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... the length of copyright periods, and whether the section 92 provisions in the bill will be reopened. According to the New Zealand Herald on 31 March, from the content of leaked proposals from the United States Government in the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...

HILARY CALVERT ... Mr Whimp has made over $1 million by sucking in the unsuspecting. As business commentator Liam Dann said in the New Zealand Herald on 12 February: “The unsatisfactory part of the Whimp transactions is that, despite being legal, the ...

DAVID SHEARER ... that a lot could be done to improve road safety. Here I hold the evidence. If members look at this front page of the New Zealand Herald from last week, they will see the heading “2 Killed, 5 Hurt”. This refers to the same piece of road on ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... the plug when the finance company’s auditor, Ernst and Young, ran the ruler over it. I refer to her article in the New Zealand Herald of 1 September. She said: “Instead, South Canterbury became the beneficiary of an extended government ...

Hon TONY RYALL ... the Opposition this week, after weeks of speculation about leadership. David Parker had a half-page write-up in the New Zealand Herald at the weekend, and there was one column for David Cunliffe on page 3—one paragraph—and a big half-page on that other ...

KEITH LOCKE ... are taking this to mean any military action against any targets. Coalition commanders were quoted yesterday in the New Zealand Herald as saying that this could include ground intervention if Gaddafi stays in power. Yesterday the British ...

KEITH LOCKE ... the ground, even though the UN resolution prohibits a “foreign occupation force” in Libya. We read in this morning’s New Zealand Herald that “Coalition commanders argue that a ground intervention is not the same as an occupation, and that this form of ...

Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... she should be proud—she should be absolutely proud. One has to look no further than the article that appeared in the New Zealand Herald last Wednesday penned by the Hon Pita Sharples and the Hon Tariana Turia, in which they set out the ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... rights alongside councillors who had been elected by the people of Auckland. That is an outrage. The columns of the New Zealand Herald are full of it, and Aucklanders do not like it. I see that TV3 has just launched a new satire ....

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... to the takeovers legislation, because that is the one that has excited the most public comment, and certainly in the New Zealand Herald this morning there was quite an article of substance on it. But before commenting on this specific ...

CLARE CURRAN ... when the bill gets to the select committee. I note the issues raised by the reporter Adam Bennett in this morning’s New Zealand Herald in a piece entitled “Planned ‘friendly’ amendment to Takeovers Act sparks worry”. Essentially, the ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... years ago. Bert worked until just a few years before he died, his final job having been that of a messenger for the New Zealand Herald. Management finally caught up with my grandfather at the age of 82 and suggested to him that a few ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... Zealand that can make sure there is a plan for the future in our country, not just a gimmick for tomorrow morning’s New Zealand Herald or Dominion Post. We need leaders in this country who understand that prices are going up faster than wages, whatever ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... was a choice; it was a choice to put resources elsewhere. Housing is also a huge issue, certainly in Auckland. The New Zealand Herald has recently provided some pretty good coverage of what is going on with the rental housing market in ...

Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... our unemployment rate is higher than Australia’s should be a concern to us. Already we have seen in the last week the New Zealand Herald report that net outwards immigration to Australia is back on the increase. We need to focus ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... would turbocharge the New Zealand economy—turbocharge the New Zealand economy. Well, Fran O’Sullivan writes for the New Zealand Herald and she is known to be a supporter of the Government. She reflected on that. The turbocharge, she said,...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... as a Government one, and the deal was done in the lead-up to the 2008 election. Here is the quote from the New Zealand Herald: “Mr Key, who made the referendum one of 10 election pledges in his speech to National’s annual ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... that is what it is. I will just put on record how that would have worked in the last election, and, fortunately, the New Zealand Herald columnist John Armstrong put it all together in a nice little piece. I will quote that into the record:...

NIKKI KAYE ... opposite in their true colours. I will never forget being a researcher when members opposite said that it was a New Zealand Herald beat-up to say that we have leaky homes in New Zealand. I was very sad for the many families who suffered under the ...

SUE KEDGLEY I noticed a subheading in today’s New Zealand Herald that stated: “Allowing the mining industry to self-regulate was an unfathomable mistake,” and I think exactly the same ...

Dr CAM CALDER ... famously told NewstalkZBhost Paul Holmes that she had not taken much notice of the New Zealand Herald’s numerous stories about leaky homes, because the New Zealand Herald was well known ...

Hon SHANE JONES Today the readers of that troublesome, irritating media outlet otherwise known as the New Zealand Herald have been given a very clear example of the treacherousness of the territory surrounding the issues that the ...

Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... this Parliament is restricting the rights of New Zealanders to participate. Mr Hodgson cannot understand why the New Zealand Herald would stand up for the rights of ordinary New Zealanders to speak out in an election year. I pay ...

KEITH LOCKE ... putting up the minimum wage, and we might pull our restaurants out.”, or some sort of leverage like that? Even the New Zealand Herald, which is not necessarily the most left-wing, pro-Green, pro-union newspaper in the land, has an ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... the subsidies available and also in terms of changing our domestic labour law, are necessary. Certainly the New Zealand Herald has taken up the challenge. I can put it on record that the New Zealand Herald has ...

GRANT ROBERTSON ... this legislation on 8 November, as proposed by Trevor Mallard, is clearly something that the editorial writer of the New Zealand Herald would support. But perhaps what is even more interesting than that to me are the letters to the editor ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... ones who see this legislation as somewhat mickey mouse. I draw the Committee’s attention to the cartoon in today’s New Zealand Herald, “Emmerson’s View”. It is very appropriate. It shows the Prime Minister going on about Warner Bros ...

Hon TAU HENARE ...rk) Amendment Bill. I will quote John Armstrong, that great resident—although he has not got his citizenship yet—in the New Zealand Herald today. He said: “The Government has made the right decision for the film industry and for the wider economy.” So why ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... owned enterprise, New Zealand Post—he is the man they called a failure. Listen to this, this is Bill English in the New Zealand Herald 18 December 2008: “I want to stress that New Zealand starts from a reasonable position in dealing with the uncertainty ...

Hon TAU HENARE ... one thing that really worries me about the settlement process is who learns from it. Today at home I opened up the New Zealand Herald and there was a public notice for the AGM of what I found out was the Ngāti Whare Trust, but the New ...

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... overseas, each with their own tale of how the student loan bill got out of control. I will quote an article from the New Zealand Herald of 4 September 2010 about somebody known as Trev. “Trev is not this Kiwi loan refugee’s real name but ...

JOHN HAYES ... to the comments of the High Commissioner of India in New Zealand, retired Admiral Sureesh Mehta, as reported by the New Zealand Herald. He said the Government had handled the issue “quite well”. He went on to say he believed a visit to India by Prime ...

STUART NASH ... know that whatever Chris Finlayson says must be right, as the guy walks on water—he has told us as much himself. The New Zealand Herald’s economic reporter called this bill unfair, unaffordable, and unlikely to happen. Mary Holm said that ...

KELVIN DAVIS ... that have been taken. They are vital for protecting us from foreign pests. We need only to look at today’s New Zealand Herald to see an instance of a pest getting into New Zealand. OK, it was not at an airport. The pest was a ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... at the expense of taxpayers, and some others have been bankrupted. That may be why Fran O’Sullivan said in today’s New Zealand Herald that the Government has effectively been “gamed”: gamed in the name of blind ideology. Or was it to ...

SIMON BRIDGES ... and given the technological advances we have seen in this area. I think, for example, of a story I read in the New Zealand Herald earlier this week. The chief press officer for the current British Prime Minister is involved in a ...

CLARE CURRAN ... supervision, which is information about practitioners that will be easily accessible to the public. Last week in the New Zealand Herald there was the story of Ram Rai, a former restaurant owner, who got into a dispute with liquidator ...

STUART NASH ...V—what is meant by a look-through company. Was anyone aware of this proposal? Was it published as a half-page ad in the New Zealand Herald that loss attributing qualifying companies would no longer exist and would become look-through ...

RAHUI KATENE ... to a dwelling that is owned and occupied by its residents. In August 2009 Brian Fallow, the economics editor of the New Zealand Herald, suggested that it was time to add GST to rents and mortgages, as currently housing is perceived as a ...

RAYMOND HUO ... Superannuation Fund until 2018, despite a forecast surplus in 2016. Brian Gaynor, in an article published in the New Zealand Herald on 21 August this year, stated very strongly that National Prime Minister Robert Muldoon’s termination ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... of Defence, had significant concerns about the security of the paperwork and documentation in her office. The New Zealand Herald makes it very clear today that the Associate Minister was concerned that documents related to the ...

CARMEL SEPULONI ... parents from west Auckland have come through my office. One of them, in fact, had an article written about her in the New Zealand Herald this morning. The woman is studying at an Auckland tertiary institution; she is trying to raise her 12-y...

RAYMOND HUO ... professions, I used to work very closely on specific occasions with the police. As the Asian affairs reporter for the New Zealand Herald—which was a long time ago—I worked very closely with its Auckland-based Asian crime unit. Later, as a ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... for Economic Development who has not been on top of things; the Prime Minister has not been, either. What did the New Zealand Herald say in the weekend? Its editorial on this issue stated: “Trudging along the same old road is not going ...

RAYMOND HUO Whenever we open a newspaper—the New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post, or any other daily or weekly newspaper—to seek information from its classified advertisements, the ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... In the weekend papers, Rod Oram was absolutely spot on. The failure of nerve means that we cannot export. The New Zealand Herald had the headline, “The deal drought”. Why is it that Kiwi companies cannot succeed? It is because they ...

KEVIN HAGUE ... Energy Strategy, and I thought I might begin with that point also. Perhaps the strategy is unkindly criticised by the New Zealand Herald, which talks about its lack of detail and content. Probably the New Zealand Herald has not understood that the ...

Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... I talk more broadly about the energy sector as a whole. The first point I make is that I noted the editorial in the New Zealand Herald this morning, but I make it clear to the Committee that I have long since given up any hope that the New Zealand Herald ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... yet the Prime Minister will not accept responsibility for the part that he played in that decision. I hold up the New Zealand Herald with an article entitled “Muddled Govt mining stance fatally flawed”. It was fatally flawed. Gerry ...

JONATHAN YOUNG ... by the Prime Minister, John Key, on the extension of the 90-day employment trial period to all employers, the New Zealand Herald reported that the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the National Distribution ...

CLARE CURRAN ... walk away from their home after losing everything in Blue Chip investments. This couple, as has been reported in the New Zealand Herald, like so many were not foolish with their money but, rather, received misguided financial advice. ...

STUART NASH ... ordinary New Zealanders. I talked about Mark Hotchin’s $30 million mansion. I will give members a quote from the New Zealand Herald: “A half-finished $30 million mansion … is big enough to contain 13 average houses just on its floor ...

SIMON BRIDGES ... have been a couple more cases of imprisonment for animal cruelty. Certainly I am aware of the one reported in the New Zealand Herald on 26 May under the headline “Farmer jailed for cruelty to thousands of chickens”. It states: “An ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... raised serious objections, but they sure as hell will have to pay for it. We managed to get hold of a copy of the New Zealand Herald for 2012, and this is the story on the front page: “Rates explosion. Thank you Rodney”. That headline ...

Dr JACKIE BLUE ... organisations. Bob Harvey, Mayor of Waitakere City, praised council-controlled organisations in a letter to the New Zealand Herald in March of this year. He said: “For the record, CCOs have worked well for Waitakere City. In 1989 we ...

Hon KATE WILKINSON ... this Budget sets for the New Zealand economy. There is one quote that appeals to me. It is feedback from the New Zealand Herald, and it states: “The worst bit about the Budget was listening to Mr Goff respond to it in Parliament.” ...

JONATHAN YOUNG ... Both were convicted killers who committed murder while on parole. When this reform bill was first proposed, the New Zealand Herald ran a poll because it believed that such a toughening of the law would damage our international ...

JONATHAN YOUNG ... came into Government at a time of dire financial circumstances. It was great to read what John Armstrong from the New Zealand Herald said about yesterday’s Budget announcement. He said: “It has turned those muddy economic waters into ...

SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... a little bit on where we have come from. Members will recall that on 17 November 2008 Martin Johnston of the New Zealand Herald wrote an article—members may have read it, I do not know—that said: “ACT has a radical agenda for ...

Hon TAU HENARE I read in the New Zealand Herald this morning “Apathy towards jobless issue does us no credit”, and that 38 percent of Māori aged between 15 and 19 are ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... it was mostly a fake listening campaign. It is no wonder Aucklanders feel ignored, and 56 percent of them told the New Zealand Herald the other day that they do not want to be part of a super-city.

Hon SHANE JONES ... that they will get the blame. Day after day the super-city is stressed and emphasised as the lie it is by the New Zealand Herald, which has Rodney Hide in its sights. Rodney Hide went from Rodney down to the Waikato, continually ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... and it makes it absolutely clear that the council-controlled organisations are taxable entities, which is why the New Zealand Herald reported today on its front page that Aucklanders would be up for tens of millions of dollars in ....

Hon PHIL GOFF ... in Auckland, condemned by the National Party candidate for the Auckland mayoralty, John Banks, condemned by the New Zealand Herald, the Herald on Sunday, and suburban newspapers, and condemned by almost every ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... has a technique for brushing aside issues that it would rather not confront”. That was the editorial in today’s New Zealand Herald. It also said that this Government is jumping on the bandwagon to be popular and to get votes with a haphazard approach ...

Hon PETER DUNNE ... the work in 2007 to try to get a handle on how many overseas borrowers there were, we used popular websites like the New Zealand Herald website—we put sidebar advertisements on it—and, from memory, the Stuff website, because they are ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... who are staring down the barrel of a super-city that is likely to significantly increase their cost of living. A New Zealand Herald poll taken a couple of weeks ago showed that nearly two-thirds of Aucklanders believed that the super-ci...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... One banking case was outstanding, and that ruined it for the rest of the banks. Here is the front page of the New Zealand Herald this morning, as we debate in the Committee stage and final stages of this bill: “$45 million: ...

JOHN BOSCAWEN ... enforcing that law. Some 3 weeks ago, prior to Parliament resuming, I was surprised to read on the front page of the New Zealand Herald that the new head of the Serious Fraud Office was committing the resources of his office exclusively ...

RAYMOND HUO This afternoon, almost immediately after the Prime Minister delivered his speech to Parliament, the New Zealand Herald website published three opinion articles by three influential commentators. Mr John Armstrong started by stating: “John ...

DAVID SHEARER ... that the speculation is out there but we really do not yet know any of the detail. Mr Brian Fallow, writing in the New Zealand Herald, stated: “Business is unlikely to be blown away by the boldness of the vision outlined in today’s ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... of the super-city down to $160 million, but he forgot to tell Parliament about another $40 million in costs; the New Zealand Herald reported 5 days later that the cost of the super-city is actually $200 million and counting. Over ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... to the second bill and to this bill asked that the powers of local boards be guaranteed and enshrined in law. The New Zealand Herald has called for it. Almost every major interest group and organisation and hundreds and hundreds of ...

DAVID SHEARER ... of what happens when the assets of Auckland are put into council-controlled organisations. A few months ago the New Zealand Herald talked about the real challenge of the Auckland governance legislation having to serve, in a sense, ...

PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... and services for Auckland. For members who do not believe me—and I know members opposite do not—I will quote from the New Zealand Herald of Tuesday, 25 May: “it presents a workable framework for uniting Auckland that should have the ...

Hon JOHN CARTER ... the Minister and I went to Auckland to tell the people about the select committee report, it took the likes of the New Zealand Herald reporters just a few hours to click on and understand. Unfortunately, that seems to be beyond the ...

Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... Simon Bridges, who hardly got into the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill, at all. I do not think that the New Zealand Herald column will save Nikki Kaye. I think her obituary has been written by the New Zealand Herald already. This bill ...

NIKKI KAYE I will start with a quote from the New Zealand Herald“It presents a workable framework for uniting Auckland, which should have the support of all Aucklanders.” I say to ...

Dr CAM CALDER ... received—submissions that this Government has listened to, to such an extent that no finer authority than the royal New Zealand Herald said that the select committee has done a worthy job and that it now falls to Aucklanders to make the super-city work. ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... made poor decisions and poor judgment calls. It is no surprise that a solid 50 percent of Aucklanders in the recent New Zealand Herald DigiPoll did not want a bar of this Government’s super-city. Let us examine the claim made in recent ...

DAVID CLENDON ... of autonomy were essentially ignored in the final product that has come out of the select committee process. The New Zealand Herald, in a rather generous turn of phrase, suggested that there had been a U-turn between the original bill ...

JOHN BOSCAWEN ... doing that—but I ask members to imagine how Mr Twyford must have felt when he woke up on Tuesday morning to find the New Zealand Herald saying: “Super City u-turn: People power wins”. The man who staked his reputation on trying to undermine the Government ...

Dr JACKIE BLUE ... the Associate Minister of Local Government on their leadership and hard work. This bill has been acclaimed by various New Zealand Herald reports, and I know that, as time goes on, and as the public understand the changes we have made, they ...

Hon RODNEY HIDE ... that the select committee reports back to the House by 4 May 2010. I conclude this speech with a quotation from the New Zealand Herald, which has done a good, but not always uncritical, job of reporting the progress towards a Greater ...

Hon JOHN CARTER ... this legislation at this time and make progress. The Minister of Local Government referred in his speech to the New Zealand Herald. I too want to draw the House’s attention to articles that have appeared in the New Zealand Herald

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY Tēnā koe, Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou katoa. I seldom agree with anything written by the New Zealand Herald’s conservative commentator Garth George, so I was astounded to find myself in full agreement with his column last week, ...

RAHUI KATENE ... were in this category. Since then, all hell has broken loose. Seventeen Manukau-based lawyers penned a letter to the New Zealand Herald and to the Minister of Justice, Simon Power. Four members of the Legal Services Agency resigned, and yesterday we ...

MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... on the wall in that meeting. But how is this for equivocal support? Labour’s own president, Andrew Little, told the New Zealand Herald he had “personal concerns” about the speech, and said that the speech had received a mixed response ...

BRENDON BURNS ... in place a compulsory superannuation scheme. It is funded by a 9 percent employer contribution. Brian Gaynor in the New Zealand Herald recently commented on the benefits to Australia of that scheme. He said that over the last 10 years “Aus...

RAHUI KATENE ... who permanently emigrate from New Zealand to Australia. But as Tapu Misa wrote so convincingly in yesterday’s New Zealand Herald, it isnot the gap between New Zealand and Australia that we should target; it is the ...

CARMEL SEPULONI ... at the facts. A report from the University of Auckland states that crime decreased under the Labour Government. A New Zealand Herald article in April 2008 stated: “The New Zealand crime rate remained flat in 2007, while police resolved almost 10,000 ...

CARMEL SEPULONI ... increase has been recorded. I say to Mr Garrett, who never yells in the House, that for his sake I will look at the New Zealand Herald and also at a press release put out by the university that gives information on the fact there has ...

H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... the Crown. In doing some research on this, I discovered an article by Patrick Gower, a political reporter for the New Zealand Herald. He had this to say: “Maori are set to become landlords of a prison for the first time in a deal where ...

DAVID SHEARER ... then get turned into products that are sold at higher value by other companies abroad. That needs to change. As the New Zealand Herald noted: “The need to lift Fonterra’s products beyond bulk cheese blocks and milk powder has never been ...

DAVID SHEARER ... through this bill, which will mean that New Zealanders pay more and get much less. A respected journalist in the New Zealand Herald,Brian Fallow, said this last year: “For the Government to wrap legitimate concerns ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... from about 30 percent in private insurance schemes to 10 percent. There was a very good comment by Tapu Misa in the New Zealand Herald recently. She talked about the fact that it is easy forget how revolutionary our accident compensation ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... an offender, and there is not a lot of difference from a fine apart from the use of another word—do not work. In the New Zealand Herald on 2 February 2009 she said “There’s no point fining people who don’t pay fines when you’ve got other ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... the Income Tax Act, or the emissions trading scheme legislation. There is no basis for having separate rules. The New Zealand Herald put it very well in its editorial, saying there are things that we do not know when we enter into a ...

CRAIG FOSS ... world, with or without this bill. My pride in New Zealand goes beyond that. There was a very good article in the New Zealand Herald this morning by Brian Fallow. There is a lot of politics around this stuff, but I think that what is ...

LOUISE UPSTON ... believes that it is important for young New Zealanders to pay their debts off faster. I refer to an article in the New Zealand Herald earlier this year that talked about the surge in individual debt, which has gone from $62.7 billion to $...

H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... tree protection. It is not just my Labour colleagues or my Green colleagues who oppose clause 52. If we look at the New Zealand Herald, the headline on 7 September reads: “Tree law change aids ‘sneaky’ choppers”. I will quote from the ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... is taking. The Government is trying to assure us that it will not happen, but it is very interesting to note that the New Zealand Herald environment reporter yesterday talked about what might happen to protect trees. Her view is that ...

JONATHAN YOUNG ... New Zealanders through the turbulent economic times we have been through and continue to face. Recently, the New Zealand Herald reported that John Kidd, a McDouall Stuart analyst, had said “The Government must provide some clarity ...

STUART NASH ... opposite smiling and clapping. Quite frankly, that is one of the saddest things I can imagine. I read about it in the New Zealand Herald and I thought: “Goodness me! Imagine if that had been my parents.” Let us imagine that it had been our ...

JOHN BOSCAWEN ... reading speech, talked about the banking inquiry that the Opposition organised. He referred to the front page of the New Zealand Herald business section of 15 July, calling on the Government to support that inquiry. It is interesting that ...

STUART NASH ... and read about the horror stories—some of us were much sicker than others, though. Then there was the story in the New Zealand Herald on 16 August about Karina Williams, who has watched her parents’ health deteriorate rapidly since they ...

RAYMOND HUO ... that point, it is worth quoting what the chairman of the Environmental Defence Society, Mr Gary Taylor, said in the New Zealand Herald, that the recent announcement by the National-led Government of a target of 10 to 20 percent reduction ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... was considering, what it might deliberate on, and what it might report back to the House. It is no wonder that the New Zealand Herald stated that that was an abuse of the due process of democracy. New Zealanders and Aucklanders turned ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... on typewriters around this country, the Dominion Post was labelling him the loser of the week. The New Zealand Herald was writing stories about him saying he was fudging the health numbers, and we saw evidence of that in ...

KEITH LOCKE ... are having a lot of problems with staying in the country when they lose their jobs. According to this morning’s New Zealand Herald, 38,000 people are here on what are called work-tested temporary visas. They are skilled people. We need the people ...

TIM MACINDOE ... the many pretenders to the throne is left standing when the looming battle in the Labour caucus room is over. As the New Zealand Herald’s political commentator John Armstrong wrote a few days ago, it was an important political lesson for “t...

KATRINA SHANKS ... that his recession package, once heralded as the solution to the recession, was just a casual interview with the New Zealand Herald. That is yet another case of “Visa-nomics”. We have seen in the papers that Labour’s deputy leader, ...

KEITH LOCKE ... that are taking place in Afghanistan around now, but, as respected columnist Gwynne Dyer points out in this morning’s New Zealand Herald, it will be through “bribery, blackmail, and threats”. He will win in a coalition with local warlords, ...

KEITH LOCKE ... In fact, it goes completely the opposite way. There have been articles in the Dominion Post, the New Zealand Herald, and all kinds of papers, and when we read the stories of why people in Afghanistan go towards the ...

DAVID BENNETT ... is an attempt to do that throughout the world. People are looking for cleaner, greener forms of car technology. The New Zealand Herald today has an article about a US programme that is basically encouraging people to trade in gas ...

Hon PAULA BENNETT ... What shall we do?”. So they plucked that plan out of the air—absolutely plucked it out of the air—and threw it to the New Zealand Herald. There was no thinking done, and no consideration given to the cost. They just thought: “Let’s give ...

JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... 85 percent go by car because they have no choice. When we provide choice, people use public transport. Figures in the New Zealand Herald earlier this year showed that over the last year, patronage on public transport in Auckland grew by 3.9...

CLARE CURRAN ... closed down? The recession blues that used-car sales employees are feeling are very concerning. As quoted in the New Zealand Herald of 25 February this year, “Industry groups say the closures, and cutbacks at surviving dealerships, ...

BRENDON BURNS ... recognise Radio New Zealand. I again note the issue of funding for Radio New Zealand. John Drinnan in the New Zealand Herald quite recently talked about a somewhat miserly approach to Radio New Zealand. This is a newspaper ...

Hon SHANE JONES ... is to be enhanced. How will the Government grow the economy? No. Tau Henare obviously read the wrong end of the New Zealand Herald this morning. He started to talk to us about the current account balance. I say to Tau that come ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... has done, is very much an unwise decision that we are opposing very, very strongly. Just today we saw in the New Zealand Herald that up to 10 percent of the total police fleet of vehicles is to be axed as a cost-cutting measure. ...

DARIEN FENTON ... who attend private schools can pay lower fees. People will have to pay more for their doctors, as noted in the New Zealand Herald today. These are the people who will pay for this Budget. They are the real people whom National never ...

Hon PETE HODGSON ... you so.” We will say “You misled us.” That was never better explained than yesterday in Brian Rudman’s article in the New Zealand Herald, where he talked about the need for the National Government to squirm. He pointed out in words of one ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... effectively, only when they got into Government. Mr Rudman made some very interesting points in his article in the New Zealand Herald on 27 May. He said: “It seems we’re drifting back to those bad old days. Earlier this month, Prime ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... that there was nothing wrong with the scheme, and that this was a case of scaremongering. Fran O’Sullivan from the New Zealand Herald criticised Dr Smith by saying there was a fine line between using the international financial crisis ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... I would recommend to the members opposite, called “A shortage of living room” by Geoff Cumming, and published in the New Zealand Herald on Saturday 2 May. In that article, he goes into quite a lot of analysis of what is going on with ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... on some comments made by Mērata Kāwharu of Auckland and of Ngāti Whātua, who wrote a very good op-ed piece in the New Zealand Herald a little while ago. She made the comment that the challenges facing Ngāti Whātua in 1840 were very ...

Hon MARYAN STREET ... for elected Māori representatives: “We cannot understand that. There’s no sense in it.” He went further in the New Zealand Herald to do an entire article, an opinion piece, about why Māori representation needed to be at the ...

JOHN HAYES ... the Minister of Local Government and his associate. I have to tell the Committee that if they looked at yesterday’s New Zealand Herald they would see that Mark Ball was absolutely united in his support for the place where the line is being drawn. I ...

Hon JOHN CARTER ... I will just say that the reporting of this legislation and this process as it has moved forward—in particular by the New Zealand Herald and Bernard Orsman—has, in my view, been outstanding. Bernard Orsman has done a good job, with one ...

SUE KEDGLEY ... by-law, but it will have to be approved by the Auckland Council, and it can be vetoed by the Auckland Council. The New Zealand Herald pointed out in its editorial that the commentary on this bill says it is intended to ensure that “The ...

DARIEN FENTON ... on to hold meetings in Auckland, to go and get the views of Aucklanders. You know, there have been big ads in the New Zealand Herald, and those members have been running around. There are some gaps in those meetings, I must say, but the National ...

H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... I know, having represented part of Auckland City, that it has neglected its southern suburbs. I am looking at the New Zealand Herald for 29 April where there is quote from John Key, the Prime Minister—“Super city will think small”. The ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... largest waterfall on the Auckland isthmus. I want to read to members some very lucid commentary from this morning’s New Zealand Herald: “If the Government comes out with an el cheapo, neighbourhood-ruining, overland solution for the ...

GRANT ROBERTSON ... it all under the radar—to make these cuts in public services under the radar. John Armstrong wrote about this in the New Zealand Herald. He said that National had learnt from the past. It was not going to do a big public slash-and-burn exercise in the ...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... we are in a position in our history where insolvencies are on the rise. I refer to an article that appeared in the New Zealand Herald in November last year, in which comparison was made between the 3,938 insolvencies in the 10 months to ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... the Pacific Island community. Nick Tuitasi used to work as a community constable in my electorate. He said in the New Zealand Herald that he was invited to the summit 2 days before it, obviously because the National Government had not ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... him in the minerals industry some years ago. He is an eminent business person and an eminent commentator. In today’s New Zealand Herald he compared the trans-Tasman package with our own and said “our transtasman neighbours are planning to ...

TODD McCLAY ... that. What were others saying about this legislation 2 years ago and last year during the election campaign? The New Zealand Herald stated that democracy was under attack. Those were the words of the New Zealand Herald:...

Hon JIM ANDERTON ... then was carefully tailored to fit the two major parties. I do not recall that there were screaming campaigns by the New Zealand Herald then, declaring that democracy had been gagged. I do not recall that members of the National Party ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... National members but also from the fourth estate. I have before me particularly strident editorials published by the New Zealand Herald and the Dominion Post during 2007, which stated that the Government should not have ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... the public relations sense of the word. As a number of commentators—most recently, John Armstrong in this weekend’s New Zealand Herald—have pointed out, the real agenda is becoming clearer. This Government, in the last few weeks, has ...

DAVID GARRETT ... heating. The story was not even on the front page. It is no longer remarkable, but those who doubt me can check the New Zealand Herald of Saturday, 6 December. People opposed to the views of groups such as the Sensible Sentencing Trust ...

RAYMOND HUO ... Yongjin Zhang—with whom I am proud to be a fellow alumnus—and Mr Gavin Ellis, the former editor-in-chief of the New Zealand Herald, who duly became my first employer in New Zealand. I followed Gavin’s advice of listing all the pros ...

IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY ... some of them a chance to speak up. The President of the Secondary Principals’ Association, Peter Gall, said in the New Zealand Herald yesterday: “Parents are very much in the same boat as schools, struggling to ensure the kids are in ...

Hon SIMON POWER ... protecting our children, but we can and must do more. Many of us have followed the recent series of articles in the New Zealand Herald on child abuse and the organisations that have been set up to work with victims and families. Because ...

RAHUI KATENE ... and coordination must be shown if we are to achieve the protection of children from violence. I congratulate the New Zealand Herald on its action this week in running a series of articles on child abuse and promoting the agencies and ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... over the last day? It is important for the Minister to explain why the bill is going through under urgency. Even the New Zealand Herald cannot understand why it is going through under urgency, “other than to give the perception that the ...

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... area. Did this Government have the backbone to do that? Did it have the backbone to do what was recommended by the New Zealand Herald—its rag, its cheer squad—that the bill be sent to the select committee? Business New Zealand suggested ...

Hon PETE HODGSON ... Party in Government. You see, it is going to come home to roost. For example, take a look at this morning’s New Zealand Herald and at what Brian Fallow has to say. In his first paragraph he said: “It is troubling how wide a gap ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... of that paper, so they probably missed it. But our 100-day agenda was in the Dominion Post and the New Zealand Herald, andinjust about every major daily, so Kiwis knew we had a big agenda,...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... stark relief. I think the reaction of general commentators is instructive at this point. John Armstrong from the New Zealand Herald said the winners from this package, taken on balance, are easy to identify: working singles and ...

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... the Cargill Trust and the ACT party. What is important about this story is that it will not be on page 1 of the New Zealand Herald tomorrow, in the Dominion Post,or in the Christchurch Press