One language for all?

National's race-relations policy seems to have moved from "one law for all" to "one language for all" (or maybe "speak English or die") with Wayne Mapp criticisng Statistics New Zealand's decision to offer a joint English / Maori census form in some areas as politically correct bilingualism. According to Mapp,

Statistics New Zealand has decided our country should not only have two official languages, but that we should also become bilingual... When did we have the debate on whether New Zealand should become bilingual?

While the Hansard isn't online, I'd hazard a guess at around the time Parliament passed the Maori Language Act 1987. This made Maori an official language of New Zealand, and explicitly allowed it to be used in legal proceedings. Since then, we've also seen wider use in Parliament and by government departments, and a growing (but still far from complete) tendency towards making government services more accessible to Maori speakers through greater use of the Maori language. Why? Because that's what being an "official language" means.

Statistics New Zealand's use of bilingual census forms is nothing unusual - and nothing new. As the article points out, they first started using them in 1996 - when National was in government. What has changed is that they're using them more widely - as the default in areas where Maori is widely spoken rather than being available only on request. And I don't see any problem with this. Unlike Mapp, the sight of written Maori does not fill me with fear and loathing and a sense of cultural insecurity; instead, it's an affirmation of New Zealand identity, as well as a useful practical step to ensure that everyone in New Zealand can participate in the census.

But then, I get the impression that Maori's ability to participate in the census (and by extension, government and society) is not exactly foremost in Wayne Mapp's mind. Instead, his "anti-PC" crusade is all about returning to the "good old days", when New Zealand was run by dead white males, for dead white males, and anyone who wasn't a dead white male (women, Maori, immigrants) could bugger off. Fortunately, our society has come a long way since then. Unfortunately, Wayne Mapp (and from the sound of it, his leader) doesn't seem to have realised it yet.

Mapp vs the Waitangi Tribunal

Here's another case of outright fiction about about the roles of government bodies from Wayne Mapp. On the same Morning Report interview, immediately before he made his embarassing and inconsistent comments about secularism (it applies to Maori, but not to Christians, it seems), he provided the following example of a "politically correct" body in need of eradication:

[The] Waitangi Tribunal would be another good example. There's a mixture of remaking our history with [an] advocacy role, but also trying to make recommendations on settlement of claims. Well frankly it should stick to its [billing?], which is dealing with the recomendations on claims.

But as in the case of the HRC, this simply isn't true. A quick glance at the functions of the Waitangi Tribunal shows that it has no advocacy role. Instead, its role is solely to inquire into claims or legislation submitted or referred to it. Mapp may not like the results of those inquiries - but that hardly makes them "advocacy", any more than the Court of Appeal's decision in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General (grounded solidly in the common-law doctrine of aboriginal title) was. Mapp has been a spokesperson on Treaty and constitutional issues since 1999, and has sat on both the Maori Affairs and Justice select committees. He should know this - and if he doesn't, then you have to ask why he held those positions.

I should also point out that historical claims are verified by an exhaustive process of historical research by both the crown and claimants (this is one reason the process takes so long - there aren't enough historians); it is not the Tribunal which is "remaking our history", but historians. Again, their findings may make Mapp deeply uncomfortable - but the truth sometimes is.

Neither consistent nor liberal

Why do conservatives oppose "political correctness"? Over the last few days, we've seen a lot of bluster about how "political correctness" is about minorities attempting to impose their views on the majority, an attack on freedom of expression, and a threat to secularism. But looking past that, it seems that exactly the opposite is the case. Opposition to "political correctness" is primarily about the imposition of majority opinion onto minorities, rather than the protection of a free and neutral society or a marketplace of ideas.

There was an excellent example of this in Wayne Mapp's interview with Sean Plunket on Morning Report yesterday (hat tip: Keith Ng):

Mapp: Another example: the government now puts into law Maori spiritual values, and yet we don't even have Grace at state functions. Now that's wrong. In a secular state, all beliefs - you know, spiritual beliefs, religious beliefs - should be treated equally, because that's actually what secularism means. Instead, this government puts it into law that one set of values has preference. That's where the whole thing's got completely out of control, and we need a systemtic review of all of that to fix it - [in the name of?] freedom of speech.

Plunket: I'd presume you'd also get rid of the Lord's Prayer at the start of each Parliamentary session

Mapp: No, I think that's part of our history. I mean, things are part of our history.

Plunket: OK, so whose history? Whose history is that part of?

Mapp: The Nation's history, the nation's history.

Plunket: OK, because it would seem to me that if you're going to be secular right across the board, then that's got to go to.

Mapp: Well, there was this issue in North Shore, I can tell you the majority of the public did not like it, and the councillor who promoted it did not retain his position. Part of this whole issue is respecting the views of the majority, not always pandering to minority views...

So, minority religious expression must be eradicated from public institutions, but majority public expression is acceptable - because they're the majority. Similarly, laws outlawing "hate speech" against gays are bad, but laws outlawing blasphemous libel - "hate speech" against (the Christian version of) god - are OK. You don't have to be a genius to see that this position is neither consistent nor liberal. Instead, it is an appropriation of liberal language to mask gross illiberalism and the imposition of majority opinion. And even if the majority existed somewhere outside the National party's heads, it would be wrong. As John Stuart Mill famously pointed out,

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

This doesn't just follow from one interview. The idea that "political correctness" is about the struggle between majorities and minorities is encapsulated in Wayne Mapp's definition of the term in his speech "The Problem With Political Correctness":

A person, an institution or a government is politically correct when they cease to represent the interests of the majority and become focused on the cares and concerns of minority sector groups.

According to Mapp, democratic government means that "the ideas and values of the majority are able to prevail over other choices". According to liberals, they should not, at least in certain areas. And those areas - religion, sexuality, equality, substantive freedom - overlap precisely with the battlegrounds of "political correctness".

Mapp vs the HRC

So, what exactly (other than equality) will Wayne Mapp be attempting to "eradicate"? On National Radio yesterday and this morning he indicated that the Human Rights Commission would be his first target. His reason? Purportedly, the HRC has both an advocacy and prosecution role, "combining judge and jury into one organisation". Unfortunately for Mapp, this simply isn't true.

The Human Rights Commission was established by the Human Rights Commission Act 1977 - a law passed by the Muldoon government - to advocate for human rights. Since the beginning it has also had powers to investigate and mediate complaints, and initiate proceedings in the courts and before the Human Rights Review (formerly Equal Opportunities) Tribunal. It is this latter body, rather than the HRC, which serves as "judge and jury"; the Human Rights Commissions role is limited to that of advocate, as in any civil case. Mapp is simply wrong.

But Mapp seems to have a wider problem with the HRC, describing it as "an organisation that has a set of values pretty much divorced from the main stream". I'm not sure what "mainstream" Mapp is swimming in, but last I checked, the vast majority of New Zealanders supported basic fairness and opposed gross and blatant discrimination in employment, housing and other areas. Perhaps in mapp's idealised version of the 50's it was considered acceptable to refuse to employ someone because they weren't Christian, or refuse to rent a house to someone because they were Maori, or pay a woman less than a man simply on account of her gender - but it wasn't even in Muldoon's day (that's why he set up the Commission), and it sure as hell isn't now.

Drinking age: the vote

The Herald has posted voting lists for last night's vote on the Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction: Purchase Age) Amendment Bill:

Ayes:

• Jim Anderton (Progressive Coalition, Wigram)
• Chester Borrows (National, Whanganui)
• Peter Brown (New Zealand First, List)
• John Carter (National, Northland)
• Ashraf Choudhary (Labour, List)
• Bob Clarkson (National, Tauranga)
• Johnathan Coleman (National, Northcote)
• Gordon Copeland (United Future, List)
• Clayton Cosgrove (Labour, Waimakariri)
• David Cunliffe (Labour, New Lynn)
• Brian Donnelly (New Zealand First, List)
• Harry Duynhoven (Labour, New Plymouth)
• Taito Phillip Field (Labour, Mangere)
• Christopher Finlayson (National, List)
• Te Ururoa Flavell (Maori Party, Waiariki)
• Craig Foss (National, Tukituki)
• Martin Gallagher (Labour, Hamilton West)
• Jo Goodhew (National, Aoraki)
• Sandra Goudie (National, Coromandel)
• Hone Harawira (Maori Party, Te Tai Tokerau)
• John Hayes (National, Wairarapa)
• Phillip Heatley (National, Whangarei)
• Shane Jones (Labour, List)
• John Key (National, Helensville)
• Annette King (Labour, Rongotai)
• Colin King (National, kaikoura)
• Winnie Laban (Labour, Mana)
• Nanaia Mahuta (Labour, Tainui)
• Wayne Mapp (National, North Shore)
• Ron Mark (New Zealand First, List)
• Sue Moroney (Labour, List)
• Pita Paraone (New Zealand First, List)
• Winston Peters (New Zealand First, List)
• Ross Robertson (Labour, Manukau East)
• Eric Roy (National, Invercargill)
• Tony Ryall (National, Bay of Plenty)
• Dover Samuels (Labour, List)
• Pita Sharples (Maori Party, Tamaki-Makaurau)
• Nick Smith (National, Nelson)
• Barbara Stewart (New Zealand First, List)
• Paul Swain (Labour, Rimutaka)
• Georgina te Heuheu (National, List)
• Anne Tolley (National, East Coast)
• Chris Tremain (National, Napier)
• Tariana Turia (Maori Party, Te Tai Hauauru)
• Judy Turner (United Future, List)
• Doug Woolerton (New Zealand First, List)
• Richard Worth (National, List)
• Dianne Yates (Labour, List)

Noes:

• Shane Ardern (National, Taranaki-King Country)
• Chris Auchinvole (National, List)
• Rick Barker (Labour, List)
• Tim Barnett (Labour, Christchurch Central)
• David Bennett (National, Hamilton East)
• Paula Bennett (National, List)
• David Benson-Pope (Labour, Dunedin South)
• Georgina Beyer (Labour, List)
• Jackie Blue (National, List)
• Mark Blumsky (National, List)
• Sue Bradford (Green, List)
• Don Brash (National, List)
• Gerry Brownlee (National, Ilam)
• Mark Burton (Labour, Taupo)
• Chris Carter (Labour, Te Atatu)
• David Carter (National, List)
• Steve Chadwick (Labour, Rotorua)
• Charles Chauvel (Labour, List)
• Helen Clark (Labour, Mt Albert)
• Judith Collins (National, Clevedon)
• Brian Connell (National, Rakaia)
• Michael Cullen (Labour, List)
• Lianne Dalziel (Labour, Christchurch East)
• Jacqui Dean (National, Otago)
• Peter Dunne (United Future, Ohariu-Belmont)
• Ruth Dyson (Labour, Banks Peninsula)
• Bill English (National, Clutha-Southland)
• Russell Fairbrother (Labour, List)
• Darien Fenton (Labour, List)
• Jeanette Fitzsimons (Green, List)
• Phil Goff (Labour, Mt Roskill)
• Mark Gosche (Labour, Maungakiekie)
• Tim Groser (National, List)
• Nathan Guy (National, List)
• Ann Hartley (Labour, List)
• George Hawkins (Labour, Manurewa)
• Tau Henare (National, List)
• Dave Hereora (Labour, List)
• Rodney Hide (ACT, Epsom)
• Marian Hobbs (Labour, Wellington Central)
• Pete Hodgson (Labour, Dunedein North)
• Parekura Horomia (Labour, Ikaroa-Rawhiti)
• Darren Hughes (Labour, Otaki)
• Paul Hutchison (National, Port Waikato)
• Sue Kedgley (Green, List)
• Keith Locke (Green, List)
• Moana Mackey (Labour, List)
• Steve Maharey (Labour, Palmerston North)
• Trevor Mallard (Labour, Hutt South)
• Murray McCully (National, East Coast Bays)
• Damien O'Connor (Labour, West Coast-Tasman)
• Mahara Okeroa (Labour, Te Tai Tonga)
• David Parker (Labour, List)
• Allan Peachey (National, Tamaki)
• Jill Pettis (Labour, List)
• Lynne Pillay (Labour, Waitakere)
• Simon Power (National, Rangitikei)
• Katherine Rich (National, List)
• Mita Ririnui (Labour, List)
• Heather Roy (ACT, List)
• Clem Simich (National, List)
• Lockwood Smith (National, Rodney)
• Maryan Street (Labour, List)
• Nandor Tanczos (Green, List)
• Lindsay Tisch (National, Piako)
• Judith Tizard (Labour, Auckland Central)
• Metiria Turei (Green, List)
• Nicky Wagner (National, List)
• Kate Wilkinson (National, List)
• Maurice Williamson (National, Pakuranga)
• Margaret Wilson (Labour, List)
• Pansy Wong (National, List)

No abstentions - everybody voted!

The results have also been entered into the CommoNZ archive of conscience votes here, which allows them to be searched and compared with votes on previous bills. And lining up the results side by side, its clear that both an awful lot of MPs changed their minds between the first and second reading. It's also clear that a few who opposed lowering the drinking age in the first place have accepted that there is no going back now, and that it is untenable to remove rights from people who can vote. By contrast, the number of people who voted for a lower age in 1999 and who now think they made a serious mistake is limited to two: Wayne Mapp and Nick Smith.

In terms of the party split, National and Labour were mixed (with Labour being more heavily opposed than National), ACT and the Greens were 100% against, while NZ First and the Maori Party were 100% in favour.

Abortion Supervisory Committee: the vote

Today parliament voted on appointments to the Abortion Supervisory Committee. But as usual, the Christian Taliban attempted to derail things by trying to appoint one of their own. Here's who voted for it:

Ayes

Noes

Shane Ardern (National, Taranaki-King Country) Chris Auchinvole (National, West Coast-Tasman) Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi (National, List) Jackie Blue (National, List) Chester Borrows (National, Whanganui) Simon Bridges (National, Tauranga) John Carter (National, Northland) Jacqui Dean (National, Waitaki) Bill English (National, Clutha-Southland) Chris Finlayson (National, List) Te Ururoa Flavell (Maori Party, Waiariki) Aaron Gilmore (National, List) Jo Goodhew (National, Rangitata) Sandra Goudie (National, Coromandel) Nathan Guy (National, Otaki) Phil Heatley (National, Whangarei) Tau Henare (National, List) Rahui Katene (Maori Party, Te Tai Tonga) Melissa Lee (National, List) Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga (National, Maungakiekie) Tim Macindoe (National, Hamilton West) Tod McClay (National, Rotorua) Hekia Parata (National, List) Paul Quinn (National, List) Eric Roy (National, Invercargill) Katrina Shanks (National, List) Pita Sharples (Maori party, Tamaki Makaurau) Tariana Turia (Maori Party, Te Tai Hauauru)

Rick Barker (Labour, List) Carol Beaumont (Labour, List) David Bennett (National, Hamilton East) Paula Bennett (National, Waitakere) John Boscawen (ACT, List) Gerry Brownlee (National, Ilam) Cam Calder (National, List) Hillary Calvert (ACT,List) Chris Carter (Independent, Te Atatu) David Carter (National, List) Charles Chauvel (Labour, List) David Clendon (Green,List) Jonathan Coleman (National, Northcote) David Cunliffe (Labour, New Lynn) Kelvin Davis (Labour, List) Catherine Delahunty (Green, List) Roger Douglas (ACT, List) Peter Dunne (United Future, Ohariu) Kris Faafoi (Labour, Mana) Darien Fenton (Labour, List) Craig Foss (National, Tukituki) Kennedy Graham (Green, List) Tim Groser (National, List) Kevin Hague (Green, List) Hone Harawira (Independent, Te Tai Tokerau) Pete Hodgson (Labour, Dunedin North) Parekura Horomia (Labour, Ikaroa-Rawhiti) Gareth Hughes (Green, List) Raymond Huo (Labour, List) Paul Hutchison (National, Hunua) Shane Jones (Labour, List) Steven Joyce (National, List) Sue Kedgley (Green, List) Annette king (Labour, Rongotai) Colin King (National, Kaikoura) Iain Lees-Galloway (Labour, Palmerston North) Keith Locke (Green, List) Moana Mackey (Labour, List) Trevor Mallard (Labour, Hutt South) Wayne Mapp (National, North Shore) Murray McCully (National, East Coast Bays) Stuart Nash (Labour, List) Russel Norman (Green,List) Damien O'Connor (Labour, List) David Parker (Labour, List) Lynne Pillay (Labour, List) Simon Power (National, Rangitikei) Rajen Prasad (Labour, List) Mita Ririnui (Labour, List) Grant Robertson (Labour, Wellington Central) Ross Robertson (Labour, Manukau East) Jamie-Lee Ross (National, Botany) Heather Roy (ACT, List) Tony Ryall (National, Bay of Plenty) Carmel Sepuloni (Labour, List) Lockwood Smith (National, Rodney) Nick Smith (National, Nelson) Maryan Street (Labour, List) Georgina te Heuheu (National, List) Anne Tolley (National, East Coast) Chris Tremain (National, Napier) Metiria Turei (Green, List) Phil Twyford (Labour, List) Nicky wagner (National, List) Kate Wilkinson (National, List) Maurice Williamson (National, Pakuranga) Michael Woodhouse (National, List)

Amy Adams abstained. Allen Peachey, Lindsey Tisch and Jonathan Young are marked as voting both ways. Around 20 MPs, including John Key, Phil Goff, Rodney Hide and Jim Anderton, were not present for the vote.

Note the trend. This was a National - Maori Party amendment, the former driven by social conservatism, the latter by Turia's weird concerns about racial numbers (she thinks abortion is bad because it leads to fewer Maori children; people must be forced to breed for the greatness of the volk!) Meanwhile, the Greens showed themselves to be consistently liberal, and ACT again showed itself to be more liberal than National.

Misplaced confidence

Wayne Mapp's Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill has passed its first reading after three Maori Party MPs voted for it. I'm appalled. This bill is an attack on the vulnerable; it will allow employers to fire workers for any reason whatsoever (or no reason at all) within 90 days of hiring them, with no recourse under existing dispute resolution procedures. It would allow people to be fired for joining a union or even talking to one. It would prevent workers from suing for arrears if they are not paid. And given that WINZ imposes a 13-week standdown on anyone fired, it will mean workers are effectively left with no rights whatsoever for the first part of their employment; it will be accept whatever is offered (and live in fear of having it arbitrarily withdrawn if your Masteremployer takes a dislike to you or is in a bad mood) or face starvation and homelessness.

This is law for the rich, and its victims will be those on the bottom of the heap - a group which includes a lot of Maori. I cannot understand why then why the Maori Party, who claim to represent Maori interests, would vote for it.

Last month the Maori Party's support for Sue Bradford's Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill gave me some confidence that the Maori Party could be relied upon to support basic left-wing causes like employment rights for the weakest and most vulnerable. Unfortunately, it seems that that confidence was misplaced.

Flipping them one by one

Pita Sharples has announced that he wll oppose Wayne Mapp's Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill. The bill won its first reading 63 - 58. Sharples' about-face will cut that majority, but not by enough for the bill to fail; for that to happen the rest of his Maori Party colleagues (or New Zealand First) would have to vote against it as well.

Sharples changed his mind because of pressure from the flax-roots within his electorate. Which shows us the way forward on this: if you are on the Maori Roll in Te Tai Hauauru or Waiariki and you oppose the bill, either write to your MP at Parliament (the postage is free), or better yet, schedule an appointment at their electorate office. The Maori Party's MPs will at least listen to their constituents, and if people speak up, they can hopefully be flipped one by one so that Mapp's bill will fail.

Manukau prostitution v2.0: The vote

So, who voted for the Manukau City Council (Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places) Bill? Thanks to a source in Parliament, here are the details:

Ayes

Noes

Amy Adams (National, Selwyn) Shane Ardern (National, Taranaki-King Country) Chris Auchinvole (National, Est Coast-Tasman) Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi (National, List) David Bennett (National, Hamilton East) Paula Bennett (National, Waitakere) Jackie Blue (National, List) Chester Borrows (National, Whanganui) John Boscawen (ACT, List) Simon Bridges (National, Tauranga) Gerry Brownlee (National, Ilam) Cam Calder (National, List) David Carter (National, List) John Carter (National, Northland) Ashraf Choudhary (Labour, List) David Clendon (Green, List) Jonathan Coleman (National, Northcote) Judith Collins (National, Papakura) Clayton Cosgrove (Labour, Waimakariri) Kelvin Davis (Labour, List) Jacqui Dean (National, Waitaki) Roger Douglas (ACT, List) Bill English (National, Clutha-Southland) Chris Finlayson (National, List) Craig Foss (National, Tukituki) David Garrett (ACT, List) Aaron Gilmore (National, List) Phil Goff (Labour, Mt Roskill) Jo Goodhew (National, Rangitata) Sandra Goudie (National, Coromandel) Kennedy Graham (Green, List) Tim Groser (National, List) Nathan Guy (National, Otaki) George Hawkins (Labour, Manurewa) John Hayes (National, Wairarapa) Phil Heatley (National, Whangarei) Tau Henare (National, List) Rodney Hide (ACT, List) Pete Hodgson (Labour, Dunedin North) Raymond Huo (Labour, List) Paul Hutchison (National, Hunua) Shane Jones (Labour, List) Steven Joyce (National, List) Nikki Kaye (National, Auckland Central) John Key (National, Helensville) Colin King (National, kaikoura) Melissa Lee (National, List) Pesata Sam Lotu-Iiga (National, Maungakiekie) Tim Macindoe (National, Hamilton West) Nanaia Mahuta (Labour, Hauraki-Waikato) Wayne Mapp (National, North Shore) Todd McClay (National, Rotorua) Murray McCully (National, East Coast Bays) Stuart Nash (Labour, List) Damien O’Connor (Labour, List) Hekia Parata (National, List) David Parker (Labour, List) Allan Peachey (National, Tamaki) Simon Power (National, Rangitikei) Rajen Prasad (Labour, List) Paul Quinn (National, List) Mita Ririnui (Labour, List) H V Ross Robertson (Labour, Manukau East) Eric Roy (National, Invercargill) Heather Roy (ACT, List) Tony Ryall (National, Bay of Plenty) Katrina Shanks (National, List) Su'a William Sio (Labour, Mangere) Lockwood Smith (National, Rodney) Nick Smith (National, Nelson) Georgina Te HeuHeu (National, List) Lindsay Tisch (National, Waikato) Anne Tolley (National, East Coast) Chris Tremain (National, Napier) Phil Twyford (Labour, List) Louise Upston (National, Taupo) Nicky Wagner (National, List) Kate Wilkinson (National, List) Maurice Williamson (National, Pakuranga) Pansy Wong (National, Botony) Michael Woodhouse (National, List) Jonathan Young (National, New Plymouth)

Jacinda Ardern (Labour, List) Rick Barker (Labour, List) Carol Beaumont (Labour, List) Brendon Burns (Labour, Christchurch Central) Steve Chadwick (Labour, List) Charles Chauvel (Labour, List) David Cunliffe (Labour, New Lynn) Clare Curran (Labour, Dunedin South) Lianne Dalziel (Labour, Christchurch East) Catherine Delahunty (Green, List) Ruth Dyson (Labour, Port Hills) Darien Fenton (Labour, List) Te Ururoa Flavell Kevin Hague (Green, List) Hone Harawira (Maori Party, Te Tai Tokerau) Chris Hipkins (Labour, Rimutuka) Parakura Horomia (Labour, Ikaroa-Rawhiti) Darren Hughes (Labour, List) Gareth Hughes (Green, List) Rahui Katene (Maori Party, Te Tai Tonga) Sue Kedgley (Green, List) Annette King (Labour, Rongotai) Luamanuvao Winnie Laban (Labour, Mana) Iain Lees-Galloway (Labour, Palmerston North) Keith Locke (Green, List) Moana Mackey (Labour, List) Trevor Mallard (Labour, Hutt South) Sue Moroney (Labour, List) Lynne Pillay (Labour, List) Grant Robertson (Labour, Wellington Central) Carmel Sepuloni (Labour, List) Pita Sharlples (Maori Party, Tamaki-Makauru) David Shearer (Labour, Mt Albert) Maryan Street (Labour, List) Metiria Turei (Green, List) Tariana Turia (Maori Party, Te Tai Hauauru)

No vote was recorded for Jim Anderton, Chris Carter, Peter Dunne and Russel Norman.

As for patterns, the generational divide among Labour is again very apparent, with the majority of its new, young intake opposing the bill. The Greens split their vote, with newer MPs David Clendon and Kennedy Graham voting in favour; its a worrying sign that the party is backing away from social liberalism, and we'll have to keep an eye on them. National, dominated by social conservatives, bloc-voted for the bill. And ACT once again showed that the only freedom it actually cares about is the freedom of the rich not to pay taxes, with unanimous support (even from Hide and Roy, who had opposed this measure last time round).

Some of those voting in favour may have done so because its a local bill, and manukau City deserves a hearing for its money. So its not lost yet. But such a large first-reading majority is a very worrying sign. And as we've seen with the Whanganui gang-patch bill, these sorts of local measures end up being district-wide bans, and create pressure for similar legislation in other areas.

Manukau prostitution: the vote

Tim Barnett's office was kind enough to email me scans of the tally sheets for the vote on the Manukau City Council (Control of Street Prostitution) Bill, so here are the details:

Ayes

• Jim Anderton (Progressive Coalition, Wigram)
• Chris Auchinvole (National, List)
• David Bennett (National, Hamilton East)
• Jackie Blue (National, List)
• Chester Borrows (National, Whanganui)
• Peter Brown (New Zealand First, List)
• Gerry Brownlee (National, Ilam)
• David Carter (National, List)
• John Carter (National, Northland)
• Bob Clarkson (National, Tauranga)
• Johnathan Coleman (National, Northcote)
• Judith Collins (National, Clevedon)
• Gordon Copeland (United Future, List)
• Jacqui Dean (National, Otago)
• Brian Donnelly (New Zealand First, List)
• Peter Dunne (United Future, Ohariu-Belmont)
• Bill English (National, Clutha-Southland)
• Taito Phillip Field (Labour, Mangere)
• Craig Foss (National, Tukituki)
• Sandra Goudie (National, Coromandel)
• Tim Groser (National, List)
• Nathan Guy (National, List)
• George Hawkins (Labour, Manurewa)
• Phillip Heatley (National, Whangarei)
• Paul Hutchison (National, Port Waikato)
• John Key (National, Helensville)
• Colin King (National, kaikoura)
• Wayne Mapp (National, North Shore)
• Ron Mark (New Zealand First, List)
• Pita Paraone (New Zealand First, List)
• Allan Peachey (National, Tamaki)
• Winston Peters (New Zealand First, List)
• Ross Robertson (Labour, Manukau East)
• Eric Roy (National, Invercargill)
• Tony Ryall (National, Bay of Plenty)
• Nick Smith (National, Nelson)
• Barbara Stewart (New Zealand First, List)
• Paul Swain (Labour, Rimutaka)
• Lindsay Tisch (National, Piako)
• Anne Tolley (National, East Coast)
• Chris Tremain (National, Napier)
• Judy Turner (United Future, List)
• Nicky Wagner (National, List)
• Kate Wilkinson (National, List)
• Maurice Williamson (National, Pakuranga)
• Doug Woolerton (New Zealand First, List)

Noes

• Rick Barker (Labour, List)
• Tim Barnett (Labour, Christchurch Central)
• Paula Bennett (National, List)
• David Benson-Pope (Labour, Dunedin South)
• Georgina Beyer (Labour, List)
• Mark Blumsky (National, List)
• Sue Bradford (Green, List)
• Don Brash (National, List)
• Mark Burton (Labour, Taupo)
• Chris Carter (Labour, Te Atatu)
• Steve Chadwick (Labour, Rotorua)
• Charles Chauvel (Labour, List)
• Ashraf Choudhary (Labour, List)
• Helen Clark (Labour, Mt Albert)
• Brian Connell (National, Rakaia)
• Clayton Cosgrove (Labour, Waimakariri)
• Michael Cullen (Labour, List)
• David Cunliffe (Labour, New Lynn)
• Lianne Dalziel (Labour, Christchurch East)
• Harry Duynhoven (Labour, New Plymouth)
• Ruth Dyson (Labour, Banks Peninsula)
• Russell Fairbrother (Labour, List)
• Darien Fenton (Labour, List)
• Christopher Finlayson (National, List)
• Jeanette Fitzsimons (Green, List)
• Te Ururoa Flavell (Maori Party, Waiariki)
• Martin Gallagher (Labour, Hamilton West)
• Phil Goff (Labour, Mt Roskill)
• Jo Goodhew (National, Aoraki)
• Mark Gosche (Labour, Maungakiekie)
• Hone Harawira (Maori Party, Te Tai Tokerau)
• Ann Hartley (Labour, List)
• John Hayes (National, Wairarapa)
• Tau Henare (National, List)
• Dave Hereora (Labour, List)
• Rodney Hide (ACT, Epsom)
• Marian Hobbs (Labour, Wellington Central)
• Pete Hodgson (Labour, Dunedein North)
• Parekura Horomia (Labour, Ikaroa-Rawhiti)
• Darren Hughes (Labour, Otaki)
• Shane Jones (Labour, List)
• Sue Kedgley (Green, List)
• Annette King (Labour, Rongotai)
• Winnie Laban (Labour, Mana)
• Keith Locke (Green, List)
• Moana Mackey (Labour, List)
• Steve Maharey (Labour, Palmerston North)
• Nanaia Mahuta (Labour, Tainui)
• Trevor Mallard (Labour, Hutt South)
• Murray McCully (National, East Coast Bays)
• Sue Moroney (Labour, List)
• Damien O'Connor (Labour, West Coast-Tasman)
• Mahara Okeroa (Labour, Te Tai Tonga)
• David Parker (Labour, List)
• Jill Pettis (Labour, List)
• Lynne Pillay (Labour, Waitakere)
• Simon Power (National, Rangitikei)
• Katherine Rich (National, List)
• Mita Ririnui (Labour, List)
• Heather Roy (ACT, List)
• Dover Samuels (Labour, List)
• Pita Sharples (Maori Party, Tamaki-Makaurau)
• Clem Simich (National, List)
• Lockwood Smith (National, Rodney)
• Nandor Tanczos (Green, List)
• Georgina te Heuheu (National, List)
• Judith Tizard (Labour, Auckland Central)
• Metiria Turei (Green, List)
• Tariana Turia (Maori Party, Te Tai Hauauru)
• Margaret Wilson (Labour, List)
• Pansy Wong (National, List)
• Richard Worth (National, List)
• Dianne Yates (Labour, List)

No vote is recorded for Shane Ardern or Maryan Street.

The results can also be viewed at the CommoNZ archive of conscience votes here (which allows them to be searched and compared with votes on previous bills).

So, Labour's usual suspects (Hawkins, Field, Swain and Robertson) supported it, while the rest opposed. Meanwhile, National turned out to have rather more liberals than expected (and strangely, Don Brash seems to have recovered his conscience, while John Key is now voting with the Brethren). The big surprises are that Jim Anderton supported it (showing that on social issues, the "progressives" aren't), while ACT acted like an actual liberal party for once.

And as a final note, I am constantly surprised at how helpful our MPs and Parliamentary staff are if you ask them nicely, and I wouldn't be able to do this sort of work without them.

Not Left

Ever since the Maori Party was formed, people on the left have been suspicious of where it stood. Are they generally left, or generally right? Results have so far been mixed - support for an increased minimum wage and the abolition of youth rates, votes both for and against Wayne Mapp's probationary employment bill - but I think Pita Sharples' support for Work for Dole provides a definitive answer. Over on Public Address, Tze Ming goes over the evidence showing that Work for Dole doesn't work - it actually decreases employment outcomes over the first year, and does nothing thereafter. But the purpose of Work for Dole was always ideological - to ensure that those shiftless layabouts on the unemployment benefit were properly punished for their misfortune in being victims of government-set monetary policy, not to help them find real work or a way out of poverty. Backing it marks the Maori Party as being definitively on the right and wanting to punish the poor, rather than help them.

Fortunately, being in Parliament also means being accountable to the electorate. I can't imagine this policy being palatable to the Maori Party's voters (too many of whom will remember unemployment in the 80's and 90's), and so hopefully they'll be forced to change their minds. Otherwise, they've just handed Labour a perfect stick to beat them with in the next election campaign.

Another crony appointment

Back in April, Pita Sharples and Bill English jointly appointer former National MP Georgina te Heuheu to the Board of Māori Television, with the explicit expectation that she would become chair. This seemed like a fairly blatant case of cronyism, so I submitted the usual OIA request seeking background details of the appointment.

After a lengthy delay, I received the response today. Sadly, in this case, there isn't much of a paper trail - no briefing to the Minister of the need to make an appointment to fill an upcoming vacancy, and no paper requesting the Minister to choose between several nominated and interviewed candidates. The only formal documentation is a paper to the Cabinet Appointments and Honours Committee [PDF], seeking approval for te Heuheu's nomination, and a subsequent appointment letter. The Minister does give an outline of the process in their response letter [PDF], but it is deeply unsatisfactory:

In response to your request, I can advise you that this position was not advertised. While there is scope for it to happen, state sector board positions are not usually publicly advertised. various state sector agencies manage registers of qualified candidates who are interested in being nominated for boards, and departments usually seek nominations from these registers...

In line with the usual appointment process as outlined above, I requested a list of candidates from Te Puni Kokiri for consideration for this position. Candidates for this position were nominated from the registers held by the treasury's Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit, the Ministry of Women's Affairs, and Te Puni Kokiri. Te Puni Kokiri provided a list of five nominees. the successful candidate was nominated for the position by me and the Minister of Finance, as jointly responsible Ministers for the Maori Television Service.

From this, and the lack of supporting documentation, it appears the Ministers simply imposed their shoulder-tapped candidate on the Maori Television Service, without even considering those other candidates. And again, that's simply not how things are supposed to happen. Appointments should be made on merit, not on political connections.

Quite apart from pissing on our reputation for clean government, Sharples and English have done te Heuheu a disservice. She's not Wayne Mapp, and its not inconceivable that she would have won a competitive appointments process. By not running one, English and Sharples have forever tainted her as a crony, who gained her position by favourtism rather than merit. And she deserves better than that.

Who's buying our cabinet ministers?

A couple of weeks ago, the Chief Electoral Office released the details of electorate candidate donation and expense returns. Unfortunately, they only released them in summary form [XLS], but some of the amounts some cabinet ministers received were sufficiently large that I thought they were worth OIAing. Today, I got a fat packet of returns in the mail. Most of it is boring - candidates funding their own campaigns, $1,000 here, $1,000 there - but a few bits caught my immediate attention:

• Maori Party co-leader - and now Minister of Maori Affairs and Associate Minister of Corrections and Education - received a total of $35,000. $20,000 of this came from Fletcher Construction, who would benefit greatly from any future prison construction. $10,000 came from Pie Melon Bay Farms, which is wholly owned by Bruce Plested (who in turn founded Mainfreight, but is also a trustee of Alan Duff's "Books in Homes" program). $5,000 came from the Waiuku Trust of 11 Stanmore Road, Grey Lynn. No information was given on the donors to that trust.
• Allan Peachey isn't a cabinet minister, but received a massive $46,250 - including $10,000 from photocopier company Ricoh, $10,000 from Corporate Cabs, $10,000 from gym membership company Adfit, and $10,000 from loyalty scheme promoter Incentive Solutions. I guess people must really like him.
• Wayne Mapp declared donations down to $300, well in excess of disclosure requirements. Way to go Wayne!
• Rodney Hide received $10,119.70 - all of it from ACT New Zealand. Many candidates receive donations from their local party, but this seems to be a conscious effort to exploit the higher disclosure threshold for party donations to launder donations and avoid disclosure.
• Nick Smith - now Minister for the Environment and Climate Change - was given $5,000 by the Road Transport Forum. That's a pretty significant conflict of interest, neh?

I shouldn't have had to OIA this information. The full returns should be online - and online in a fully searchable form. The Chief Electoral Office has refused to do this, citing privacy concerns around the private addresses of financial agents. But that information can be easily removed (and isn't required from next election anyway). If the government isn't willing to do this, then there's a perfect opportunity for someone to do it privately. Whobuysthem.org.nz, anyone?

Making the right noises

John Key certainly isn't beating around the bush, is he? At his first press conference as leader, he stated loudly and clearly

"I believe in a tolerant and inclusive New Zealand, I believe in a society which is there for the benefit of all New Zealanders, and I think that the future of New Zealand must be a New Zealand that everyone feels they have a stake in."

It's a welcome signal that National will reject the divisive policies of race-baiting and Maori-bashing engaged in under Brash. And at the same time, I think we should wait and see whether its a real rejection, or whether they'll simply move to slightly more subtle dog-whistling. I guess it depends on whether Wayne Mapp's "portfolio" of "Political Correctness Eradication" is disestablished in the post-changeover reshuffle.

Meanwhile, Bill English - who back in 2002 was engaging in a bit of race-baiting and Maori bashing of his own with his "one standard of citizenship for all" campaign - is echoing the new party line [video]:

"Modern New Zealand is multicultural. There's a whole range of people with a whole range of beliefs and cultures. And we're quite comfortable with that."

I wonder if anyone has told Bob Clarkson yet?

Victory on probationary employment

The Maori Party have decided to oppose Wayne Mapp's Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill when it comes back before the House next month, meaning that the bill will now fail. This is great news. The bill would have acted as a charter for bad employers to abuse and exploit their workers, effectively reducing them to peonage. I am very glad that it will fail, and very glad that the Maori Party has decided to help bury it.

Learning from the French

The EPMU seem to have learned from the French, and have put Wayne Mapp "on notice" that they will begin a public campaign of protests in 90 days unless he withdraws his Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill. Needless to say, I think this is a great idea. Mapp is of course outraged, and refuses to be "held to ransom by threats" - but its not really him that the protest is aimed at. The bill's support is tenuous - it only passed its first reading because of the support of the Maori Party - and a strong show of public support is exactly what is needed to persuade them to change their vote.

It is also interesting that it is the EPMU which is leading on this. Traditionally, they've favoured cooperation (some would say "collaboration") over confrontation. But it seems the recent French victory over the CPE has reminded them of the potential power of protest, and the tight political environment of its necessity. The government's lack of a legislative majority means that current employment law (which recognises the inherant imbalance of power between employer and employee) is under threat; if we want it to stay, then we have to speak up to defend it.

More thoughts on the opposition reshuffle

Wayne Mapp's joke portfolio aside (I guess they had to give him something to not do, after all), there's a few other things I noticed about today's opposition reshuffle. The first is that Georgina te Heuheu gets to sit at the back of the bus with Pansy Wong again. Isn't it time the two of them took a few lessons from Rosa Parks? Secondly, they seem to have forgotten someone: while they now have liaisons to Pacific Peoples, women, youth, and Asian New Zealanders, they don't have a liaison to Maori. It's a rather telling absence, and signals exactly the priority they put on consulting with or listening to Maori: none at all.

Thirdly, there's the justification for Nick Smith's appointment as energy spokesman:

With a PhD in engineering, Dr Smith is the most qualified MP in Parliament to take oversight of this area.

Well, except for the Greens' Jeanette Fitzsimons, who was lecturing and publishing in this area when Nick Smith was still in high school...

The Vote

According to the Herald, the vote was:

Ayes: 65

• Jim Anderton (Prog C, Wigram)
• Rick Barker (Lab, Tukituki)
• Tim Barnett (Lab, Christchurch Central)
• David Benson-Pope (Lab, Dunedin South)
• Georgina Beyer (Lab, Wairarapa)
• Sue Bradford (Greens, list)
• Mark Burton (Lab, Taupo)
• Chris Carter (Lab, list)
• Steve Chadwick (Lab, Rotorua)
• Ashraf Choudhary (Lab, list)
• Helen Clark (Lab, Mt Albert)
• Michael Cullen (Lab, list)
• David Cunliffe (Lab, New Lynn)
• Lianne Dalziel (Lab, Christchurch East)
• Rod Donald (Greens, list)
• Brian Donnelly (NZ First, list)
• Helen Duncan (Labour, list)
• Ruth Dyson (Lab, Banks Peninsula)
• Ian Ewen-Street (Greens, list)
• Russell Fairbrother (Lab, Napier)
• Jeanette Fitzsimons (Greens, list)
• Martin Gallagher (Lab, Hamilton West)
• Phil Goff (Lab, Mt Roskill)
• Mark Gosche (Lab, Maungakiekie)
• Ann Hartley (Lab, Northcote)
• George Hawkins (Lab, Manurewa)
• Dave Hereora (Lab, list)
• Rodney Hide (ACT, list)
• Marian Hobbs (Lab, Wellington Central)
• Pete Hodgson (Lab, Dunedin North)
• Parekura Horomia (Lab, Ikaroa-Rawhiti)
• Darren Hughes (Lab, Otaki)
• Jonathan Hunt (Lab, list)
• Sue Kedgley (Greens, list)
• Annette King (Lab, Rongotai)
• Winnie Laban (Lab, Mana)
• Keith Locke (Greens, list)
• Janet Mackey (Lab, East Coast)
• Moana Mackey (Lab, list)
• Steve Maharey (Lab, Palmerston North)
• Nanaia Mahuta (Lab, Tainui)
• Trevor Mallard (Lab, Hutt South)
• Ron Mark (NZ First, list)
• Mahara Okeroa (Lab, Te Tai Tonga)
• David Parker (Lab, Otago)
• Mark Peck (Lab, Invercargill)
• Jill Pettis (Lab, Whanganui)
• Lynne Pillay (Lab, Waitakere)
• Richard Prebble (ACT, list)
• Katherine Rich (Nat, list)
• Mita Ririnui (Lab, Waiariki)
• Matt Robson (Prog C, list)
• Heather Roy (ACT, list)
• Dover Samuels (Lab, Te Tai Tokerau)
• Ken Shirley (ACT, list)
• Clem Simich (Nat, Tamaki)
• Jim Sutton (Lab, Aoraki)
• Paul Swain (Lab, Rimutaka)
• Nandor Tanczos (Greens, list)
• Judith Tizard (Lab, Auckland Central)
• Metiria Turei (Greens, list)
• Mike Ward (Greens, list)
• Margaret Wilson (Lab, list)
• Pansy Wong (Nat, list)
• Dianne Yates (Lab, list)

Noes: 55

• Paul Adams (UF, list)
• Marc Alexander (UF, list)
• Shane Ardern (Nat, Taranaki-King Country)
• Larry Baldock (United Future, list)
• Don Brash (Nat, list)
• Peter Brown (NZ First, list)
• Gerry Brownlee (Nat, Ilam)
• David Carter (Nat, list)
• John Carter (Nat, Northland)
• Brent Catchpole (NZ First, list)
• Deborah Coddington (ACT, list)
• Judith Collins (Nat, Clevedon)
• Brian Connell (Nat, Rakaia)
• Gordon Copeland (UF, list)
• Clayton Cosgrove (Lab, Waimakariri)
• Peter Dunne (UF, Ohariu-Belmont)
• Harry Duynhoven (Lab, New Plymouth)
• Gerrard Eckhoff (ACT, list)
• Bill English (Nat, Clutha-Southland)
• Taito Phillip Field (Lab, Mangere)
• Stephen Franks (ACT, list)
• Sandra Goudie (Nat, Coromandel)
• Bill Gudgeon (NZ First, list)
• Phil Heatley (Nat, Whangarei)
• Paul Hutchison (Nat, Port Waikato)
• Dail Jones (NZ First, list)
• John Key (Nat, Helensville)
• Wayne Mapp (Nat, North Shore)
• Murray McCully (Nat, Albany)
• Craig McNair (NZ First, list)
• Muriel Newman (ACT, list)
• Damien O'Connor (Lab, West Coast-Tasman)
• Bernie Ogilvy (UF, list)
• Pita Paraone (NZ First, list)
• Edwin Perry (NZ First, list)
• Jim Peters (NZ First, list)
• Winston Peters (NZ First, Tauranga)
• Simon Power (Nat, Rangitikei)
• Ross Robertson (Lab, Manukau East)
• Tony Ryall (Nat, Bay of Plenty)
• Lynda Scott (Nat, Kaikoura)
• Lockwood Smith (Nat, Rodney)
• Murray Smith (UF, list)
• Nick Smith (Nat, Nelson)
• Roger Sowry (Nat, list)
• Barbara Stewart (NZ First, list)
• John Tamihere (Lab, Tamaki Makarau)
• Georgina te Heuheu (Nat, list)
• Lindsay Tisch (Nat, Piako)
• Tariana Turia (Te Tai Hauauru)
• Judy Turner (UF, list)
• Kenneth Wang (ACT, list)
• Maurice Williamson (Nat, Pakuranga)
• Doug Woolerton (NZ First, list)
• Richard Worth (Nat, Epsom)

So ACT showed once again that it is not really a liberal party, while National turns out to be less liberal than NZFirst. I guess there's a reason Don Brash doesn't know of any queer National MPs...

David Benson-Pope's and Nandor Tanczos' speeches are also online. Benson-Pope recognises the centrality of relationships to people's lives and self-image, which makes discrimination in this area an extremely heavy burden. He also makes a forceful case for equality:

Saying no to civil unions is to say some relationships are "first class", but other loving, committed, stable relationships are for some inexplicable reason, of a lesser value.

Saying no to civil unions is to say some people deserve only the seats in the back of the bus.

Like Benson-Pope, I find this an intolerable proposition. There is no place in New Zealand for second-class citizenship.

Nandor likewise makes a strong case for equality, pluralism and state neutrality, but more interesting argues that opposition to the bill is driven in part by fear of losing control. The Dead White Males who currently run our society

see their dominance of our social and political forms slipping away... The increasing plurality of our society is scary for those who have always paddled in the mainstream. They have not yet understood - there no longer is a mainstream. We have become a braided river.

This fear also underlies opposition to Maori claims to the foreshore and seabed, to the Treaty process, to Immigration, and all the petty complaints about the increasing visibility and influence of non-white, non-males in our society. All of these issues are simply stalking horses for generational change - for a struggle of the young, with their vision of a pluralistic, independent and progressive New Zealand, and the old, too many of whom look back nostalgiacly to the "good old days" of the fifties, when Pakeha were unquestionably dominant and secure in their identity as British, and women and Maori knew their place. The problem for the old is that they are dying; History (or rather demographics) is on our side, and we will bury them - literally, in most cases.

Labour's betrayal

On Friday the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee reported back [PDF] on Sue Bradford's Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill. As passed at first reading, the bill would have done exactly what its name suggests - abolish age discrimination in employment and ensure equal pay for equal work by abolishing youth rates. However, the committee had other ideas, and have totally rewritten it so that lower rates may be retained for "new entrants", which they recommend as being those who have worked for less than 200 hours. Given the highly casual nature of youth employment, this is likely to be five months for most of those currently earning youth rates, and possibly as long as nine months for some. So the Maori Party aren't entirely wrong in referring to it as a resurrection of Wayne Mapp's probationary employment bill.

The bill being gutted is bad enough, but what really stinks is that it was done by Labour. "The worker's party", supposedly committed to principles of equality and social justice, is backing the bosses and supporting the continued exploitation of the young. I guess now we know whose side they're really on.

Finally, it's clear from the Greens' minority view that these changes were made despite Bradford's objections, and it will be interesting to see what she does next: withdraw the bill, as she threatened to do for section 59, or delay it in the hope that Labour might remember their principles or be forced to change their minds.

Still dead. Still white. Still male.

When National released its party list in the 2005 election, I criticised it for being overwhelmingly dead, white, and male. The same could be said of their 2008 list. While they have more Maori, Pasifika and "Asian" candidates than last time, they are generally low-ranked, and still significantly under-represented compared to the general population. Meanwhile only 17 women out of 73 candidates make it clear that National still does not take women seriously. Once again, this list does not look like New Zealand; instead it shows that National is still the same rich boys' club it always has been.

As with last election, I've done a table showing the top 61 candidates relative placements with last time. It's interesting to see how some MPs have risen and fallen, and while some (e.g. Chris Finlayson) clearly reflects performance in the House, you really have to wonder what Nicky Wagner and Jo Goodhew did to piss off the party hierarchy. Back the wrong candidate for leader, perhaps?

2008 Rank	Name	2005 Rank	Difference
1	John Key	7	+6
2	Hon Bill English	4	+2
3	Gerry Brownlee	2	-1
4	Simon Power	3	-1
5	Hon Dr Nick Smith	5	0
6	Hon Tony Ryall	6	0
7	Judith Collins	12	+5
8	Hon Maurice Williamson	17	+9
9	David Carter	8	-1
10	Anne Tolley	43	+33
11	Hon Murray McCully	11	0
12	Dr Hon Lockwood Smith	9	-3
13	Dr Wayne Mapp	14	+1
14	Chris Finlayson	27	+13
15	Tim Groser	13	-2
16	Steven Joyce	--	--
17	Hon Georgina Te Heuheu	19	+2
18	Nathan Guy	39	+21
19	Lindsay Tisch	24	+5
20	Pansy Wong	20	0
21	John Carter	15	-6
22	Phil Heatley	22	0
23	Dr Paul Hutchison	23	0
24	Shane Ardern	21	-4
25	Dr Richard Worth	16	-9
26	Hon Tau Henare	29	+3
27	Sandra Goudie	26	-1
28	Eric Roy	37	+9
29	Dr Jonathan Coleman	35	+6
30	Kate Wilkinson	38	+8
31	Chris Tremain	52	+21
32	Chester Burrows	33	+1
33	Craig Foss	44	+11
34	Allan Peachey	30	-4
35	Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga	--	--
36	Hekia Parata	--	--
37	Melissa Lee	--	--
38	Kanwal Bakshi	--	--
39	Jo Goodhew	31	-8
40	Jacqui Dean	40	0
41	Paula Bennett	45	+4
42	Chris Auchinvole	34	-6
43	Nicky Wagner	28	-15
44	David Bennett	32	-12
45	Dr Jackie Blue	41	-4
46	Katrina Shanks	46	0
47	Colin King	42	-5
48	Paul Quinn	--	--
49	Michael Woodhouse	--	--
50	John Hayes	50	0
51	Simon Bridges	--	--
52	Amy Adams	--	--
53	Louise Upston	--	--
54	Todd McClay	--	--
55	Tim Macindoe	62	+7
56	Aaron Gilmore	--	--
57	Nikki Kaye	--	--
58	Dr Cam Calder	--	--
59	Dr Conway Powell	55	-4
60	Stephen Franks	--	--
61	Marc Alexander	--	--

Those last two names ought to provide an excellent reason for people not to vote National.

DPF has an analysis of who is likely to be elected (based on current polling) here.