<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>16:11 mister speaker yeah order order mister speaker that was an absolutely despicable address to this house by the member for fendalton <,> and when he was making those charges i was strongly reminded of the unctuous claims from the leader of the opposition that his party stands for the decent society <,> a society that respects the rule of law and what they do sir is they wander into this house not just today but on previous occasions cast a whole series of charges about idly and then expect sir that they should be taken seriously now sir lets listen to what that member had to <{><[>say <[>order there was no substance in any of the <&>17:00 charges <,> that he made <.>i i think <.>tha <.>th that you know there's er all together too much interjection from this corner here i mean the <.>m the <.>m the minister <,> order no no there's actually members out of their seats too <,> and <.>sh order <,> members out of their seats and shouting at the top of their voices it's not seemly behaviour <.>me members should come to order mister peter dunne mister speaker <,> the member for fendalton <,> made a series of charges all very carefully prefaced with phrases like <,> appear to be fraudulent <,> allegedly <,> under investigation <,> under suspicion mister speaker he put no proof <,> before this house <,> of any of the charges that he's made and i want to challenge him <,> to make exactly the same speech <,> with ALL of the same words <,> outside this chamber or to present the evidence that he has <,> to the relevant authorities <,> for <&>18:00 their investigation because mister speaker if the member for fendalton <,> and his party expect to be taken seriously as a party that is committed to law and order as a party <,> that is committed to the decent society that the leader of the opposition rants about then sir they will put up the proof they will NOT do the sort of thing that THAT member makes a habit of doing mister speaker this house ought to be reminded <,> that it's only a couple of years ago <,> that the member for fendalton was on another witch hunt <,> this time it was the department of trade and industry following the fact that a couple of members of the staff at that time <,> had been charged with various offences HE launched into a tirade that the whole department was corrupt that the whole import licensing system was being ripped off by departmental officials and day after day in this house sir we had questions of unsubstantiated allegations from that member <,> and the proof was never provided <&>19:00 because there was no proof now mister speaker that is the national party the party of the DEcent society the party that's committed to law and order and the reality is sir that they have NO credibility in that area and their desperation this afternoon demonstrates that rather than get involved in a policy debate all the national party is interested in is FIring around smears and charges now mister speaker i want to put this proposition to the national party if there is any substance in the allegation <,> that this government <,> has corruption <,> in the immigration system <,> why is it that the one official brought to charge today is a prominent member of the governing party <,> if this party had anything to cover up <,> he would've been the last person <,> to be brought to charge <,> we have nothing to hide sir that is why we follow the rule of law and i suggest the national party start to do likewise <&>20:01