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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side one</&>
  <&>13:00</&>
  

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      look let's face up to it

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      the public relations campaign for the prime minister has failed

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      did you see the last desperate attempt in this morning's herald

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      there he was like some kind of downmarket rock and roll star
      signing some poor kids er cast giving his autograph to some poor
      kid on their cast

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      look all the trumpet playing in the world all the doublebreasted
      dark suits as worn by the member for tauranga none of these
      things are going to save the prime minister

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      and i have to say that even the member for mangere wouldn't have
      resorted to this sort of tragically pretentious and artificial
      image making

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      i have to say that the government if they're sensible will
      realise the dilemma <?>a</?> they're in

  <WSC#DGU017:0040:PE>
      they'll drop their captain and they'll look to salvation to the
      member for <&>14:00</&> christchurch north

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      now this poll and i'm sorry but i must <.>re</.> record the
      figures in the house

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      for the first time i think since the labour party was outflanked
      by social credit in the early nineteen eighties the labour
      party's in third place

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      now i know most new zealanders think it's hard to believe
      there's a public opinion poll that has the government the labour
      party in third place but it's true

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      national party is forty six percent the undecided are twenty six
      and labour's twenty one

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      and do you know this is the first time i'm assured in the
      history of the western world that a government has been
      overtaken by the undecided vote <,>

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      and of course if we look at this poll and look at the seats
      opposite and say well who's going to come back and be the
      official opposition who will her majesty's loyal opposition be
      after the next election do you know who it is

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      no <&>15:00</&>

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      it's the four maori members of parliament the member for mangere
      and the member for auckland central <&>shouts of dissent</&>

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      <.>y</.> is <.>it</.> they're going to have some interesting
      caucuses

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      <others laugh>because of course</others laugh> the member for
      <.>au</.> <stutters>auckland</stutters> central's already
      accused the member of <?>for</?> mangere of being er mentally
      deranged so you can image the unanimity in that caucus

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      mister speaker most government benches these days are empty

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      they're back in their electorates doorknocking trying to save
      their skins

  <WSC#DGU017:0105:PE>
      the government is running scared

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      i think it was a sad sight to watch the otago southland regional
      conference

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      and i say <laughs>of course</laughs> just in passing what a
      fabulous advertisement for the new law and order policy of the
      labour party their last regional conference in auckland

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      you know the one where they take swings at one another and then
      had a go at the television cameras

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      is that a party that the people of new zealand are going to
      trust in implementing a policy of law and order <&>26:00</&>

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      of course it isn't and of course <.>i</.> well i don't want to
      <.>o</.> <.>o</.> <O>voc</O> i might be naive but i'm probably
      one of the few new zealanders left who believes that it's
      actually possible to stand outside a pacific islands church and
      sign up seven hundred new members of the labour party all in one
      day even though they can't speak english

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      now i'm sure there's an innocent explanation for that and that
      this labour party really is a party that stands for the
      principles of law and order

  <WSC#DGU017:0140:??>
      we hope so <latch>

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      but i've got to say mister speaker did you see that otago
      southland regional conference

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      what's the population down there three hundred thousand people
      i'd say around three hundred thousand people

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      thirty five members <laughs>present</laughs> at the conference

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      one in every ten thousand new zealanders bothered to go to the
      otago southland regional conference

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      you know the waikato bay of plenty regional conference was just
      as sad

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      about i'd <&>17:00</&> say four hundred thousand people in that
      part of the world and less than forty people bothering to show
      up to their regional conference

  <WSC#DGU017:0175:PE>
      look the party's all but disintegrated

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      and we've got to ask in this chamber what's happened to a once
      proud party

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      what's happened to the legacy of holland savage fraser and kirk

  <WSC#DGU017:0190:PE>
      i'll tell you what's happened this labour party has deserted its
      roots

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      it's turns its back on its traditional support

  <WSC#DGU017:0200:PE>
      it's taken up with the ray smith's of the world

  <WSC#DGU017:0205:PE>
      let me give just one example

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      we had a labour minister of finance flying to auckland to launch
      that wellknown company goldcorp for his close mate ray smith

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      launching it <,> launching it in a sea of champagne and a
      mountain of caviar

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      this is while new zealanders are lined up at the social welfare
      department with their <&>18:00</&> hand out and there's a
      hundred and fifty thousand unemployed

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      our minister of finance commandeers an aeroplane and flies to
      auckland and opens one of his mates companies at the <?>height</?>
      of the sharemarket activity and tens of thousands of new
      zealanders have lost their life savings

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      do we hear an apology for the labour party for the support that
      it gave their new found friends

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      and is it any wonder that only thirty or thirty five people
      bother to show up to these regional conferences

  <WSC#DGU017:0240:PE>
      mister speaker i have to say that this government is in a
      desperate situation and this government must look very seriously
      at its leadership

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      we don't want a labour party that is all but destroyed

  <WSC#DGU017:0250:PE>
      democracy demands that the people have real options at election
      time and it is <&>19:00</&> not too late for this government to
      rethink its strategy

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      i have to say that i know that all members of this house are
      worried and concerned about the political future of the labour
      party

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      it's left the national party to represent the depressed <{1><[1>the
      unemployed</[1> the workers

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      we will carry that <{2><[2>burden</[2> that we expect <{3><[3>the
      labour party</[3> <{4><[4><unclear>word</unclear></[4>

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      <[1><?>bill dillon</?></[1></{1>

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      <[2>order</[2></{2>

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      <[3>mister speaker</[3></{3>

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      <[4><drawls>ORDER</drawls></[4></{4>

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      as following <{1><[1>the</[1> member for rotorua <,> the member
      who spent last weekend issuing his press releases to set up a
      new policy on law and order

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      that member who the day before he started work on his press
      releases was in fact regarded by some in this area as a BURglar
      <&>20:00</&> <,>

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      the member for rotorua was on the <{2><[2><.>r</.></[2> was on
      the <?>golf</?> <{3><[3><unclear>word</unclear></[3>

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      <[1>bill dillon</[1></{1>

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      <[2>hey</[2></{2>

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      <[3>point</[3></{3> of order point of order

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      order order

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      point of order

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      order order order

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      he'd better explain himself

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      yeah all right <.>mi</.> er mister dillon

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      the member the member who found himself partnered by the member
      for hamilton east and was able to do battle with the former
      minister of defence and the <.>minist</.> the high commissioner
      for australia but was able to very successfully win the money
      <,>

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      but of course that is in the nature of the game that those who
      are able to play well under their <&>21:00</&> handicap are
      referred to as burglars

  <WSC#DGU017:0355:BD>
      mister speaker during the weekend the <.>minis</.> the member
      for rotorua was very busy

  <WSC#DGU017:0360:BD>
      but what was he putting out

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      i suggest he was putting out the copy cat <.>pro</.> the copy
      cat policies er to follow the present policies engaged in by
      this government

  <WSC#DGU017:0370:BD>
      there were the shortterm strategies mister speaker

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      the one of sufficient resources for the police

  <WSC#DGU017:0380:BD>
      now mister speaker the fact of the matter is that the government
      has given the police more resources over these last six years

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      they now get three times the funding given by the previous
      government

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      funding has risen from less than one hundred and ninety million
      to more than five hundred and twenty SEven million

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      since nineteen <&>22:00</&> eighty four labour has boosted the
      force by more than three hundred sworn officers and more than
      two hundred civilians

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      during the previous time

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      this doubles the increases in the previous five years under
      national

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      now those are figures mister speaker and the numbers can be <.>c</.>
      confirmed

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      if the member for whangarei wishes to <,> check those

  <WSC#DGU017:0420:BD>
      wishes to challenge those figures let him let him call the
      figures

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      the figures themselves the figures themselves are shown in a
      form where there were five thousand seven hundred and ninety
      seven and they now are at a <,> an all time record of six
      thousand two hundred and ninety seven

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      mister speaker <&>23:00</&> these are the figures

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      these are the figures

  <WSC#DGU017:0440:BD>
      let let <.>th</.> let the member for whangarei say otherwise

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      those are figures which are the official figures from the police
      department

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      so there the second the second part of the member for rotorua's
      shortterm strategy was a call for punishment to fit the crime

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      but mister speaker this is something that has been a general
      rule of the common law for many many years and it has been
      boosted under labour with at least a DOzen new laws

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      the third was the suggestion of a reform of the prisons

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      this was a suggestion that raised some mirth in this house when
      it was brought to the attention of the house asking whether or
      not the reading recovery <&>24:00</&> er remedial reading
      available to prisoners in the in the prisons were going to be
      TESTed by those same prisoners being asked if they could read
      the contracts that the member for rotorua was proposing for them
      to consider and sign as part of his package of a new policy

  <WSC#DGU017:0470:BD>
      here we have prisoner prisoners with difficulty in reading

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      they are given remedial reading

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      the member for rotorua suggests that they should be given
      contracts to sign as to whether or not they should be given time
      off from prison and released into the community

  <WSC#DGU017:0485:BD>
      the question of new BAIL laws is also an interesting issue that
      the er that the national opposition have raised once more <,>

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      this must be something <&>25:00</&> which includes consideration
      of victims <,>

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      and we have already introduced a labour's victims of offences
      act

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      a review of the bail law is on this year's legislative agenda
      and victims are in fact considered when dealt with when the
      offenders are dealt with by the court

  <WSC#DGU017:0505:BD>
      the longterm strategies proposed by the member for rotorua
      include parental responsibility

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      and the question that must be asked mister speaker are who's to
      judge the parent's neglected responsibility <&>25:32</&> <&>tape
      cuts out</&>
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