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TUESDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2020 |
The Speaker took the Chair at 2 p.m. |
Karakia. |
OBITUARIES |
Rt Hon Michael Kenneth (Mike) Moore ONZ, AO |
SPEAKER: I regret to inform the House of the death on 2 February 2020 of former Prime Minister the Rt Hon Michael Kenneth (Mike) Moore ONZ, AO, who was an MP from 1972 to 1975 and 1978 to 1999. |
Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House): Following agreement this morning at the Business Committee, I seek leave for the Prime Minister's statement to be provided and presented and for the debate on it to commence on Wednesday, 12 February, and, following the speeches of the leaders of each party, for oral questions t... |
SPEAKER: Is there any objection to that course of action being followed? There is none. |
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN (Prime Minister): I seek leave to move a motion without notice on the death of former Prime Minister Mike Moore. |
SPEAKER: Is there any objection to that course of action being taken? There is none. |
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: I move, That this House place on record its appreciation and thanks for the devoted and distinguished service to New Zealand by the late Rt Hon Michael Kenneth Moore, Member of the Order of New Zealand, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, an Honorary Member of the Order of Au... |
I want to say to all of Mike's loved ones, especially Yvonne, that our thoughts and prayers are with you and that we grieve with you. In his valedictory speech, Mike Moore said, "It is nice to see so many people here at my farewell and funeral. If only people had said such supportive things when I was alive!" I'm sorry... |
I've read the commentary about Mike since he passed. The word "battler" is often used. Mike fought for people. He fought for what he believed in. He fought for New Zealand's interests around the world, and, as any politician does, he had his share of battles here in Parliament. Despite those battles, Mike loved Parliam... |
A true working-class Prime Minister, Mike Moore showed all New Zealanders that hard work, initiative, guts, and determination can lead to very big things. He taught everyone to aim for the stars, because that's what he did, via books. Mike left school at the age of 15 for a job in the freezing works, but he was an avid... |
Mike didn't stop at reading, though. Throughout his life, he was a prolific author and wrote books on economics, New Zealand history, politics, and much, much more. But in all of that, this place remained central to him. He once said, "The Labour Party has been my training college; Parliament, my university." He loved ... |
In the Hansard and his many interviews, we will always be able to remember Mike and hear his totally unique voice, and it's a voice that was consistent. Mike's affinity for the Labour Party developed at a young age. He joined Labour when he was 15 years old and was the first youth representative on the Labour Party exe... |
Hon Grant Robertson: A fine organisation. |
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: —a very fine organisation—for two consecutive terms. This dedication to the Labour Party and its cause never diminished, over many decades. As a member of Parliament and as Prime Minister, Mike was passionate about many things, including constitutional change and creating a united New Zealand. I'... |
Mike would've been proud to see the debate and the discussion last week at Waitangi, where we came together to reflect on the past, to challenge our present, and to be hopeful about our future. We must continue to work together to create a nation we can continue to be proud of, building on the call that Mike left to al... |
It was unsurprising that Mike took a global leadership role in trade after he left politics. As Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing, he was involved with the GATT trade round negotiations in their trade missions to Australia, China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, and across Europe. There aren't many people... |
Mike was also a staunch union man. Much like politics, he joined the union movement at a young age and became a member of the Auckland Trades Council when he was 17. Mike always had time for workers because he was one himself. He once said it was rubbish that you did not make real friends in Parliament, before listing ... |
I was fortunate enough to see Mike a few days before he passed, and he encouraged me to keep thinking about the vision we hold for the future—not one for small talk. So, Mike, I want to say we will keep aiming high. You led by example and showed what hard work, passion, and care for others can achieve. |
I'd like to end with a mihi recently penned by a member in this House. Translated, the mihi reads: "The tōtara of the political world has fallen. Sir, you travelled the distance, scaled the heights, traversed the seas, now your time is over and you must return. Your Waka awaits [you] on the tides of Matauri, the prow f... |
Hon SIMON BRIDGES (Leader of the Opposition): The National Opposition joins with the Government in paying tribute to Mike Moore, New Zealand's 34th Prime Minister and the 11th leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. On 2 February 2020, New Zealand lost not only one of its staunchest advocates for free trade and open ma... |
One of the things Mike said in one of his interviews—on, I think, The 9th Floor interview on RNZ—that stuck with me was "The greatest betrayal we can make of our people is to not care." No one could say Mike didn't care, and courageously so, about the people that he served. It was caring for people, dedicating his life... |
Much of Mike's legacy is around trade, free trade, and promoting New Zealand to the world, and I'll come to his tenure at the World Trade Organization in a moment. But his early thinking on the benefits of free trade certainly paved the way for New Zealand's entry into the world of free trade. When the fourth National ... |
He knew that the benefits of selling our products to the world without enormous tariffs meant New Zealand would be a richer country for it and that everyone could share in the benefits of a growing economy. He led new thinking in the Labour Party that saw free trade as an opportunity for advancing the New Zealand brand... |
Mike's time as a Prime Minister was only 60 days long, but he is credited by many for stopping a wipe-out of the Labour Party in the 1990 general election. He led the Labour Party for another three years and almost returned them to Government in the 1993 general election. I'm sure Jim Bolger was delighted not to have t... |
His leadership at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was short but significant. He worked to spread free trade to the far-flung reaches of our world because he saw the potential in new markets and new opportunities for many different people, like it had done for us. His tenure in the United States as our ambassador end... |
No doubt everyone would agree with me that it was a life well lived or, as Chris Trotter said, "not bad for a former printer and freezing-worker!" To his wife, Yvonne, to his family, and to his friends, there is no doubt Mike will have left a hole in your family as well as New Zealand. Jane Clifton noted Mike Moore was... |
As I've said, Mike never lacked courage and was a great parliamentarian, but sometimes he could become so voluble that it was hard to work out what precisely he was arguing. Some of his former colleagues have told me of the lengthy and not always intelligible memos he would send to them when he was about to depart over... |
He will be remembered for his belief in free trade when others in his party did not. He will be remembered for serving our country in the highest of international roles and putting our country on the map. He will be remembered for his belief in the potential of every New Zealander. He will be remembered as a great New ... |
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): Colleagues, it's not uncommon on these occasions of eulogy to sometimes be wondering exactly who the speaker's talking about. The difference on this special occasion is that any words of praise and respect have a particular significance because they happen to be true. Mich... |
From the time he was elected to Parliament at the age of 23 to his final year, he was constantly thinking about how to advance New Zealand's interests. Mike was that rare politician whose outlook was improved by his life in Parliament and he seriously grew in the job. As many of you will know, as a young man, Mike beat... |
He took to heart the idea that it was his job to learn more about the issues. You know, he was given the gift of time, and he used that gift to its fullest. He was curious and he was open to changing his mind when presented with new information. These are traits which are far too rare these days. |
Many New Zealanders will have fond memories of his political career, whether it was his championing of lamburgers, his witty turn of phrase, his restless energy, or his passion for helping New Zealanders of all walks of life. I remember his cynical doubt about expert advice. Mike would say, "Well, we know it works in p... |
Everywhere he went, people saw the passion Mike had for New Zealand and connecting it to the world, and by the time he left Parliament, Mike was a champion of the role that free and fair trade can play in lifting people out of poverty and improving living standards. |
It's important to acknowledge his role on the international stage as the only New Zealander to lead the World Trade Organization, and then as New Zealand's Ambassador to the United States. His time at the World Trade Organization coincided with momentous changes for New Zealand and the global economy. He oversaw the su... |
Truth be told, Mike attained the highest international position of any New Zealander abroad. This is a truly remarkable achievement. But through it all, Mike's historic body of achievements, what we will remember is the warm, passionate, funny, mischievous man that we will miss. Let us also pay special tribute to Mike'... |
When thinking of a literary parallel for our sentiments today, there's one tribute that stands out. It could've been written about Mike, but it's advice that Rudyard Kipling gave to his son: |
If you can keep your head when all about you |
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, |
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, |
But make allowance for their doubting too; |
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, |
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, |
Or being hated, don't give way to hating, |
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise; |
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master, |
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; |
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster |
And treat those two impostors just the same; |
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken |
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, |
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken |
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools. |
And, to close, further on: |
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, |
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, |
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, |
If all men count with you, but none too much; |
If you can fill the unforgiving minute |
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, |
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, |
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son! |
That was Mike Moore, the boy from Kawakawa and Moerewa, who went as an orphan to secondary school and turned his life dramatically around. In the words from Hamlet, |
Goodnight, sweet Prince, |
And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest. |
MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā tātou katoa ōku hoa kaimahi o Te Whare Pāremata. It is with the utmost respect that I rise on behalf of the Green Party to pay our contribution and tribute to Mike Moore, previous Prime Minister and previous leader of the Labour Party. We acknowle... |
I read and saw with interest that he was also a young MP—23, I believe—when he entered this House. That is an incredible achievement, something that the Greens know intimately what it is like with our young Chlöe Swarbrick. Whatever people are in their public lives, there are always whole other dimensions to those peop... |
I acknowledge and saw with pride that he was also a man of the North—a person of my North. I fondly remembered his Kawakawa—my memories of coming over the three bumpy bridges on our way over from Hokianga, coming over to Whangārei—and Moerewa also being a home place of many of my whakapapa, uncles and aunties, who were... |
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