Moana Mackey wants to know whether the ACT Party truly believes that the Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill will make a difference. The answer is a categorical yes. If we did not believe that this bill would make a difference, we would not be supporting it, and I would not be supporting it.
Moana Mackey talked about ACT as being a libertarian party. She may not realise that there is a party called Libertarianz, which stood at the last election. We are not that party; we are the ACT Party. We are a party of choice; we stand for choice. In this case, the ACT Party will be supporting a bill put forward by the people of Wanganui. They want this bill, and that is one of the reasons we have considered it and will be supporting it. I say to the sponsor, Mr Borrows, that if 58 members of the National Party vote for this bill, it will be passed into law.
What did Mr Hodgson have to say? He said that the ACT Party is consistent. It might be “consistently wrong”, in Mr Hodgson’s words, but at least it is consistent. Well, I ask Mr Hodgson to cast his mind back to last month. He and his party voted to repeal the Electoral Finance Act, a law that was passed by the Labour Government despite widespread opposition from people throughout this country. What did Labour do less than 15 months after it had passed that Act into law? It voted for its repeal. I tell Mr Hodgson that that is a very smart move. He talked about the ACT Party being consistent; well, if any party has been inconsistent on an issue in the last 15 months it has been his party. Thank you.