party's leader. Subsequent to the speech, Brash's catch-cry "need not race" was taken up by the other side of the political divide, the governing Labour-Progressive coalition. An audit of government programmes was put in place to determine whether there were race-based programmes where need-based programmes would suffice. Several former New Zealand Prime Ministers have criticized the speech in the time since its delivery. Jim Bolger said in an interview published in 2017 it was in the same "frame" as Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and that "some people follow absurdities". Former Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark said of Brash's motives that "he would’ve done a lot of opinion polling on that, and knew it would strike a chord". Legacy Brash returned to Orewa on 25 January 2005, hoping to capitalise on the previous year's success, and gave a speech on social welfare and on welfare dependency. This speech, dubbed Orewa 2, failed to generate the publicity of the original. After failing to endorse this second speech, National's social-welfare spokesperson Katherine Rich was removed. Brash has returned to make annual 'Orewa speeches' every year since, on a wide range of topics. See also Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements Footnotes External links Text of the 2005 speech 2004 speeches Political history of New Zealand Race relations in New Zealand Māori politics New Zealand National Party 2004 in New Zealand 2004 in politics