issues of the week and not the Labour front bench. It is the Greens who are staying up in the polls and Labour is missing out. Despite all the talk of an annus horribilis for the Government, National remains within a percentage point or two of election night, as Labour has yet to really shake the public's belief that National has the best plan to bring us through these difficult times. Last weekend's Labour Party Conference was supposed to see the launch of a new housing policy but nobody, except the pre-primed Salvation Army Parliamentary Unit, even noticed. The 65 remits which promoted such things as 50 per cent females on all boards of directors, 'supergold' cards for under 21s to get discounted public transport and a minimum quota of women in Parliament, all went unreported. There were two days of debate on the floor of the conference and not a single report of anything except the leadership contest between Cunliffe and Shearer. In contrast, highlights from last week's efforts by the National-led Government include: hundreds of affordable homes in Auckland; progress on local government reforms; a draft transport plan for central Christchurch; two treaty bills passed; more ultra-fast broadband rolled out; the second Vulnerable Children's Team announced; and extending $15 million per year of hospice funding out two more years. A stark contrast between a Government getting on with what matters and an Opposition concerned only with themselves. So Labour needs to learn that there is a place for