Spring Creek mines, Nuplex and APN in Auckland, and many, many others -- manufacturing is in crisis in New Zealand. 40,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2008 when National came to government and there are more layoffs to come [xii] .  Some 65,000 more New Zealanders are unemployed [xiii] and that's not counting what Bill English now calls the "safety valve" [xiv] of 54,000 other New Zealanders giving up and moving permanently to Australia in the last year alone -- an all-time record. So we desperately need a high-value manufacturing strategy in this country. Gone are the days when manufacturing was just some unskilled worker bolting two parts together. That style of manufacturing is now inevitably done in low-wage countries. In most cases, we simply can't compete with Asia when it comes to large-scale, low-cost manufacturing. However, we're not out of the race, by any means. According to Statistics New Zealand, there are about 22,700 manufacturing businesses in New Zealand [xv] , which together produce about $20 billion of sales [xvi] . $20 billion. I believe we could triple that, not by lowering our environmental standards or paying our workers less, but doing what we do so well. New Zealand is very good at thinking small and thinking smart. We can do small production runs of specialist items. We can process raw materials that were gathered nearby. We can produce products on demand for our local market or international markets. Above all, we can think smart. We can take