Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday in the commencement speeches on this side of the House we heard it noted again and again that New Zealand voted for change last election. With that comes a responsibility to deliver real change. For me carrying the kaupapa of the Green Party in foreign affairs and trade and in defence that means holding an unwavering call for New Zealand to stand as an independent voice on the world stage. We have done it before and we know that we're good at it.In trade that means the call to divest from that archaic so-called free-trade agreement that has led to the misery of the last global financial crisis and the values that underpin the misery of inequality at record rates here in New Zealand. The Green Party called for a new style of trade—one that puts people and planet before the profits of multinational corporations—and eventually the Government heard our call. I got to stand here proudly as the voice of thousands out there and finally this Government has committed to never again enter into that kind of trade agreement because we know that there is no such thing as free trade. Someone is writing those thousands of pages' worth of rules. Someone is paying and someone is profiting in the billions. We know that we can't afford to deregulate our healthcare system our education system and our environmental protections so that they get to profit.So we will stay vigilant but hopeful because the Government has committed to put people and planet first now. In foreign affairs that means carrying forward that call—that renewed call—and we need to have a new approach. Whether it's in national security or whether it's in the way that we pick and the way that we follow our allies it's time—as Green Party MPs have called for many many times before—for us to review the way we support the likes of Trump in spying on our Asia-Pacific neighbours through the Five Eyes network. If we're going to stand up to perceived threats of spying by China through Huawei we need to do that with integrity. We need to regulate our own spy agencies like the GCSB. In defence it means spending less on billion-dollar war planes and focusing more on what our defence force does best on environmental monitoring in the Pacific on disaster relief and on supporting scientific research to combat climate change in the Antarctic.It's time at this moment in global history for New Zealand to stand apart from the nations who happily put the profits of the war industry before the misery of actual people and our planet. There is no longer any doubt that war is an industry. Instead we should stand as an independent voice; a voice for peace. It's time we stopped hosting the war industry as we did in Palmerston North last year.As a mark of our commitment to peace I'm calling on the Minister of Defence to end our deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan where war began illegally and has now turned into a perpetual nightmare of violence. We need to be investing those millions of dollars in providing useful development and humanitarian aid and building pathways to peace because we know that people trapped in perpetual military occupation are only going to watch their children be recruited into more and more violent militias. Instead New Zealand needs to do things differently. Only through that independence will we be effective as brokers of peace as we have been before.So we need to stand as a counterpoint to the politics of hate and division and violence on the rise elsewhere in the world—supported for nine years on that side of the House. We need to do things differently because that's what New Zealanders voted for. The rhetoric of change won't do because actually lives are at stake. But I am hopeful because we have cooperation on this side of the House. The first true MMP Government is working together to change things and we will be that independent voice on the global stage again.