Adams Amy: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeAdams Amy: General Debate[Sitting date: 29 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5431. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon AMY ADAMS (Minister of Justice): I cannot help sitting in this House and noticing just how grumpy Labour members are getting. Have you noticed that? They are grumpier and grumpier and you have to think that it is because the factions in their caucus are getting so far apart it is looking more and more like the Grand Canyon but with one side reducing and looking like a puddle. On the one hand you have the free-traders like Phil Goff David Shearer and Clayton Cosgrove who used to understand that free trade was good for this country. They used to celebrate the success for New Zealand that free trade brought and they hate with a passion the U-turn that Labour is now doing in terms of supporting free trade. Then on the other hand you have Claire Curran Sue Moroney and Ruth Dyson who hate the free-traders. They cannot wait to drag New Zealand back into the fortress mentality of the 1960s because socialism frankly has never liked success. But there is one thing they do agree on and that is that they all hate Phil Twyford. They all hate Phil Stoner Twyford and why would they not?I have to say that it is a very different Labour Party from the one under Helen Clark is it not? It is a very different Labour Party from the Labour Party of 2002 when Helen Clark said this—and I do not often quote Helen Clark: “There was … a time when New Zealand was fearful of cultural diversity and distinctly unwelcoming to migrants of Chinese descent …”. She expressed sorrow and regret that such practices were once considered appropriate and she hoped her apology would give full closure on that chapter in our history. Well would she not be horrified that it is her own party that has now gone back to picking on Kiwis who happen to have a name that sounds Chinese and is being very unwelcoming to them and suggesting that somehow they should not be entitled to buy a house in New Zealand—that somehow that is wrong. Would she not be horrified? Would she not be horrified to see the demonising of those New Zealanders?The Labour Party of today took a policy of changing our flag and having a referendum on it to the election. Labour members stood up during the election campaign in October and said: “We want to change the flag. We think there should be a referendum.” Actually they still have on their website today a statement saying that their policy is to have a referendum to change the flag. Yet they send their leader into the House and in front of the public day after day to stand up and completely sell his soul for political expediency. They are doing that with complete craven insincerity because they think there might be a win in it. Well New Zealanders see through that sort of falsehood—just ask David Cunliffe. How well did insincerity work for David Cunliffe? And they will see through Andrew Little. But if that is not enough now he is having a crack at the anthem. He is having a crack at the New Zealand anthem. When will it end? How long will it take for Labour members to stop running down this country? How long will it take for them to stop bagging this country which we love and which we are proud of? Well I can tell you this: maybe the reason they hate the anthem is because most of the people who proudly sing it hate them. I think that is what it is about. They know that the people who proudly sing our anthem are not supporting the Labour Party and that is why they are not happy about it.Our party the National Party stands for a New Zealand that is positive. It supports this country it is confident it is outward looking and it embraces our multicultural diversity. This is a party that understands that free trade brings jobs. We have seen 211000 more people employed since 2010 because of the policies of this Government which knows that it is business that creates wealth in our economy. Our job is to create an environment for those people to get ahead. That is what is working. That is why we see a country that is slashing through the never-ending deficits that were left to us by Labour. Our country has one of the strongest growth rates in the OECD and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the OECD. It has tripled the average internet speeds which I am very proud of. In the manufacturing sector it has seen 33 months of month-on-month growth which began shortly after Labour declared the crisis of course. Wages are rising faster than inflation. We have solid growth. We have a Government led by an inspirational leader who is proud of this country and will back it every day.