Ngarewa-Packer Debbie; O'Connor GregDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Look I've heard a lot of discussion in the last few months and accusations of being soft on crime. I want to raise about being soft on poverty and soft on hate and bigotry. And what we have seen is accusations of coalitions of this this and this. In fact I've seen a coalition of bloated barons. But anyway never have I seen such a wasteful use of influence when we have here those who are so lazy and apathetic that they are triggering fear instead of creating policy that could have been transformational and indeed provided solutions.What we have seen amongst the screen of co-governance He Puapua Māori separatism is a complete lack of attention on the white collar crime—the $7 billion in tax evasion that's gone around safely unattacked and under the radar. We are the only tangata whenua party that has sight of the struggling poor and saying consciously Māori are not the problem to be punished we are the opportunity waiting to happen. That's why we have said we must continue to be fearless in supporting what we have seen which is big parties refusing to address the problem of poverty.We have talked about removing GST from all kai. We have talked about regulating supermarkets and their ability to hike prices removing income tax for low-income whānau increasing income tax on those earning more than $200000 increasing the corporate tax from 28 percent to 33 percent. We will also—unlike what we didn't see happen today—unlike National talk about net wealth tax. We would implement a net wealth tax foreign companies' tax land banking tax vacant house tax. Our tax system is doing exactly what it was designed to do and that is designed to give privilege to the rich. We're not anti being wealthy what we're anti about is trying to get through a tax system that's been designed against us.So now what we have in Aotearoa is the richest 10 percent owning half of the wealth in the country and on top of that the average person in Aotearoa paying 20.2 percent in tax while the filthy rich pay 9.4 percent. It's time that we were transformational. Te Paati Māori needs to be in with this next Government because that's clearly what is lacking. We've seen the growing wealth inequality in our country. It's unacceptable—totally unacceptable—that over 2 million people in Aotearoa earn less than $30000 per year. And we're wondering why we have other social complex issues. Nearly 50 percent of our working population do not earn enough to live. So we've got to shift the tax burden from the poor to the wealthy and restore dignity fairness and economic justice in Aotearoa—that's what we stand for.Instead here what we have is a New Zealand where we've got more houses empty than we have people needing houses. But because we subsidise and don't tax the extravagant lifestyles of the rich it's been normalised. No one should go hungry while supermarkets are making record profits in Aotearoa. No one should be homeless when there are enough vacant houses to house everyone. Whānau should not be having to choose between paying their bills on time or taking their babies to the doctor. And we are no longer accepting excuses from the two major parties who are fighting to keep people poor. We are putting our pou in the ground and now is the time for radical change—our tamariki are literally hungry for it.Under our tax plan—our tax provision we talked about—4.2 million people will be better off paying less in tax in Aotearoa; that's 98 percent of our population. We are endearing. Like I said we must be fearless. And we keep talking about this: we hear a lot of talk about the unprecedented times but we're not sadly seeing any unprecedented solutions. It means that we have to sit there and be the smallest ones. We will put ourselves on the line for the type of radical change that's needed.So we stand at the precipice of an Aotearoa hou and that's the slogan that we've chosen because we are the only ones future-focused on what Aotearoa could look like where we could have economic justice. And it shouldn't just be a dream; it should be a reality. So we don't want to continue to be a people who survives we want and we must go into thrivance. So we want thrivance for all people of Aotearoa. So we envisage an Aotearoa hou where every whānau is thriving. Our policy that we stand for our values and our kaupapa is to be the most transformative party supporting those who are truly focused on eradicating poverty looking after our planet and making sure that we can have dignity. No more beating up on minorities—that's detestable. Kia ora rā.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The time for this debate has expired.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.