Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour): Faakalofa lahi atu. E Te Māngai o Te Whare tēnā koe. I want to acknowledge those who have spoken before me and the emphasis that they've put on things that we have been doing recently as a Government—announcements that we've made some of the emphasis that we've put on how strong our economy is and how well we are doing in the ratings in terms of that performance—but actually this is the first time that I have the opportunity to speak in the House and I wanted to speak about just how proud I am of our Prime Minister showing leadership on the world stage at the United National General Assembly in New York. As the news feeds were coming in I was absolutely glued to the screen and so proud my heart bursting with pride to see Jacinda representing New Zealand—SPEAKER: Order!WILLOW-JEAN PRIME: —the Prime Minister—sorry—representing Aotearoa New Zealand on the world stage. She demonstrated compassionate value-driven leadership. She made history by being the first world leader to take her baby to the General Assembly along with the support of Clarke Gayford. She set a shining example of what women can achieve in leadership roles. Her progressive politics made her and by association Aotearoa New Zealand a global sensation. I am sure that this is going to result in a boost to our tourism and more visitors coming to New Zealand. The media coverage: the NBC's Today the BBC Fox the New York Times The Guardian Quartz Metro Elle magazine—the list goes on. Kieran McAnulty: Twitter's been pretty active too.WILLOW-JEAN PRIME: Ha ha! She made history with baby Neve at the UN General Assembly. As I said she is the first world leader to attend the UN General Assembly with her baby in tow and is only the second leader in the world to have a baby while in office. She made a comment—and I quote—she hopes one day [it] will be the norm for all women wanting to balance a career and parenting. If I can do one thing and that is change the way we think about these things then I will be pleased we have achieved something." CNN's headline was "Taking baby into UN can inspire change". There were opportunities to speak—for example at UNICEF's social good summit restating her commitment to ending child poverty and making New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. How proud I was to hear her on the world stage talking about things that are so important to us—like child poverty—and making Aotearoa New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. She talked about climate change but I want to talk about that UN speech where there were messages of kindness and equality. In fact the audience broke the convention that delegates and world leaders are told not to respond to speeches. They are not to clap and not to show any kind of emotion but this was broken when our Prime Minister spoke about the Me Too movement saying that Me Too needs to become "We Too" and the General Assembly floor erupted into applause. Her point was that we are all in it together. Her speech called for equality equality for women action on climate change and a recommitment to multilateralism. I was also proud that in her opening she spoke in Te Reo—not just a few words but several sentences in Te Reo—and she was holding a heru that was gifted to her by the people of Ngāti Rēhia from Northland from a recent visit where she and several other Ministers made announcements in my region that I know are already making such a change. So I was proud of our Prime Minister representing New Zealand on the world stage and focusing on and encouraging and sharing our progressive politics in a world where we are not actually seeing much of that. I couldn't be prouder. Kia ora."