Davis KelvinHon KELVIN DAVIS (Minister for Crown/Māori Relations): Thank you Mr Speaker and might I just say that it's been an absolutely fantastic start to the year for this Labour-led Government and for our coalition partners and our confidence and supply partners. It's actually been a fantastic first 100 days. We have a Prime Minister that appeals to all of New Zealand—to men to women to young people to children. We have implemented a raft of changes to make New Zealand a better place for all in housing in health in mental health—which has been sadly neglected—and in education. Now the best education Minister in the last 10 years has just launched a package that's going to make changes to education that are going to lift educational achievement. We've made changes to the paid parental leave. We've introduced the Families Package. We've introduced student allowances the winter energy payment one-year free tertiary and most important of all we've introduced child poverty reduction targets. But let's go to the start of the year and from a Māori perspective I just want to talk on the fantastic day that we had at Rātana—the day when the Government walked on together surrounded by hundreds of supporters looked on by hundreds of other supporters. I have to apologise to all the people that came on with us who couldn't all fit in the tent. They had to spill over out into the sun and sit on the grass. But it was a fantastic welcome and the Prime Minister was roundly welcomed. We did have the opportunity to see the Opposition be welcomed on after us and I'm sure all 10 of them had a fantastic welcome as well. Then we go to Waitangi and the Prime Minister was there for five full days. Now I read the Leader of the Opposition's newspaper reports—his comments in the newspaper—about how it's going to be a total flop or how the Labour Party's going to turn up to Waitangi and we're going to have a horrible reception from the Iwi Chairs Forum there and we're going to go there and dictate to the iwi chairs. I saw that the Leader of the Opposition got as far away from Waitangi as he could—in fact he got down to Bluff. The only reason he wasn't on the Auckland Islands was because there were no Waitangi Day celebrations organised down there. But instead what happened? The Prime Minister turns up and peace breaks out at Ngāpuhi. The Prime Minister was welcomed with open arms. We went to the Iwi Leaders Forum where we didn't dictate to them. We didn't talk about what we're going to do to them. Instead we spoke about our shared priorities and how we're going to work together to achieve them. The Prime Minister met with real people. She met with the Māori Wardens. For the first time in history a Prime Minister has turned up and had a pōwhiri from Māori Wardens just to recognise the fantastic work that they do in our Māori communities and you should have seen the look of joy on their faces. We met with the Māori Women's Welfare League. The Prime Minister diverted for two hours—a side trip—to meet the waka crews and it was the Prime Minister's idea that her Ministers and the MPs serve breakfast to the people instead of what Prime Ministers previously have done and that's having an invite-only breakfast for the elite. That's because our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is a Prime Minister for the people. She's warm she's generous she's authentic and the nation loves her. Then we look across at the National Party and we look at their problems. Well their problem is themselves. Who do they have to appeal to the masses? Who is warm and kind and generous? Well Judith Collins is putting her hand up to lead the National Party and warmth" and Judith Collins' name shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence unless of course you're talking about the heat that the members of the National Party caucus who don't support her are going to feel. Then you have Simon Bridges. I like him. I like Simon Bridges and I'd back him. He's a Māori so us Māoris have got to stick together and he's a genuine "Mar-ree" from Tauranga. All he has to do is work on his Te Reo. Other than that he's tūturu as. And in fact the National Party needed him at Waitangi because they missed the briefing. They turned up they sat down on the taumata and the part under the gazebo that was reserved for the kaumātua and kuia was taken up by all the hangers-on MPs in the National Party and it didn't go unnoticed. Just quickly while I have time—Mark Mitchell. Now here's a man with warmth and authenticity. He's got a great back story he's a truly decent bloke and he co-captained the Parliamentary "Golden Oldies" Rugby Team at the last Parliamentary Rugby World Cup. That alone should lift Mark Mitchell's stocks and I wish him all the best in the leadership thing that's going on with the National Party."