Robertson GrantGRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central): I knew that National was going to try to hide a few things during the US election count but I did not think it would try to hide the end of Judith Collins' political career because that speech—it is all over. There is no more Judith Campaign". The small faction for Judith Collins that remains in the Chamber now—that is it. And after that speech I do not think the "Judith for PM" or the "Judith for National Leader" campaign is going to go anywhere whatsoever. On the weekend the Labour Party held its conference and I heard the speech of the next Prime Minister of New Zealand Andrew Little. Andrew Little's speech on Sunday was a speech of positivity. It was a speech about the things that New Zealanders care about: good decent housing for all New Zealanders; an education system where it does not matter what community you are from there will be a world-class education there for your children; and a health system where we restore the $1.7 billion worth of cuts that this National Government has made and where we do not think it is OK for people to lose their sight while they wait for treatment. That is the health system that National has delivered us. Andrew Little promised something much much better than that. And there was the centrepiece of the speech that Andrew Little gave at that conference which is the fact that on this side of the House we give a damn about young New Zealanders. We believe that having 74000 young New Zealanders not in employment not in education and not in training is not only a disgrace it is a massive loss of potential talent for our country. It is 10000 more people than when the National Government took office. It is 3000 more than last year. This is a Government sitting on its hands as the potential of young New Zealanders goes to waste and the plan that Andrew Little outlined on Sunday was a clear one. We are going to have programmes that are about making sure young New Zealanders are ready for work.Steven Joyce in his response to our announcement on Sunday said: "Why are you competing with other employers who want to employ these people?". There is the man who does not understand the labour market because these are the young New Zealanders who need a helping hand. These are the young New Zealanders who could be fantastic contributors in the workplace but they do not have the skills to take those jobs up at the moment. That is why they need a programme with mentors. That is why they need a programme where we will support them to get the skills to be able to go on and flourish and fulfil their potential. And the National Government's solution for those people is to write them off as being pretty damned hopeless drug-addled not ready and not living in the right place. That is called giving up. That is called giving up on the next generation of New Zealanders.We are not going to do that on this side of the House so we have got the Ready for Work programme in place. We have also got a programme that will ensure that New Zealanders can face the future of work with confidence and I want to say to all of my colleagues and the thousands of New Zealanders around the country who have supported Labour in our Future of Work project thank you very much. We are proud of this report because what it does is what National never does. We are looking ahead. We are not worried about how we are going to look in the next 24 hours of the news; we are worried about how New Zealand will look in 20 years' time. It is time for a Government that actually plans for the future and that gets alongside New Zealanders to grow new businesses to adapt to the changing technology and to make sure that the benefits of globalisation actually reach working people. On that side of the House they would rather see young New Zealanders as collateral damage in their ideological crusade. Well on this side of the House we are not interested in that. We are interested in practical solutions: 3 years' free post-secondary school education and training taking the dole being paid to 18-and 19-year-olds and making that a subsidy for apprenticeships and getting people into work opportunities that grow their skills and make them the kind of employee that people will want to take on. I have been to about 20 Labour Party conferences now in my life and the one that I went to over the weekend is the best one I have ever been to. This is a party that has a plan for the future. We are going to do what Labour parties have done for a hundred years. We will build a better New Zealand. We will invest in people. We will make sure that every single New Zealander has the opportunity to grow up in a warm dry home to have a good education and to have decent work. That is the legacy of the last hundred years of the Labour Party and that is what will win us the election next year."