Williams ArenaARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa): Talofa lava Mr Speaker and fa'afetai tele lava. This week last year was the first for me as the Labour candidate for Manurewa but it was after 14 years of campaigning and community organising for the people who need us most and I can tell you that the community organiser in me—the kid who volunteered to deliver leaflets and run phone banks and organise cottage meetings—is proud of this Budget. She is proud of this Budget 2021 which brings with it a wellbeing framework that builds on our previous Budgets in Government. It's a Budget which has no surprises because it's so intrinsically Labour. We saw at the election people overwhelmingly choose to support this Labour Government's vision for the future and that's exactly what they've got out of Budget 2021. It's a Budget which lifts 33000 children out of poverty. It's a Budget that tackles the root causes of inequality and addresses exactly those factors which are driving up gang membership. That's why I'm proud of it and I'm proud of it because it deals with the situation which is most affecting people from Manurewa and from South Auckland who are the people who I've always been campaigning for. So Mr Speaker if you'll indulge me and let me talk about some of the things which will make the biggest difference for my people in Manurewa they are things like the Puhinui station interchange in Manurewa which will generate 2121 jobs in South Auckland. That's a massive project which not only creates those jobs but links our Papatoetoe and Manurewa communities with one of the biggest employers in South Auckland which is the airport. That's a game-changer for that community. It provides that direct link with public transport and with jobs which our people need. I'm thinking about our extending the National Bowel Screening Programme to Auckland and Manukau district health boards for people aged 60 to 74. We know that people in South Auckland are at a high risk and in that age group that's when you can catch those risk factors for our people who suffer these diseases which are associated with bowel screening at an earlier age and it will make a difference for our kuia and kaumātua there. I'm thinking about the $18.9 million for Te Pūtahi Māori o Manurewa. It's a campus that will house both Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Manurewa and Te Wharekura o Manurewa. I was lucky enough to visit it last week with our Māori Ministers who came and saw the joy on the kids' faces when the kids performed their haka with so much pride in their community of Manurewa being given the resources to create not just a new school for themselves but a hub for the community who are Māori in Manurewa and they are so proud of their very deep links to that community.I'm thinking as well of our Finlayson Park School. It's one of the schools which is in line for an upgrade—161 South Auckland schools to a total value of $45.9 million. For Finlayson Park that means new heating infrastructure and warmer drier classrooms. I was also lucky to visit that school and to celebrate with them Samoan Language Week. It's a special school because they're bilingual not only in English and Māori but in English and Samoan and to see these Samoan-speaking kids celebrating their heritage and knowing that they will have warm dry classrooms to continue to learn their reo rangatira and to learn about their community was really special for me. I'm thinking also about the 73 new jobs that are created by the Jobs for Nature fund in South Auckland which includes raising 480000 native plants for Takanini Papakura Manurewa and beyond. I visited them on Tuesday morning and I met with some of the kids who are part of that programme that the funding will support. These are kids who are referred by police and who are referred by our court systems who have fallen through the cracks through the Oranga Tamariki system but who are learning to just be a part of something like Jobs for Nature where they can go every day and learn practical skills about how to regenerate te taiao and to look after their whenua. That programme feeds into a pipeline of employment and education opportunities where these kids can then go on to take advantage of Labour's revitalisation of vocational training in South Auckland which will provide more and more jobs in South Auckland. Finally I want to reflect on the $12 million in Mana Ake funding for mental wellbeing supports in primary and intermediate schools which will make a difference in South Auckland and the $11.6 million to expand the Reading Together Te Pānui Ngātahi partnerships and Duffy Books in Homes programmes. It's those programmes which in our South Auckland schools are getting more books in te reo Māori and in our languages like Samoan into the hands of our tamariki and they are increasing learning and that's why this is a magnificent Budget for Manurewa and for all New Zealanders.