Yang JianDr JIAN YANG (National): This is Chinese Language Week. I will say I wish you all the best." in Chinese: "Zhu ni wan shi ru yi."—祝你万事如意.Just one year and three days ago we had an election and a few weeks later we had a new coalition Government so it's about time to think about the celebration of the first anniversary of the Government. What will they be celebrating?Well for New Zealand First they may well be celebrating the anti-democratic waka-jumping bill. I see this as a forced marriage—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume his seat. I just want to make it very clear to the member that that bill is on the Order Paper. It can be debated at that time; that debate cannot be anticipated on the same day.Dr JIAN YANG: OK.Kieran McAnulty: Oh no—what's on your hand? Check your hand. Dr JIAN YANG: OK—that's OK. But there may be—SPEAKER: Order! Order!Dr JIAN YANG: There may well be—SPEAKER: No no—sorry. I do apologise to the member. Who's referring to my hands? Kieran McAnulty: Oh yep—my mistake. SPEAKER: Well the member will stand withdraw and apologise. He's a whip. He needs to get his interjections in order. Kieran McAnulty: I withdraw and apologise. SPEAKER: Dr Jian Yang—now we're going to start this again. Start right from the beginning—five minutes. Dr JIAN YANG: OK thanks Mr Speaker. Again I wish you all the best: zhu ni wan shi ru yi—祝你万事如意. This is Chinese Language Week. It is one year and three days ago that we had the election and we were the largest party but in the end well we had a new coalition Government. So it's about time to think about the celebration of the anniversary of the coalition Government. What will they be celebrating? I've thought about this. Well New Zealand First—I'm not talking about the bill—may think about celebrating the billion trees. They've talked a lot about the billion trees but I haven't seen many trees there. But they will be celebrating anyway. The Greens may be celebrating the ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration. Well it will cost the Government a billion dollars in terms of lost revenue and thousands of jobs for ordinary New Zealanders but who cares? We'll be celebrating the empty principle at the cost of the New Zealand economy. Then the Labour Party—well a wave of strikes. They'll be celebrating the strikes. Just now before I came into the Chamber I saw the report that primary school teachers and the principals have rejected the proposal and are going to have a strike and then Wellington bus drivers are going to have a strike indefinitely. So this is the Labour Government: a wave of strikes. But this is Chinese Language Week so I paid special attention to the achievement of the Labour Government in matching the numbers with Chinese culture. You know eight in China is a very good number. Eight means rich—well Labour has done a lot to match eight. Firstly one-eight which means getting rich: what have they done to match one-eight? Eighteen KiwiBuild houses—18 KiwiBuild houses right; 18—to get rich. Then two-eight is also a good number—two-eight. What have they done? Free tertiary education—$2.8 billion wasted. So $2.8 billion has been wasted—so one-eight two-eight. And they have other numbers right? One-six-eight is even better which means you will get smooth and get rich all the way—one-six-eight. Yi lu fa—一路发. What have they achieved there? One hundred and sixty-eight working groups. Actually they have passed 168 and they now have 172. There are going to be 178 before too long. So there's one-seven-eight. There's another number which is even better—that is four-eight. In Chinese it's si fa—死发—which means you are going to be extremely rich—four-eight. Well what have they done for that matching number? The rental price: this week the average rental price is $480 a week. That's a record high rental price so Labour has done so much to match the Chinese magical number eight. So this is the Government. Now you come to another area which is of course business confidence which is now at a 10-year low. In 2016 business confidence was the second-highest among OECD countries. Now it's the second-lowest among OECD countries. What does it mean? It means a lot to business particularly small business. I was on my way just a few weeks ago from China back to Auckland on a plane and I met a Chinese businessman a restaurant owner. He was complaining about how hard it is now to do business and that is not an exceptional case. There are many cases—many many examples. I would like to emphasise that this coalition Government has done a lot to match the magic numbers. The eight in Chinese means wealthy but for the Government it may be wealthier because of more tax. But for ordinary Chinese and ordinary people in New Zealand they are not getting wealthier. They are getting poorer. So this is the Government which is going to celebrate without caring—SPEAKER: Order! The time for this debate has expired. The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."