Adams Amy: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeAdams Amy: General Debate[Sitting date: 29 April 2015. Volume:704;Page:3006. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon AMY ADAMS (Minister of Justice):You have got to say that sitting here in the House day after day it is getting harder and harder to figure out who the Leader of the Opposition is is it not? It is getting harder and harder to sit here and work out who is actually leading the Opposition. We have got the Greens scrapping for Russel Norman’s job. Given the enthusiasm with which they are going after that they clearly think it is them. We know that in New Zealand First leadership contests are banned. They are not allowed in New Zealand First. Labour has had three leadership contests and still cannot find a Leader of the Opposition that anyone likes.One thing remains true and that is no matter who is driving the bus on the left no matter who is in charge of the Opposition parties they hate it when New Zealand does well. Do they not hate it? Do they not hate the reality that New Zealand is envied across the world? They truly are merchants of misery. They are at their happiest when there is doom and gloom to peddle. We know New Zealand is growing at 3.5 percent a year one of the fastest rates in the world. We know average wages are up. We know that employment is growing. Do they not hate it? They absolutely hate it.The reality is that New Zealand is on a track that is envied by most of the world. You have only to read any international respected media and the commentary on New Zealand is saying: “Look at what New Zealand is doing. Why can’t we do that?”. And yet in New Zealand we have got Opposition parties that want to pretend that the sky is falling. They hate it. They want to get excited about all sorts of sideshows and they miss the fact that New Zealand and our leader are held up across the world as absolute beacons for how to get it right.Let us look at this week. This week we have got Andrew Little posing for selfies with Ed Miliband while the Prime Minister is off in the Gulf brokering a trade deal that will put more jobs into New Zealand that will raise incomes for New Zealanders and that will create more of the things that this country needs. It means growing incomes for our Kiwi families and our Kiwi mums and dads. It means New Zealand will keep having some of the lowest mortgage interest rates that it has had for many years and it means that we will continue to have an economy that can deliver the things that Kiwi families want.The economy can deliver greater early childhood education for our children and more high-quality early childhood education for more students. It can deliver parental tax credit increases extending them and increasing them for those in the lowest income brackets. It means we can deliver on things like free health care for children under 13 in this country. That is the dividend of a growing economy—free health care for those under 13. It means that 90000 first-home buyers are locked into their first home under the Homestart package that my colleague Nick Smith has delivered. It means hundreds of millions of dollars of ACC levies returned to Kiwi families put back into the pockets of hard-working families. It means extended paid parental leave. It means any number of policies that really help New Zealand families to get ahead.This is a Government that is helping to keep women and children safe in their homes when they want to leave a violent abusive domestic relationship. We have ensured that the most vulnerable people in our justice sector—women children and young people—are protected through tougher bail laws tougher parole laws and tougher sentencing laws whether they are being victimised in the community in their families or online.We know it is working. We know that more Kiwis are voting with their feet and returning home. We know that more students are getting National Certificate of Educational Achievement level 2 thanks to the good work of Hekia Parata. We know that more people are getting elective surgery. We know that more children are getting immunised. We know that our communities are safer. We have the lowest crime rates that New Zealand has had since 1978.This is a Government that protects New Zealand families that keeps them in work and that keeps incomes rising. Over the last few years we have raised more than $16 million from the offender levy alone to help 6000 victims a year. This is a Government that is providing for New Zealand families that is creating action while Andrew Little’s Labour Party continues to do nothing and has no vision for this country.