Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): Tēnā koe tēnā koutou e te Whare. I just want to acknowledge that this is probably my last speech in this term in Parliament and therefore I also acknowledge the honour and privilege of serving my home and community of Auckland Central. I'd just to say we've got some unfinished business so I do hope that I'm returned with that honour and privilege.As many speeches before me have alluded to a lot of our attention is turning full steam to the election campaign out there and reflecting on the sentiment and the anger and the anxiety and the exhaustion that New Zealanders are feeling within our communities and I've got to say it's incredibly gutting as a result that so many politicians in here are willing to exploit exactly that exhaustion and that fear. New Zealanders deserve a Parliament and a Government that leads with bold vision and values and implements that through evidence-based policy. I've heard a lot of talk this afternoon in this place about this economy and every political party seems to bring it up as though it was handed to us on these stone tablets by the gods. But this economy is a set of rules created by people in this place in the past and to this day. We do not live in a game of Monopoly which as I've said in this place before was invented by a woman called Elizabeth Magie in the early 1900s to teach children about the dangers of an economy that is premised on land speculation. In the words of Jeanette Fitzsimons we have an economy that at present exploits both people and the planet but it doesn't have to be this way. We can instead put in place rules that recognise the inherent dignity of people and the planet—settings that don't actually run all of us into the ground in a trickle-down dog-eat-dog race to the bottom. Here's the state of our economy: the Government commissioned advice and published it at the beginning of this year which showed us that the top 311 families in this country hold more wealth combined than the bottom 2.5 million New Zealanders. That is not an accident. It is a logical consequence of a tax system which is set up—and we know it is set up now by virtue of that reporting—to see that those on the wealthiest end of the spectrum pay an effective tax rate less than half of that of the average New Zealander. What that means is that New Zealanders who on average hold a wealth of $276 million pay a lower effective tax rate—less than half the effective tax rate—of our firefighters of our teachers of our nurses and of those who are the supposed average everyday hardworking New Zealanders that I'm assuming that the National Party invokes.Now we can unlock those resources that we already have here to unleash the potential of every New Zealander like the Government did in the 1930s and 1940s in response to the Great Depression. Confronted with those crises it decided to fairly tax those who had profited handsomely during a time of hardship for many and instituted the public infrastructure which has subsequently been degraded to this day. They instituted public holidays and the 40-hour work week and they instituted our public healthcare system but they didn't quite go far enough in ensuring that everybody had access to free dental care or a guaranteed minimum income or to ensure that we had a carbon-neutral economy which are precisely the propositions that the Greens are putting on the table this election.Now why is it that we're hearing nothing from the two legacy parties about the necessary transformation to meet the issues of our time? Well I've got to say that it's probably got something to do with how there is no incentive for change when you are profiting from the status quo when you are intent on gridlocking the window—the Overton window—of what is politically possible. That's what we saw today from the National Party unfortunately. We saw a tax proposal which sought to offer tinkering and speculative tinkering at that. I just think it's important to put on the record what is on the table here. A retired couple under the National Party's plan would receive an extra $13 per week from the Nats but would receive $32 per week from the Greens. A family with two kids at primary school with a combined income of $130000 would receive $50 per week under the National Party but would receive $188 per week under the Greens. They've also promised to double the price of public transport for people with low incomes and disabilities. They've also promised—kind of—a bit of the climate dividend but if you read between the lines and get into the detail of their policy document what you'd find is that instead they're looking to raid the emissions trading scheme revenue raised into the Climate Emergency Response Fund to pay for their tax cuts which disproportionately benefit those at the top end of town and that's not even getting into the heroic assumptions around foreign buyers. They have the gall to tell us that they care about house prices but they can't even say they want them to come down. New Zealand can choose transformation this election and it looks like a party vote Green.