Ngaro Alfred: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNgaro Alfred: General Debate[Sitting date: 02 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9307. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALFRED NGARO (National): I can remember a time when I was at a conference and the speaker after the dinner was Gary McCormick and he was telling a story about he and Sam Hunt going on a road trip. As young boys they did this road trip. They surfed from the top of the North Island down to the bottom of the South Island. He was telling the story that when they did this road trip as older men they found a conspiracy. What it was he said was that in every town they went down to that they went through there was a roundabout. They could not believe it. They had substituted traffic lights for roundabouts. Halfway as they got down to Wellington they said: “There’s a conspiracy. The Government of the day is trying to create a conspiracy. It is creating these roundabouts so that rather than getting through a town as quickly as you can to the place you want to be you create a roundabout and people just go round and round and round.”That was the time when he said to us there at that conference that it was about time the Government of that day renamed itself the “Pull Yourself Together Party”. He said: “These guys have got to pull themselves together. They have got to stop going round and round. They have to make some decisions take away the roundabouts and get into the traffic lights.”I hasten to say that that conference was in 2006. The Government of the day that they were speaking about was the Labour Government. And here we are today—the Labour Party should actually be calling itself the “Pull Yourself Together Party”. Guy Williams has written an article about it. Why? Because at the moment Labour just keeps going round and round. It has an inability to be able to make decisions that are really important.I will take an example of one of those decisions. I am actually live on the Labour website and the big thing that it is talking about is the big Kiwi Dream. Here is what it is talking about. It is live and here it is: “We call it the Kiwi dream. It’s a home to call our own. Opportunities for everyone’s kids to succeed no matter where they live. Security and freedom to make our own choices. Pride in our independence …”.I also want to challenge those words to the Labour Party when the partnership the coalition with the ACT Party around partnership schools happened. In South Auckland—let us take Rise UP for instance. What they talked about was this: they wanted the best for their children. That is what your Kiwi Dream label says. They wanted the best opportunities for their children no matter where they lived. They lived in South Auckland but they said: “It doesn’t matter whether our kids live in Remuera or South Auckland they should have the same opportunities.” And here is the punchline. They said: “We want to be independent.”What did the Labour Party say in its press release from Mr Chris Hipkins? He said this: “If the Labour Party comes into power it will do away with partnership schools.” You can go on to your website you can talk about the Kiwi Dream but to the very people who supposedly are your heartland the people from whom you would seek support you are saying no to their kids no to their independence no to the fact that they can achieve what they want by themselves.Is it not interesting that most of those partnership school partnerships are both Māori and Pasifika providers? Why? Because they are turning round and saying this: “You want to talk about the dream?”. They want this dream. And this dream is coming as a reality not under a Labour Government but under a National Government and I have to say that under the coalition with the ACT Party that is what we are doing. We are making a difference.Let us talk about some of those results for some of those Pasifika kids. Labour members can talk about it but in 2008 the number of Pasifika students enrolled in qualifications at Bachelor’s level or higher was 8940. In 2014 it was 13300. Tertiary qualifications are up 75 percent with 7400 in 2000. These are not made up; these are statistics that you can actually get as well. You can seek them if you do the work. There were 12900 Pasifika students in tertiary qualifications. Not only that—as a tradesperson I believe that the investment that we have made in trades is also making a difference.Mr Speaker two more—I know you are asking me to wind up. Course completion rate—74 percent. This is one I am proud of—the fact that we start and we finish. We have raised it up to 74 percent. The completion for Bachelor’s degrees in 2008 was 975; in 2014 it was 1640 a 68 percent increase. I am proud of the fact that we are not a Government that just talks about change; we actually do make changes. We are pragmatic. We actually get on with the business of doing the things that our communities want. You can talk about a dream all you like but guess what? We are the people who make the dream come true. Thank you.