Dowie SarahSARAH DOWIE (National—Invercargill): Oh thank you Mr Speaker. It's an absolute pleasure to rise and take a call in this debate in support of our fantastic leader. Let's face it it would be career limiting not to but I know that my colleague sitting beside me here my colleague and friend Mr Matt Doocey who is our whip will certainly pass on the message that I am a supporter.No matter where you sit you can certainly not deny the fact that Simon Bridges has got a mammoth work ethic. The fact that he completed over 70 meetings from Kaitāia through to Bluff over the period of a couple of months certainly goes directly to the heart of that. I watched him in action in Invercargill and in Bluff back in May and all I can say—and I hope that he doesn't mind but he certainly is very John Key - esque. He's approachable he's down to earth and he's inspiring. The fact that he could speak to the business people of Invercargill and then go to the Bluff Oyster and Food Festival and talk to tourists and to Bluffees" and enjoy himself certainly goes towards the man's appealability to a range of different New Zealanders and he will lead us forward and in good stead. Certainly when you look at the polls we are in very good heart.I want to detail a little bit more about those meetings and certainly I would start with the business sector in Invercargill where we had a packed out crowd to the Kelvin Hotel. About 150 business people came to lunch to hear from our leader to talk about the economy and to talk about the so-called Government that calls itself one of the most open and transparent of all time but is certainly failing in this respect. And when you look at its failure it's because of—well it's because of a number of things but it's also because the decision-making process is made on a whim. There's no consideration as to the ramifications or the unforeseen consequences of policy that is made on the hoof and this is purely because it was a lazy Opposition of nine years that did no work back in that time and found itself in Government because of again another whim of the Rt Hon Winston Peters who signed up to this three-headed monster. Now they find themselves in Government having to make policy on the hoof.Uncertainty in the business community is right at the forefront for New Zealanders. If you look at our business confidence surveys while in Australia they're at a 20-year high we're at one of our lowest with respect to business confidence and it's because of all these mooted changes and industrial reforms—the abandonment of the 90-day trial this forced unionism and all of these changes that are taking us back to the 1970s. Employers simply don't know where they're at. I can tell you in Invercargill with a very low unemployment rate when we are scraping the bottom of the barrel to get good workers that 90-day trial goes a long way to testing out somebody that may have come off benefit and wants a hand up but also those second-chance people that have entered into a career and no longer want to be in that career; they want to try something new. The 90-day trial gives employers the opportunity to test that person out and give them a fresh start in a new area in which perhaps they don't necessarily have specific skills but transferable skills to work in that industry. So what you see is that employers now because of that uncertainty are not taking on that extra person. They're not taking the chance and therefore business confidence is plummeting.Simon then went on to a public meeting that had about 300-odd people—350—in the Windsor Community Church. It was a fantastic meeting. He got asked about many different things from the economy to law and order there was some shark cage diving in there and obviously welfare. He was able to answer the breadth of those questions very easily and articulate our vision for New Zealand in the 2020s—and it certainly isn't one of deficit. It certainly is one of thinking about policy and the ramifications of that because we want all New Zealanders to succeed. We want people that are beneficiaries if they are able to get off benefit and into work and we want all people to succeed in education and in environment."