Curran ClareHon CLARE CURRAN (Minister of Broadcasting Communications and Digital Media): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Can I say first of all that it's great to see you in the Chair Madam Deputy Speaker especially today along with a woman in the Clerk's seat. It's a great thing to see.I am immensely proud to have been returned as the member for Dunedin South with the strongest party vote since 2005. Across Dunedin it turned comprehensively several shades more red. I'm immensely proud to be a member of the new coalition Government with the support of the Green Party and to be a Cabinet Minister in an active focused empathetic strong Government that is open and transparent and also to be the first woman Cabinet Minister from Dunedin.Chris Bishop: Well done.Hon CLARE CURRAN: Thank you. This is a Government of transformation and it's a Government that's not sitting on its hands. It's not sitting on its hands; it's got a programme of meaningful change and it's getting on with it. We've got fresh ideas every day to solve the problems facing New Zealanders. We've got a 100-day plan which we have made good progress on. You will see more progress Mr Bishop. You will get to speak many times on legislation before the end of the year. We're demonstrating that we are in touch with the issues that are most important to New Zealanders.In the first few weeks we've already made huge strides. We've outlined how we'll stop foreign speculators from buying existing homes negotiated and improved a trade agreement with our Pacific partners reiterated our commitment to equal pay by cancelling National's flawed legislation that would've made pay equity harder for New Zealand women to achieve and we have almost finished progressing that paid parental leave legislation finally through this House. Thank you to Sue Moroney and to Iain Lees-Galloway and to all those women and those groups out there in the community who have pushed this issue for so long.The Ardern Government has been clear that this Government will do things differently—for my part building more trust between citizens and their Government; a vision and a strategic approach using technology as a true enabler for our community; a blue-print for digital inclusion to stop the digital haves and have-nots gap from growing bigger; and setting the framework for the establishment of a full non-commercial public media broadcasting service for all New Zealanders a framework for strengthening citizens' rights in the digital environment. This Government will address both the economic and the social deficits in this country because we won't leave anyone behind. We'll also be modern and we'll be future focused.The last Government—and I think the previous speaker Jonathan Coleman patently demonstrated this—has been living in the past; arrogant and dismissive. They took a build it and we will come" approach to technology. They ignored and entrenched the digital divide which is becoming a new measure of poverty. They've starved public broadcasting and debate. They ignored and diminished citizens' rights. In fact through some of their measures they put citizens' rights at risk through the use of data and they paid utter—utter—lip service to openness and transparency.New Zealand is a fantastic country. I think we all agree with that; I think we all said that when we went out on the stump and talked to people in our communities. But it could be so much better. This Government talks about its record. We've got the highest rate of homelessness in the OECD the highest rate of teen suicide in the OECD home ownership at a 60-year low and people who can't get their operations and can't even get an appointment with their specialist. We've got regions that have been neglected for years we've got dirty rivers and we've got kids that haven't been properly prepared for the jobs of the future.People rightly expect that Government should behave in an open and transparent way where it can. We absolutely support that. We will be absolutely committed to achieving those goals. Our 100-day plan is absolutely focused on the most important priorities: the first year of tertiary education free for young people leaving school going into university doing a trade or doing any other tertiary training programme. This is not just about university. I noted what the previous speaker said which seemed to be very much anti tertiary education. This is transformative; this is about helping to prepare our young people for the jobs of the future. Stopping the sale of State houses—all of the other measures that we have that are preparing this country for the challenges it faces.We've got started; we've started implementing that 100-day plan. We're trying to demonstrate humility kindness and determination. We're absolutely a reformist Government. We believe in fairness innovation and participatory democracy. We're getting on with it. We're getting on with our 100-day plan. This is a Government that will make comprehensive change. We'll do it in a way that is fair and equitable. We will close all of those divides across the country we will measure those divides and provide those measurements and we'll do it in a way that brings the rest of the country with us."