Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister for Oceans and Fisheries): Some people who desire to be stars are better staying behind the stable door. In the animal kingdom a mayfly is an insect that lasts for one day; it is born and then it perishes and that will be the outcome for this bill—it will be addressed it will be voted upon and it will go the way of the mayfly.But we should acknowledge the honourable member and the Māori Party for bringing to the attention of the House the importance of the cost of living. It may actually have occurred to them that so much of what they've had to say has been copied out of the New Zealand First manifesto because—now let me think. Please highlight that the Māori Party like magpies have sought to take shiny items from the New Zealand First manifesto. But manifestos are dynamic; they evolve they change depending on the vicissitudes and the challenges of the time and we have inordinately serious challenges of an economic character which is why we need to draw the line at supporting legislation that is vague. It'll be virtually impossible to ascertain is cocoa chocolate is chocolate cocoa? It could be that in Australia there are distinctions but we've been advised on numerous occasions that their GST is not as clean and it's not as rational as ours.But what are the other ways that we can actually deal with the problem? I think this is where the Māori Party is woefully short of anything that can be contributed other than the predictable narrative that it's all the fault of Captain Cook. So let's focus our attention on what the specific interventions are that can be done and actually remind our own people in terms of te ao Māori who come from a rich tradition of ahuwhenua—of agriculture—who come from a rich tradition of food gathering who come from a rich tradition of food production much of which has been allowed to slip away as the sense of agency has been stripped from modern Māori that many of them have been conditioned to look to the tax system to look to Parliament to look to Wellington to address a number of the challenges of how to eat in a healthy vein how to look after themselves and how to make smart choices about lifestyle. Regulation tax system and Parliament will never address or never replace the sense of responsibility. Of course that's actually what rangatiratanga means: taking responsibility for the lifestyle choices that you decide to make. Don't bother looking in dusty heaps of manuscripts in museums or old photos on the wall of the marae; think about the people today and what responsibilities they have to ensure that their tamariki their family and their own sense of ownership to grow your own kai to support kaupapa such as māra kai and mahinga kai.Now in the month of April I will be returning back to Tai Tokerau and the thick end of a quarter of an acre of not only kūmara but native peruperu potatoes—a number of names that I won't repeat in the Whare because they could be misconstrued but that's a small example of how there's a practical response to relying on convenience food. Don't make it easier; make it more challenging for people to stand up and take responsibility for lifestyle choices. It's not the total answer but it's a key answer in the sense that the Māori Party is focused on the ability of whānau to feed themselves and clothe themselves. When you bring a child into this world it is your responsibility primarily to look after that child. Secondly don't look to the State or don't deploy weapons of colonisation to overlook the fact the responsibility is not the tax system the responsibility is not Wellington. For those reasons the GST amendments proposed in this bill are going the way of the insect known as the mayfly: haere ki te pō.