Seymour DavidHon DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I don't claim to be a person of great faith or a follower of organised religion but I have much respect for what the Judaeo-Christian belief system has done for Western civilisation and I've been studying a little bit. I've been learning about something. I've been learning about the Sorrowful Mysteries and I thought as I learnt about the Sorrowful Mysteries about Chris Hipkins. As I watched the Labour Party cheer on Kieran McAnulty I thought about the sorrowful mysteries of Christopher Hapless" Hipkins. The sorrowful mystery that first comes to mind is this new thing: a capital income tax. You see they've learnt nothing from the last six years. They've learnt nothing about saving money. They continue to repeat the damaging trope that saps the self-reliance and spirit of New Zealand. They tell their would-be supporters "Your problems are caused by someone else's success but if you vote for Labour we'll take their money and give it to you." Well that is a sorrowful mystery—it never works. It never has worked anywhere because the only thing that socialism has done for the poor is given them more company wherever it's been tried. Then there is the sorrowful mystery of an oil and gas accord—an energy accord offered by the Labour Party that is—with no oil and gas in it. You see they say they want to reach across the aisle and cooperate on securing energy for New Zealanders on those cold winter nights when the lakes are low and the wind doesn't blow—oh but no no no; it cannot be done with natural gas. It cannot be done with the industry they've decimated in Taranaki which means there are now not enough people in the industry to keep the gas pressure up regardless of finds by the way—no no no no. It is a sorrowful mystery: a promise to cooperate but not to use the fuel that will actually work. Then there's the sorrowful mystery of Christopher "Hapless" Hipkins—the No. 3 one—that Māori never ceded sovereignty and that we are a society where some citizens follow the law and respect the Government and others are somehow living in a parallel society. It's as if they've learnt nothing from the last six years of dividing our country as a partnership between races with some people having some rights and other people having others based on their ancestry. But Mr Speaker you'll be pleased to know I won't spend too long on the sorrowful mysteries of Christopher "Hapless" Hipkins because I've also discovered the joyful mysteries of the ACT Party in Government and the first joyful mystery is the cutting of tax and the saving of money through careful spending and the slashing of Government waste. No longer do we throw money at every problem and hope that some of it sticks to the wall while creating inflation for hard-up Kiwi families. No you see ACT Ministers in the Cabinet across the Government arguing to spend less and arguing for the Government to tighten its belt just as people in firms and farms and families have had to do for the last five years while Labour engaged in wanton spending. Then there's the joyful mystery of slashing the red tape. Right across the Government you see the active ACT Party whether it is in early childhood education centres where people are drowning—they say "All I want to do is help children learn and reach their potential and all I actually do is live in fear of the Ministry of Education." There's the significant natural areas the nationalisation of farms—but only if you do conservation do you lose your property right. That's going. I see Brooke van Velden is sorting out where so many have failed the Holidays Act the Health and Safety at Work Act and contract law so you can actually give one New Zealander a job on behalf of another without being tied up in red tape and regulation. Then there is the final joyful mystery of having the courage to start an uneasy conversation about the framework and understanding around our nation's founding document that will truly allow each of us to live in this beautiful land with equal rights by birth or legal immigration. No matter who your ancestors were you were joined together in this country under universal humanity with the same basic rights and what underpins these joyful mysteries of the ACT Party? It's the simple idea that each of us deserves chances and choices to be able to make our way in the world and flourish in the way that we choose to make a difference in our own lives and help make sure that when each of us can succeed in our own way all of us can succeed as a wonderful country and the best place to live on the entire planet. Thank you Mr Speaker and God bless."