Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): E Te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. We accept the politics that we think we deserve and it's becoming kind of obvious that it's election year. As somebody inside this House I must say that I can absolutely empathise with members of the public who see the kind of argy-bargy that goes on in this place and decide to turn away. In fact oftentimes when we're sat in here and we look up at the public gallery and we look at the faces of young people school children it becomes immediately obvious that the behaviour that transpires here would not be acceptable in classrooms across the country. So it therefore feels somewhat quite far removed from the supposed solutions that we in this House are empowered to create.This is a House of Representatives. I'm very earnest and talk about this all time but I think it is important that we do reflect on the fact that all of the 120 seats in this place are a representation of the votes of New Zealanders. Of a possible more than 3.2 million New Zealanders only 2.6 million of those New Zealanders decided to vote in 2017. Those more than half a million New Zealanders could have changed everything. So I really want to drive home that we accept the politics that we think we deserve.The Greens believe that all New Zealanders deserve a home—and by that I don't just mean four walls and a roof over your head; it is more than just a warm dry stable place to rest your head. Home is somewhere where you can put down your roots where you can create your history. Home is where you can walk or cycle through the streets in safety any time of the day because you know your neighbours because everybody has enough to get by and because there is an unashamedly proud humble and shared sense of community. Home is enough shared kai for everyone a space to test ideas and to communicate difference of opinion respectfully. Home is where you build opportunities on a solid foundation of belonging. It is where you raise and educate your kids. It is the trees that you point out as have being yay high when you were a kid that have grown as you have. It is the soundtrack of native birds—our birds that don't exist anywhere else in the world—that emphasise the beauty of quiet moments. Home is the legacy that we create to hand down to the next generation. Our tamariki and their tamariki are entitled to clean water to fresh air to a stable climate and to locally produced food as much as they will eventually be entitled to grandma's earrings.Our home is Aotearoa New Zealand. Our home was founded nearly 160 years ago when tangata whenua signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi which notably was a rather different document to the Treaty of Waitangi that was put forward by the colonial English. These two very distinct architects had different blueprints in mind for the house that we would build and we haven't done a sterling job at reconciling either of those plans in the century and a half since. That fundamental blunder has meant a number of New Zealanders—largely tangata whenua Māori—weren't factored into the design of this House. But the political pendulum has swung between building a longer table and removing seats in a punitive game of musical chairs. We are a richer country than we have ever been but that wealth and access to it is more unequal than ever.When New Zealanders turn to opt out of the political scenarios that are unfolding before their very eyes they give this silly business—which turns into unequal access and opportunities within our home—permission to continue. As Margaret Mead put it Never doubt a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; [because] indeed it is the only thing that ever has."I'm incredibly proud of the work that our small but mighty caucus of eight Green MPs of 120 in this place have achieved. Not everyone yet has the home that the Greens believe all New Zealanders in Aotearoa New Zealand deserve. It is a home worth fighting for. The decision to build it rests in the hands of New Zealanders come this September with the general election. I implore New Zealanders who are unhappy with the status quo to muck in because they have the opportunity to choose the politics that they deserve. Kia ora."