Davidson MaramaGENERAL DEBATEMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.Malo ni tau huhuga a te Takitaki Fono. We here have great privilege in this House. We have the honour of standing in this place and representing the values and aspirations of our communities—our communities that put faith and trust in us to govern. And this Parliament has sadly let people down. [Interruption] I'm thinking of young New Zealanders growing up in Manurewa Morrinsville or Motueka who are watching on today and becoming angry and disillusioned by our conduct here—including the conduct here right now particularly coming from across that bench there. I'm thinking of women on minimum working wage trying to raise their families. I'm thinking of our migrant communities who are a part of our society and have made Aotearoa their home.So the Green Party is calling for a sea change in how we do things here in this place. We have long called for this sea change because collectively we are the people's representatives and as their representatives we have the duty to work together and solve those big challenges of our time. But we are seeing our politics being dragged into the gutter. We must own up to this toxic environment and we must change it. New Zealand values have had a bit of a spotlight on them of late and as a country we are asking: how do we truly value diversity? How do we truly value democracy? How do we ensure strong true relationships between communities and us as politicians? And this is why we have to act: because the trust and confidence in our politicians is at risk. And we rely on that. We need that confidence to do our work. Our democracy is at risk. Our relevance is at risk. So the Green Party is calling for the extreme adversarial politics of this place to come to an end. We need a politics of partnership—Hon David Bennett: Give her a hug Chris.MARAMA DAVIDSON: —that builds consensus on those very issues that—SPEAKER: Order! Order! Mr Bennett your interjections are far too frequent and frankly given the context of recent times are just offensive. They will stop.MARAMA DAVIDSON: Mr Speaker a case in point. Mr Bennett we actually—SPEAKER: No no. Sorry. I've just dealt with the member. You can't deal with it again.MARAMA DAVIDSON: Thank you Mr Speaker. I would urge all the members being quite vocal in the House here today that we've actually got to get on and do the real work in this place: climate change poverty equity of outcomes for women for Māori and Pacific for migrant people for people with a disability and for people on low incomes. The Green Party is renewing its calls for all MPs to agree—how about this—to a code of conduct of our behaviour as we have in the past: a code of conduct for right here for how we behave in the House today; not 20 years ago but today. And the Green Party will be calling for our MMP democracy to be strengthened in line with the recommendations of the 2012 Electoral Commission review and we will be calling for major reform as I have been doing this week of political donations so we can get big money out of politics and restore the balance of power in our democracy.We know that these issues have long been a problem in our politics recently coming to light with searing searing detail and we cannot go back to that as business as usual. That is not an option. We have to change. New Zealanders are calling for that change.To those listening I wouldn't blame people for being put off this system. I totally get that but I'm asking people to not switch off because it is the powers that are relying on people to turn off in order to continue to get away with the bad behaviour in this place. So turning away will only keep the abuse of that power strong. This country is worth more than that. It's worth more than gutter politics. There is a way that we can bring integrity back into this House in the way that we work and behave. Thank you Mr Speaker.