Reti Shane: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeReti Shane: General Debate[Sitting date: 16 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6690. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Dr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): It is a pleasure to speak today on the 1-year anniversary of the general election and talk about the superb progress this Government has made. It is also a privilege to be part of a Government that has brought forward the gains from the past and refreshed them with some knowledge going forward. There are so many things to highlight. This time last year the majority of children under 13 were paying full general practice fees and today they are not. I am hearing from my colleagues and from constituents that this has been very well received. This time last year people were paying higher ACC motor vehicle levies and today they are saving up to $130 a year. Paid parental leave increased from 14 to 16 weeks and eventually it will increase to 18 weeks and hospices are receiving $20 million in additional funding compared with last year. This has certainly been noticed in my region and my electorate in Whangarei and Northland.Whangarei and the Northland electorate are seeing the benefits this year of a John Key Government. The latest ANZ Regional Trends report shows that economic activity had the strongest increase in the Northland region for the past quarter. If we look over the past year Whangarei and Northland had the third-highest annual growth rate behind Auckland and the Bay of Plenty. Northland also posted the strongest employment growth of all the regions in that quarter.I have heard the noise from New Zealand First members today and I have heard the noise from them before. In fact about 6 months ago probably on 9 March at about 11.45 a.m. actually I was on my way into the mall in Whangarei and I heard a similar noise. In fact I was quite worried by it; I thought someone had been hurt. So I sped up a little bit—I was going to buy lunch; supporting local businesses—because I thought maybe someone had been in the mall walking their pets or something. And I was right: it was Winston and the boys. You see it was the by-election time and in the middle of the mall is this boom box and out of this boom box is coming the New Zealand First anthem: “Help is on its Way”. It is an excellent song written in 1977 by Glenn Shorrock the founder of Little River Band.I have written a few songs myself for my own pleasure. They are nowhere near as good as this song—nowhere near as good as this song. This is an excellent song. What I have learnt though as an amateur composer is that the final version is never what you started with initially. One starts with a song name and at each point it captures the mood and the moment and then the song progresses and the name changes also. So I was interested whether this song “Help is on its Way” the New Zealand First anthem had other names that captured the essence of New Zealand First. So what I did was I contacted the composer Glenn Shorrock. I called him in Australia I spoke with his management team and I asked him that exact question. I asked “What other names has ‘Help is on its Way’ been known by?” because I am thinking that every name change and each version of the song is a version of New Zealand First.It may be that the first title represented a New Zealand First leader’s statement but unfortunately Michael Jackson had taken “Man in the Mirror” so we needed to keep on moving. Maybe the next version had a song title that is the New Zealand First leader’s assessment of the party position—maybe something like “It’s My Party and I’ll”—Hon Members: —“Cry if I Want To.”Dr SHANE RETI: Intuitive—I did not even need to say it. We all got it. And maybe the penultimate title is the leader’s strategy for his deputy—“To Do Ron Ron”.This New Zealand First anthem interestingly is also the soundtrack to a movie. Who would have thought—a Seth Rogen 2009 movie called Observe and Report which is about an egocentric gentleman and a collection of people who bumble their way through life. At 1 hour 3 minutes and 8 seconds into this movie the New Zealand First anthem plays. But I have figured this out: it is actually a cunning plan from New Zealand First and I want to commend those members for it. Their choice of song and their choice of movie is actually a cunning way to save the taxpayer money. How this works is that they will be able to save on public relations costs on the rating brochures and mail-outs because the movie reviewers of New Zealand First: The Movie will do it for them. That is their cunning plan. The movie reviewers will write the New Zealand First story.So let us have a look at what they wrote about this New Zealand First movie Observe and Report. One of the biggest movie reviewing sites said this: “it has a mean streak and does not cater to all tastes”. Who would have thought? The Sydney Morning Herald review really captures New Zealand First with this: “Much of the movie is just plain vicious. At best it’s sad and grotesque rather than hilarious.” But really you have got to give it to the Guardian. You have got to give it to the English because this is what they said about it: “this charmless heavy-handed and cynical comedy is an uncomfortable experience.” It is an uncomfortable experience for New Zealanders as well. This Government has done well this Government is supporting Northland and Whangarei and I am pleased to be a part of this Government.