Russell DeborahDr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): Mr Speaker let me begin by acknowledging the work of all the emergency workers around the country yesterday. We had a very peaceful day in Wellington. The rain was falling straight down which is very unusual here—no wind but it did pick up by the evening. But elsewhere in the country people were working hard all day working hard all night and working hard again on into today to look after their neighbours and to keep themselves safe. There were about 1300 calls to emergency services so our congratulations to all those people who worked so hard. We live on the edge in this country—close to the edge—and we need to be prepared for those disasters. The people who worked yesterday showed us how it's done and our thanks to them.There is another group of people living on the edge in this country at the moment. It's somewhat sad as I look across the House at the shattered shivering shards of the National Party—shattered into factions shivering in fear because they don't know what's coming and shards flaked off useful for nothing except perhaps as tokens for counting the votes. They are factionalised and split.For years and years they told us that they were united. They told us that they were holding together but it turns out to have been paper-thin. There are deep fissures in that party—five of them in fact that we know of so far. It's quite unclear as to which unknown fissure is going to come out of the cracks. You know we've got Amy Adams and Simon Bridges—or Who?"—who have been dodging interviews with the media. There's no one endorsing them in the mainstream media and it's not quite sure who else might be endorsing them either. It's quite clear that they are no match for our own media-friendly PM who never refuses an interview. I don't know why they think they're putting themselves forward.Then of course we have Mark Mitchell and Steven Joyce who came out of the blocks late. I'm not sure if they've got any support at all. I think possibly neither of them can count. I mean that's old evidence in the case of Mr Joyce—possibly 11.7 billion-year-old evidence—and then there's Mark Mitchell who thinks that two words equal one. I'm going to give them a hint when it comes to counting and it's something that all these invisible candidates need to remember: your imaginary friends don't have a vote.Now of course Judith Collins—well she's probably got no delusions about how many friends she's got. She's counted them all up and figured that she'd better come out of the block straight away with the blunderbuss approach—sweep them all away in her path.It's an unedifying group of candidates and I'm sure it will be an unedifying spectacle in the next week. There they are: divided self-obsessed dragging themselves into fighting in contumely. It is such a contrast with this side of the House a side of the House that is a united team with a leader and three parties working together for the good of all New Zealanders.And what have we achieved working together? You know we've been accused this afternoon of the light and fluffy approach. But I tell you: is this list of achievements light and fluffy? We're helping families. We have passed our Families Package and it's going to help about 385000 families. That's not fluffy; that is committed work for New Zealanders. We have passed the extension of paid parental leave so now parents will get 26 weeks' paid leave. That's not light and fluffy; that's a real achievement for parents. We are increasing the minimum wage to $16.50. I guarantee you that minimum wage workers don't think that is light and fluffy. We are tackling the housing crisis that that divided lot on the other side ignored for nine long years. That is not light and fluffy; that is serious action to help New Zealanders. We have restarted the New Zealand Superannuation Fund contributions—that's serious money; nothing light and fluffy about it—making up for the $20 billion of foregone profits in the nine long years of that team over there. We're getting health back on track. We're getting that mental health inquiry going and we're making sure we've got that medical cannabis legislation in place.And just today we have announced a major review of the way we do education in this country. The old approach has been there for 30 years. It was time for something fresh and new and solid—a real Government a real team that is achieving real things for New Zealanders. Thank you Mr Speaker."