Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): E Te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I firstly just want to start my contribution on behalf of the Green Party today in this split call addressing some of the concerns raised by Barbara Kuriger the speaker just before me being primarily those around climate change. She was simultaneously saying that what we do won't change anything but then also saying that we're world leaders. I just really want people to inspect that because you can't have it both ways. If we want to be world leaders here if we want to inspire others to come up to our standards we have to keep leading the world and we don't get there by falling behind the mark. With regard to the context of this Budget as many before me have already spoken to the context has entirely shifted to where we were months ago. A lot of people right now are talking about future generations and they are harking back to the situation that we saw ourselves in as a country and indeed as a world and a global economy in the 1930s centring around the Great Depression. There it's interesting to investigate that we saw a similar mobilisation of governmental political and parliamentary forces to rise to the challenge that was being faced particularly with the creation of what was arguably the world's first safety net recognising a manifestation of the social contract that all of us who live in this country will look after others when hard times come upon them. Unfortunately it is the case that over the past few decades subsequent to that introduction it has been dismantled by Governments following it. However what has been highlighted in the context of COVID-19 is what is possible and what can be achieved particularly those things that we have been told for so long are impossible such as flexible working for those with disabilities or those who are sole parents such as housing of the homeless and such as the raising of core benefits. All of these things that we were told were impossible happened literally almost overnight and what that has done is expose that these issues have always been solely an issue of political willpower. So on the issue of the economy as it's been bandied about I really want to begin to unpack that because in the words of the environmentalist Paul Hawken—and I quote—We have an economy that steals from the future sells it in the present and calls it GDP." There are a lot of speakers throughout this debate who have invoked future generations and who have invoked the need for us to sacrifice as we move into the next few years to pay back the debt that is coming down the pipeline. I really again think that that is deserving of going under the microscope because the economy isn't a sentient being; it is in fact the rules and the organisation that we place on all of us and the environment that we live in. The economy doesn't suffer; we do. What that demonstrates is the importance of the social contract and the importance of different regulatory and legislative machinery that we are able to mobilise as a Government as a Parliament as leaders in this country to change the way that things like inequality are presently playing out. On the point around future generations I really just want to call across the House across both the Government and the Opposition benches and ask for people to really think about the kind of rhetoric that they are invoking here because we are simultaneously hearing people ask about future generations and the debt that will befall them. But if we're really concerned about future generations perhaps we should stop trying to speak on behalf of them or for them and speak to them about what matters because when you speak directly to our tamariki and to our rangatahi what you will hear is quite different to the issues that are regularly bandied about in this ivory tower. In fact it is things like climate action which I am appalled to hear certain members now asking to delay so that we can supposedly service this economy which again we have unpacked is mythology. So too we would be caring about students. We would be removing all barriers. Notably this Budget does remove those barriers for certain trade training but we have the opportunity to go further. Kia ora."