Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): At the start of Julie Anne Genter's speech she started off in quite a generous and kind-spirited way talking about how parliamentarians across the House actually agree on a few things that would make New Zealand a better place: that children should not grow up in poverty that we need secure housing that we all agree we need jobs and economic growth and that we need to think about how we protect New Zealand's natural environment. That is actually true. I think all parliamentarians here actually agree when you boil it down on the type of New Zealand we want to live in.Where we disagree is on the methods. Where we disagree is on how we get to that point and too often I think in this House—and actually we hear it a lot from other Green members—members on this side of the House on the Government benches get accused of hating the poor.Julie Anne Genter: I didn't say that.CHRIS BISHOP: You did not say that. That is—Julie Anne Genter: I just said you're not helping them.CHRIS BISHOP: That is my exact point. You did not say that but too often your colleagues say that. Members on this side of the House get accused of hating the poor and of enjoying the fact that people live in poverty and need a helping hand in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. The disagreements are around the methods. So I want to commend Ms Genter for the start of her speech.Around the world the values of openness and multiculturalism and the idea that countries should engage and be interconnected with each other in the world—those values are under attack. Whether or not it is the rise of Trumpism" in the United States with metaphorical and literal walls being built to shut America off from the rest of the world; whether or not it is "Brexit" in the United Kingdom where one of the subtexts of that debate was a rebellion in some ways against migration into the United Kingdom and globalisation; whether or not it is the rise of Pauline Hanson in Australia with quite frankly very alarming and distasteful rhetoric about people of the Muslim faith and other ethnicities; or whether it is the rise of the right in Europe and people like Marine Le Pen in France—the values of multiculturalism and tolerance of engagement with the rest of the world and of being welcoming of foreign capital and labour are in some ways under attack.We are in an interesting time in global history because globalisation I put on record for the House has been manifestly and overwhelmingly a force for good in the world. In the last 15 years extreme poverty has been halved largely due to globalisation. Countries engaging in trade companies and individuals engaging in trade and interconnectedness in the global economy have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in Africa in China in South-east Asia and in poor parts of the world that have for far too long been trapped in a poverty cycle. We need to make the case for globalisation as a force for good but at the same time we also have to be cognisant of the fact that there is angst and disquiet in many communities around the world—in the United Kingdom Australia the States and including New Zealand—from people who perhaps have missed out on the gains of globalisation.That is a challenge for all Governments but it is a challenge that is accepted by this Government. It is a challenge that Bill English Steven Joyce Paula Bennett and the finance team absolutely accept: to take all New Zealanders with us so that we all share in the gains of growth but also realise and be cognisant of the fact that as many speakers on this side of the House point out repeatedly New Zealand's future cannot lie in returning to the 1970s-style Fortress New Zealand economy of that era. It does not lie in putting up the shutters and trying to wall ourselves off and insulate ourselves from the rest of the world. It absolutely must lie in things like trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in free-trade agreements like the one with Korea and like the economic partnership with Taipei. It must lie with interconnectedness with the rest of the world so that our exporters can sell more on the world stage and so that our fast-growing IT companies can get access to markets offshore and sell their products and employ Kiwis who then provide for their families.It has to lie in that because we discovered in the 1970s that trying to subsidise our way to prosperity and trying to put up tariff barriers so that we could protect and defend our domestic industries just led to inefficiency and in the end led to job losses. The transition to being part of the global economy was all the more painful because we denied for far too long that we could do that. We pretended that we could just live behind tariff barriers and live in a world in which we did not need to engage with the rest of the world.The Labour Party led the charge for New Zealand entering the world economy from 1984 onwards. That is its proudest legacy. If Labour stands for nothing else or if Labour is proud of nothing else it should be proud of those changes. The unfortunate reality and the great big divide across the House these days is between who stands for an open confident trading New Zealand and who stands for a return to the politics of the past. I call it the politics of nostalgia because there are a lot of people in New Zealand who have tried to present a revisionist version of history and tried to imply that New Zealand in the 1970s was a nirvana when in reality it was anything but.The Economist magazine says that the big divide in politics these days is between open and closed. It is not about left and right not about rural and urban not about the other traditional dividing lines—conservativism or socialism on the liberal side of the spectrum. The big dividing line is about open and closed and this Government stands on the open side of the ledger. It absolutely stands on the open side of the ledger. Our future lies as an open trading nation that welcomes foreign capital and welcomes foreign migrants to New Zealand and knows that our future lies as David Bennett said earlier in that Asia-Pacific growth hub that we are so connected to. We are an Asian nation and that is where our future lies.It is regrettable that the Labour Party which has such a proud history of opening New Zealand to the world is now opposed to the TPP agreement is increasingly opposed to foreign migration and actually very sadly is resorting to childish and frankly deeply unpleasant stunts like the Chinese names debacle from last year which I think even Phil Twyford regrets. Unfortunately he cannot undo the damage he has done and the hurt he has caused to Chinese communities—the hurt he has caused to people of Chinese backgrounds who have lived in New Zealand for over 150 years. It was Helen Clark who apologised in 2002 to the Chinese for the poll tax and that has all been undone unfortunately—Hon Annette King: Rubbish.CHRIS BISHOP: —by Mr Twyford. Oh Annette King says "Rubbish." Clearly Annette is not going around to events in her electorate. She is clearly clearing the way free for Andrew Little to run in Rongotai because if she had bothered to talk to people in her community she would know that that was deeply offensive to Chinese people—deeply offensive.This is a Budget that continues New Zealand's path to being an open and confident market economy the pathway of the last 30 years. It increases funding for taking advantage of those trade agreements that the New Zealand Government has signed. It funds things like the New Zealand Story which helps our exporters. It increases funding for Education New Zealand so that we can attract international students into New Zealand—a very large export industry for New Zealand. It increases funding for tourism a sector that is going extremely well and welcomes people into New Zealand to take advantage of our natural environment and take advantage of our outdoors. It increases funding for innovation in our economy which is increasingly the motor of our economy—our fast-growing ICT sector and our technology sector like we have out in the Hutt Valley or as I call it Technology Valley. It increases funding for the pre-seed commercialisation fund. It increases funding for science and innovation that increasingly important part of the economy.This is a confident Budget delivered by a confident Government. It is just a shame that parties opposite that have been so strong in the past on an open New Zealand are actually standing up for a closed New Zealand."