Lee Denise; Rurawhe AdrianDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. The primary purpose of this member's bill is to rewrite the set of objectives considered by the Minister of Education when issuing a statement of National Education and Learning Priorities. Now on face value this sounds like it would be a hugely important bill. Changing these objectives would have the potential to result in a major shift in the direction and the performance of this country's education system and so you would expect a large amount of attention and interest.I have a theory as to why this is actually not being hailed as a groundbreaking bill. It's well-known that on the other side of the House there's no love for trickle-down policies when it comes to economics but it seems that the approach to legislation from Labour Ministers is trickling down to all new Government backbenchers. This bill like so many others introduced by the Government either continues on the good work of the last National Government or it makes such minor changes to legislation that although well-meaning and made with good intent and all that it has little effect on the results seen by real people and real children going through the education system.It's like the Child Poverty Reduction Bill. It sets targets but it doesn't say how we're going to get there. How about the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill? We're into the big leagues with those minor changes. And my personal favourite the Legislation Bill? How will the changes in this current bill impact on children going through school or parents taking their young ones to early childhood providers?Do you want to hear about the real impact? This is where it is: closing down charter schools. Have you seen the difference that charter schools have made to kids who have been struggling in the State school system? How about—here's the impact—scrapping national standards which is the way parents track their kids individually and nationally? So far this Government's education policy has consisted of removing and restricting—removing and restricting. We are yet to see the positive constructive and inspirational policy that we've heard about during the campaign.This Government is at the beginning of their term. They've scrapped and they've fought and they've bargained their way to get there with two other parties. After nine years in Opposition it's time for the power of three to unleash the power of dozens of MPs into the member's bill biscuit tin eat their way into grunty lawmaking take on all the wrongs that they feel they've been subjected to and make a meal of the gaps in education.Instead this is what we get and I'm going to quote it. A change to the Education Act of 1989—this is what's up here tonight. They want to change the abilities and attributes of young people from resilience determination confidence and creative and critical thinking:" to "resilience determination confidence creative and critical thinking and to become lifelong learners:". What's that? Four more words. Change "good social skills and the ability to form good relationships:" to "[good] social skills and the ability to form positive relationships"—swap out "good" for "positive". This is real groundbreaking stuff.We're on the first reading of this bill but I find myself eminently looking forward to my own colleague Simeon Brown's psychoactive substances bill. May the House take note of the word "substance". The National Party will not be supporting this bill. We're looking for some more grunt and a better meal out of that biscuit tin. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Jan Tinetti—five minutes in reply."