Collins Judith: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCollins Judith: General Debate[Sitting date: 12 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5713. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): My goodness that Grant Robertson is good is he not? He is good. He is so good. Why is he not the leader of the Labour Party? He has tried three times and three times he has been rejected and I think it is because he will never make it with women because he calls me “Ginger” when clearly I am blonde. The man just does not get it. Really he is good though is he not? He is so funny. He is so good that he is helping Andrew Little with his strategy and it is all going so well. In fact I think Grant Robertson is one of those people who has shown some resilience. He has tried three times to be the leader of the Labour Party—Grant Robertson: No.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: No? It is two—twice? Oh sorry; I have pre-empted the third time. You see everyone says I can see into the future.What I have been able to say is that resilience is something that we are seeing in the dairying industry that we are seeing in the country and that we are also seeing in industry. I guess I feel very strongly for the dairying industry because I come from a family of dairy farmers for generations and I know that people are going through really hard times particularly those farmers who have bought the neighbour’s property or have actually gone and upskilled and done all sorts of things to actually build their business. But I would say to them this: this is a temporary issue. It is not going to destroy the economy. It is going to be really hard for some individual farmers and they are going to need all of that resilience but do you know what? Resilience is a great thing. I am apparently quite qualified to talk about it. I have heard that. People keep telling me I am resilient. My other good friend Shane Jones—he is resilient. I am looking forward to him coming back to New Zealand First and taking over from Mr Winston Peters and I can see Ron Mark is looking forward to that too but not as much as my friend Tracey Martin. We are all looking forward to resilience coming back. Resilience has a time of coming back and just doing you over but it should be fun.What I want to talk about today is the fact that this economy that we have in New Zealand has shown real resilience. Dairying is important but it is actually 5 percent of our economy. It is not the 95 percent that you would think it is if you listened to “Radio Albania” also known as Radio New Zealand National—Hon Member: Oh is that racist?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —but it is actually a much smaller part of the economy than it used to be. And no that is not racist; it is actually true. Actually it is a nice compliment to Radio New Zealand National because it is so ethnically diverse.I thought that what we would want to talk about today in terms of resilience is the meat industry. The meat industry now is at the highest level of exports it has ever been—$2.8 billion of exports of our red meat. That is so much better than it was maybe 10 or 20 years ago. This is an industry that has been in decline and now it is improving. Look at the kiwifruit industry. Wow! You just have to read the Sunday Star-Times article I wrote the other day.Hon Trevor Mallard: Come on stop trying to get into Cabinet.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: It is an industry that has gone from strength to strength. Talking about resilience let us look at the Hon Trevor Mallard. By goodness is he not resilient!David Bennett: The worst Speaker ever.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Well I would never say that Mr Bennett. That is a terrible thing to say.Of course I always look at my electorate of Papakura an electorate that is going from strength to strength not in—no actually that is in no small part because this Government is actually leading the country. This electorate has special housing areas for Africa frankly—oh I must not offend New Zealand First members; they will get upset. There is $280 million for the widening of the southern motorway between Hill Road and Papakura. We have the electrification of railways going through. We have a huge increase in population. In the Papakura electorate we are looking at 160000 people going in there in the next 20 years. That is Hamilton coming into our area. This is a massive opportunity for the Auckland south area. It is an electorate of resilience and of a hard-working MP. I would say look at tourism. There were 3 million visitors last year from overseas. That is a record number.This economy is resilient. It is moving very well. It is actually continuing to go ahead and we should not let a significant part of the economy pull everything else down. This is a country with promise hope and a future unlike the Labour Party which is utterly hopeless.