Wood MichaelMICHAEL WOOD (Labour—Mt Roskill): I want to start my adjournment comments with some free hot Yuletide tips for friends on the other side of the Chamber as we head into 2020. The very first one is to say that I don't think we've heard enough about slushies in recent times. We heard a lot about slushies earlier in the year—in fact the Hansard was practically drenched in them—but then it went very quiet on the slushy front. The tip that I've got for them is that it could be very very popular over summer. Sweet cool refreshing—a little bit retro 1990s—and they'll go very well at the barbecues at Judith's house over the summer.The other one that I think we haven't heard enough about recently is Strike Force Raptor. We heard an awful lot about it at the beginning and then things went very very quiet. We think it bombed in the focus groups but I reckon part of it was just about the branding. One of the top branding guys that I've talked to has told me that alliteration can help with these things. So here's my big idea for the National Party: change Strike Force Raptor to Strike Force Stegosaurus". It's completely on brand as well: lumbering Jurassic pea-brained and extinct.I want to acknowledge all colleagues in this House for the contribution that they've made to the working of our parliamentary democracy this year. We disagree on a lot of things but we do have a functional Parliament and that comes down to the good will of members of parties and of other colleagues in this House. That's important to acknowledge.I acknowledge all the staff in this place who make our Parliament work—the people who clean cook deliver keep us safe and tend to the grounds.I acknowledge you too Mr Speaker. There's a lot I could say but won't say but I will say that you have made real efforts this year that I think will be seen as important in years to come to make this a safer more inclusive and more humane House of Representatives.This is a year of pride for members of this Government. I speak particularly as a Labour member. We believe that our parliamentary democracy can be harnessed to deliver social and economic justice for the people of our country. The progress that we have made in this area has been significant.I want to have a big call out to the Hon James Shaw and the achievement of the zero carbon Act this year—world-leading legislation that takes on one of the great intergenerational issues of our time. We can also note that our Parliament did do that together. That's an achievement we can be proud of.I'm proud of the fact this has been a Government that has stood up for the dignity of decent work by lifting the minimum wage this year by improving workers' rights by improving rights to equal pay and by improving people's access to the living wage. Those are the values of this Government: dignified decent work for all New Zealanders.I want to shout out to the Minister of Justice the Hon Andrew Little for an achievement that was actually I think a bit overlooked and that was the passing of the Criminal Cases Review Commission Bill earlier this year—a bill and an Act now that is fundamentally about ensuring that we have access to justice for those who are being wrongly imprisoned in our system and face deep injustices. The Child Poverty Reduction Act—we now have a Budget in New Zealand that every year will hold this Parliament to account for what we are doing for the most vulnerable children in our country and will drive action to reduce child poverty. And under this Government we are on track to lift tens of thousands of children out of poverty. We are very proud of that on this side of the House.Finally I am incredibly proud of the work that has gone on to follow through on the commitments that we have made to the communities and the families of the men from Pike River. That work has been incredibly important. We deserve to know what happened there. Once again I acknowledge the Minister the Pike families and the Pike River Recovery Agency for all of the work that they have done in that area.Finally I acknowledge our Prime Minister whose leadership this year has been inspiring has been positive and has taken us through some very dark times. I will never forget 16 March when a cross-party delegation of MPs from this Parliament journeyed down to Christchurch. She walked with us into a room—500 or 600 families of those in the two mosques; people whose grief and emotion and confusion and fear was bouncing off the walls; people who just did not know what had happened. She stood there and they knew that they had a leader who was with them and would walk with them. That is the leadership that we need.Next year is an election year and on this side of the House we are here to win for the people that we represent. We intend to go out and campaign and win with a focus on truth with a belief that it is our vision for the future that counts and with a conviction that it is right for all of us to go hard to win but that we must also hold to decent standards and human values as we undertake that general election campaign next year. By God we are going to go hard to win and win we will but we will do it on the right way on this side of the House.Merry Christmas to all and may the Advent values of hope peace joy and love be with all members of this House and your families this season. Thank you Mr Speaker."