Hughes GarethGARETH HUGHES (Green): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou kia ora. In this general debate I want to speak directly to young New Zealanders. Day in day out you are being told by your parents teachers and society how to act and I want to share some good life advice that I have picked up serving a while in this Parliament. It is all pretty simple common-sense stuff. If you are having a disagreement with someone do not secretly record them on audiotape. That is just creepy and illegal. On the other hand if someone tells you they are secretly recording people but they are saying something different in public you really should speak up. If you do not like someone do not slag them off on a friend's blog and pretend it is not you. That is just cyber-bullying. If you are having an argument with someone about an issue it is best to debate the facts not attack the person. Revealing intimate private data about that person is not winning an argument; that is just being stink.Here is some good advice that has just come out: friends do not spy on friends even if they really really want that flash new overseas job because that is just Groser". If you think you have disappointed someone you have a professional relationship with a sheep farm in the desert is not the best or the cheapest way to make amends—try flowers or chocolate. If you have made a mess clean it up. Do not just change the definition of mess and call it clean—you are not fooling anyone. If there is a crisis do not panic—Hon Maggie Barry: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I understood it was a convention that you are not brought into these sorts of calls and that debate should not be read word for word from a script as if the man was a comic genius—which clearly he is not.Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The Speaker should not be brought into the debate but that is a matter for the Speaker to determine and it is not something that should be raised by any member in this House. It is a robust debate at all times. The member has not crossed any lines and he can certainly continue with his speech.GARETH HUGHES: That is right Ms Barry. Thank you very much. It is amazing how many good tips I have seen in just the last few months Ms Barry. For example if you are in a position of power and you have the ability to fund projects people are passionate about do not threaten to pull the plug if they disagree with you—that is bullying. If you have got access to Official Information Act material and the law says it should be released you do not have to be a rocket scientist to guess what it means if you do not. If you ever find yourself in an important meeting staring out the window daydreaming about maybe being on a boat in the harbour try to keep it to yourself. You would not want to tweet that to the rest of the world.Watching National Government Prime Ministers has been another really good source for advice. For example if you are new and you are worried that people might not like you putting spaghetti on pizza or making weird videos will not make people like you. It is OK to have a brain fade—it happens to everyone—but if you are always having them and only having them on tricky issues you might want to ask yourself: "Should I see a doctor or is something else going on?".Lastly one other piece of advice I have picked up after watching National for 9 years is that there is no such thing as a free lunch especially if you are poor hungry and do not have lunch—maybe if you are an oil company. The moral of the story is that if you want advice on living a good life do not follow National's example on running a good country. Secret recordings hush money funding threats ministerial bullying dirty politics Official Information Act abuse releasing people's private data—this is all on top of growing pollution poverty homelessness and inequality. They say that familiarity breeds contempt and after 9 years that is exactly what I have for the ethics of this Government. For 9 years we have seen a steady erosion of standards. Our rivers are dirtier and so are our politics.For 9 long years we have seen lying yelling the spreading of rumours bullying keeping secrets and name-calling. We would not tolerate these behaviours in our children but we have come to expect them from the party in Government. But Kiwis do care. They know that politics can be done differently. The Green Party knows the values we instil in our children are the values we should be using to run our country—fairness respect responsibility. If someone makes a mess they should clean it up.We face so many big challenges as a country and it is going to take grown-up politics to address them. The Green Party that knows politics can be done differently. It is time to clean up the Government."