Webb DuncanHon Dr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour—Christchurch Central): Kia ora Madam Speaker and congratulations on your role. Given the time we've spent together on parliamentary duties I'm sure we'll get on fine. I wish I could say the same for Gerry Brownlee. When I was standing in Christchurch Central for the first time he called me an ambulance chaser and I called him deeply offensive. I don't chase ambulances anymore and I'm sure he's not deeply offensive anymore either. So I'm sure we'll get on fine as well.The last speaker Erica Stanford said she has no time to lose. And you know what? Maybe that's why National is trying to turn the clock backwards. I have seen nothing new from the National Party in this incoming Government. I listened to the Speech from the Throne I got back to my office and I wanted to get the details right so I quickly googled you know let's get the Speech from the Throne. And here it turned up I've got it here I've printed it off. And here's one of the things that this Speech from the Throne says: for the past several years the number of people employed in the public service has grown at a rate that has not been matched by a commensurate increase in the level of services provided to the public." Does that sound like Christopher Luxon to you? No that's the 2008 Speech from the Throne. So we've got a retread—I think he might have used ChatGPT but he needs to be a bit more careful because when you google "National Party Speech from the Throne" you basically get the same speech every single time.So sure he's got in the new speech "spending on public services has increased in recent years"—it's just lifted from John Key's Government. But that's not John Key that you've got over there; that's a corporate middle manager who himself said today from that chair that the Government's "Under new management". We don't want a managerialist approach to Government here; we want a proper careful governing approach—and this is not what we're going to see. We've got no vision—"Vision Impossible". And what did the John Key Government say about the Resource Management Act in 2008? "The first stage of this reform will be on improving the consent process"—it will "streamline and simplify the Act including priority consenting for projects of national significance."Well if this was a law school essay it would be thrown out for plagiarism: let's have a "one-stop-shop established for consenting and promoting processes for … projects of national significance."—straight out of 2008. Not an original thought in this Speech from the Throne. This is the great leap backwards. You can't turn the clock back—New Zealand in 2023 is a different country it's moved on.In fact a lot of what the Key Government did was more progressive than what that Government's proposing so you should be utterly and totally ashamed of yourself. And even better—even better; it just gets better and better—regulatory reform. I'm very excited about my spokesperson role in regulatory reform. You know because "This Government will undertake a regulatory review programme" John Key said in 2008. "There's superfluous regulation. Regulation should be used sparingly." So what have we got now? A new Government department. This is like Kafka but worse. It's written worse than Kafka—a new Government department with a Minister of Regulation to cut regulatory costs ha ha! It is laughable. You know so you're going to have an entire machinery to cut costs. That is absolutely ridiculous.And here's a new idea a regulatory standards standards bill will be passed—like this one from 2011 that wasn't passed or this one from 2021 that wasn't passed. It's rubbish. It's absolutely rubbish. And what's more it's reckless. As Richard Ekins said in the New Zealand Universities Law Review it's "reckless lawmaking"—it's unconstitutional it politicises the Public Service and it threatens the rule of law. You can't take a neoliberal approach to law and enshrine it in legislation. It's utterly wrong. It's a neoliberal straight-jacket and it's been roundly criticised by anyone who knows anything about it.And as for climate change you know way back in 2008 the great thought of the Key Government was "investment in research and development to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" because we've got a "unique agricultural emissions profile". What have we got now? Exactly the same approach. In today's Speech from the Throne they will use the "Technological advantages to progress the reduction of emissions including methane by farm animals." It's school childish. I cannot believe it.But you know what the one I'm going to go to that really bugs me is smoking. Here was the Key Government's approach on smoking as agreed with Te Pāti Māori: "Further work will be done on plain package smoking and other anti-smoking initiatives." Something progressive from the Key Government that made real change in lowering smoking rates. It wasn't mentioned in the Speech from the Throne for good reason. Because it's shameful. It's utterly shameful that a party with a number of medical doctors in its ranks will vote to increase smoking. The member for Banks Peninsula Vanessa Weenink GP would have had people come into her practice with emphysema caused by smoking addiction. Will she vote for it or will she uphold her Hippocratic Oath that says "Do no harm."? This is a harmful piece of piece of legislation. It will cause death. Death by taxes is what we've got here. It is utterly shameful embarrassing and I know that that member the member for Ilam—Hon Member: It's just like KiwiBuild.Hon Dr DUNCAN WEBB: —the Minister himself will have to swallow this.It's nothing like KiwiBuild. KiwiBuild might not have built enough houses but it didn't send people to their graves. It's utterly shameful.And as for bonding we've got a great new idea. Let's get people into work in nursing and doctors by helping them pay off their student loans. It might not be a bad idea because in 2008 John Key said "We're going to introduce voluntary bonding schemes based on student loan write-offs." Wow. I really you know I would have thought that this Government could do something better. It's like déjà vu but worse you know?So why don't you have an original idea of your own to face the real problems that are facing New Zealand today: the problems of climate change the problems of housing the problems of the health system. Not rewarming reheating and retreading policies from 2008.Boot camps. I cannot believe that this is still happening. Back in 2008 John Key said we could have "A new youth court a Fresh Start programme incorporating military style training and intensive mentoring." I heard Erica Stanford say she wants an evidence-based approach and there is evidence on boot camps. The evidence on boot camps is that it disenfranchises and alienates the young people that go there. It makes them network with other disenfranchised young people and it makes reoffending greater and it puts those people into a cycle of crime. If you want to have boot camps be honest and say you want to have boot camps because you don't like these people. The people the families the communities that they come from are not your communities so you don't care about them and you want to shut them off and you want to cart them off and shut them away. Well don't do it because it doesn't work. It's not good for you it's not good for our community and it will be bad in the long term for everyone. It's a reheated failed policy. So wake up and get on board.As for consumer credit again the Key Government took on consumer credit started the progress on vulnerable borrowers started the work that Kris Faafoi finished in terms of loan sharks. And here we've got an incoming Government—Andrew Bayly who seems to be saying that he's going to loosen lending rules so more money can be given to vulnerable borrowers. Rolling back the protections that John Key started that Kris Faafoi finished that means that you don't have truck shops cruising around South Auckland selling essential goods on 100 percent interest rates. That is again a shameful approach.As for Māori this Government is intending to do nothing other than roll back: roll back the Treaty roll back the equity progress that's been made roll back the functions of the Waitangi Tribunal—which has a fundamental role in pointing out the missteps of Government—and roll back the Māori Health Authority. Unlike John Key who in the Speech from the Throne in 2008 said "Māori face"—DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member's time has expired. Thank you Dr Webb."