Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. Grant Robertson says it's a lazy form of politics to talk about race. The laziest form of politics is actually to accuse the other side of politics of racism and that's what Grant Robertson spent much of his speech doing. We have to be grown-ups in this country and this is a grown-up House of Representatives. We need to be able to talk about issues of race in this Parliament. And to paraphrase the Chief Justice of the United States the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. So we are not going to apologise for having robust discussions in this Parliament and in wider society and we would be doing a disservice to the people of this country if we did not raise legitimate issues about race-based funding and discrimination on the basis of race in this Parliament. But the real issue today is actually about the Government falling apart because in the last five months five Ministers have shuffled off the political mortal coil: Stuart Nash Michael Wood Meka Whaitiri and I predict soon Jan Tinetti because Jan Tinetti in some ways has done worse than Michael Wood has done and there will be more words to be said about that.But let's talk about Michael Wood because Michael Wood today resigned as a Cabinet Minister and it turns out Michael Wood should be a member of the National Party because Michael Wood is the biggest capitalist socialist I've ever seen! Michael Wood back when he was a young whippersnapper coming up through the ranks of the Labour youth movement decided as a youngster that he would participate in the privatisation of Contact Energy in the late 1990s which was done by the National Government as a trade sale and a partial float. It was the forerunner to the mixed-ownership model of the John Key and Bill English Government and Michael Wood the cloth cap hard-left unionist leader of the Labour left movement decided back then: I'm actually going to put up some of my own capital. I'm going to buy a few shares." Not only that—not only Contact Energy—but Auckland International Airport; another privatisation by the National Government back in 1999 to 2008. And it turns out we learn today he owns shares all over the sharemarket: National Australia Bank Chorus—there's a whole bunch of different shares. So it turns out that the cloth cap hard-left unionist is actually a dirty little capitalist! And we welcome him to the cause of a shareholding democracy. We just wish he'd been slightly more upfront about the fact that he owned those shares for all those years.And after 12 times being told by the officials and his staff "Hey mate you'd better sell these shares because you've got to disclose them" he didn't do it. So Michael Wood has left the ministry. And of course we've had Stuart Nash in recent weeks as well who thought it was OK to leak confidential information out of Cabinet to his political donors. Then of course we get to the awful saga of Jan Tinetti who decided to not be upfront with the public and the Parliament about her dirty little deal to conspire with her officials to make sure that announcements about attendance data were released at the same time as the Government was making some PR puffery about announcements to take care of it. What we see is a Government in disarray and what I've just talked about—Stuart Nash Michael Wood Kiri Allan—is characterised by three things. One is arrogance. Second is incompetence. And three is a lack of focus on what actually matters. Here we are less than four months till the election talking about everything other than the important issues: the 60 percent increase in spending in the last six years for no outcomes; a health system falling apart; an education system falling apart; law and order in this country that is going from bad to worse. We're not talking about those important issues; instead we're talking about this inept and tired and arrogant Government's last few months in office with Ministers leaving left right and centre. New Zealanders deserve better and on 14 October they'll get the chance to vote for it."