Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Well yesterday's speeches were such a contrast were they not between the upbeat aspirational message of the Rt Hon Bill English and Andrew Little's speech. This year is going to be a big contrast and first and foremost this year will be a contrast between the stability offered by this National-led Government and Bill English and the instability on the benches opposite. It did not take long for the vibe of the Labour-Greens state of the nation policy launch to wear off. What happened on the weekend was something unprecedented. It was admitted by Kris Faafoi on Breakfast this morning that it was unprecedented. We had this extraordinary spectacle of Poto Williams an MP inside the Labour Party—a sitting MP—hiring a public relations firm to put out a press release expressing opposition to her leader Andrew Little. Unbelievable.There is a petition running online right now from Labour Party members in opposition to Willie Jackson joining the Labour Party. The fresh faces of Labour's renewal are Laila Harré and Willie Jackson although in some ways that is probably appropriate because Willie Jackson knows all about coups. He knows all about rolling leaders because when he was an MP for just 3 years between 1999 and 2002 he rolled the leader Sandra Lee of the Mana Motuhake o Aotearoa party which was part of the Alliance. So it is highly appropriate that he should be aspiring to join a caucus that knows all about coups and that knows all about rolling leaders. We are looking forward to having him inside the Parliament up high on the Labour Party list ahead of Trevor Mallard and ahead of David Parker their intellectual heavyweight. We are looking forward to it. So things over on the other side of the House are an absolute mess at the moment.Scott Simpson: Open revolt.CHRIS BISHOP: It is open revolt as my good colleague Scott Simpson says. This Government offers stability and solidity.It will also be a contrast this year between the visions of the economy of the parties: an open outward-looking focused economy offered by this National-led Government and an inward close-minded mentality offered by members opposite. This party and this Government believe that New Zealand's future lies with being open to the world with trading on the world stage with welcoming foreign investment and with welcoming migrants to this country whereas the Labour Party and parties opposite are the parties opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement the parties opposed to foreign investment and the parties opposed to New Zealand making its way on the world stage.It will also be a contrast between a party and a Government that are focused on getting results with Government spending and a party and parties opposite that measure success only by the quantum of spending. This Government is very focused on doing more with less and on getting results out of our public services. We have heard members on this side of the House talk about that so far in the debate today but Labour and parties opposite measure success by how much they can increase budgets. We saw the mess that that got us into in the mid-2000s which National had to sort out after 2008.This will be a year that is marked by a contrast in approaches to tackling social problems. This Government is pioneering an innovative fresh approach to tackling our intractable social problems using data and innovative approaches like Whānau Ora and utilising the skills and expertise of our social sector our non-governmental organisations and even our private sector. We call this social investment. Parties opposite increasingly just rely on the failed formulas of the past: big Government. They have never seen a problem a good dollop of Government spending could not solve. Well we know that that has not worked. We know as our Prime Minister said that it results in servicing misery and in ever-increasing Government Budgets increasingly servicing misery in our communities. We are determined to tackle the problems that have bedevilled New Zealand for far too long and that is what we are doing.Fifthly and finally this year will be a contrast most importantly between aspiration and negativity. This party and this Government have an aspirational ambitious vision for New Zealand: making its way on the world stage confident welcoming of migrants welcoming of the multicultural society that New Zealand increasingly is and tackling those hard problems that have bedevilled us. Parties opposite are characterised by relentless negativity: negativity about New Zealand's prospects and negativity about how we can tackle those prospects in the world. That is the contrast that will be placed before the New Zealand people on 23 September and I have every confidence they will choose the optimistic path and re-elect this Government.