Peachey Allan: General Debate 
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Peachey Allan: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 18 November 2009. Volume:659;Page:7782. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
ALLAN PEACHEY (National—Tamaki) 
: 
 Twelve months ago tomorrow the dark deep gloom of socialism was lifted from New Zealand and life extended into 12 months of optimism of positivity and of growth. The reality is that New Zealand has entered a new era in its history an era in which New Zealanders understand that good moderate sensible government can make a difference to their lives. 
Out on the streets of Tamaki the electorate that I have the privilege to represent in this House the message is clear: “Thanks heavens for the change of Government! Now we can look forward to controlling more of our own incomes.” There has been $1 billion in tax cuts which have affected 1.5 million New Zealanders and their families. The importance of that is an acknowledgment by the National Government that people who earn the money know better how to spend it than a bunch of socialists who from time to time somehow find themselves in Government. The people in my electorate of Tamaki really appreciate that. They look forward to having more to come as this Government works steadily and honestly to get the economy under control. That is very very apparent out on the streets of the Tamaki electorate and in working-class suburbs like Glen Innes. 
Glen Innes is a suburb where 58 percent of the housing is still owned by the Housing New Zealand Corporation. There are people who generation after generation as National Governments have allowed them have purchased their State houses and become private home owners. The people of Tamaki are delighted and grateful to this Government that once again they will have the opportunity to purchase the State houses they live in and are raising their families in. On this side of the House the National Government believes in private home ownership. Why the socialists will not let them buy their own homes is beyond the understanding of the good people of the suburb of Glen Innes whom I represent. 
These are people who welcome the moves on law and order made by the current Government. For 9 long years they have had to sit back unsafe in their homes and watch the organised gangs control their streets watch the P houses trading up the street. Those are the houses that their children have to walk past every day to get to school. Now at long last a Government has stood up and said to the gangs that this will stop. There will be no more. 
These people have aspirations for their children that were not being met under the previous Labour Government. They have aspirations that their children should go to good schools and with this Government we are seeing interventions in schools including schools in my electorate that have been failing children. For 9 years the Labour Government preferred to make excuses and to make decisions in the interests of people in the education sector who were not the parents and who were not the children. The people in my electorate are now delighted— 
Dr Cam Calder 
: Relieved! 
ALLAN PEACHEY 
: —and relieved as my colleague says that a Government is finally doing something about the quality of schooling. They understand as this side of the House understands that the key to advancement is through good schooling. That is what this Government after 1 year in office is advancing.