Street Maryan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeStreet Maryan: General Debate[Sitting date: 06 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:14419. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon MARYAN STREET (Labour): This Government is out of touch. This Government is failing New Zealanders. This Government is not listening to anybody. It is tired and it is old and it is on its way out. It is not listening. That is easy to tell because on issues such as asset sales or the Government Communications Security Bureau legislation or even on something as effete as charter schools the Government is not listening to what people are saying about those issues. People in New Zealand do not want charter schools they do not want their assets sold and they do not want their privacy invaded at will by surveillance agencies.This Government looks after only its mates. It does not matter whether we look at Skycity or Rio Tinto or Chorus or even at education—again another $3 million to bail out Wanganui Collegiate School. We can see even from the little gestures—although $3 million is quite a lot to a school—that the Government is looking after only its mates.But let us have a look at the ruin that is happening within the National caucus. Look at who is going. Chris Tremain has announced that he is going. All of those real estate signs could not save him. Chris Auchinvole has announced that he is going. Phil Heatley has said that he is going. Paul Hutchison has said that he is going. Cam Calder has said that he is going. There is something about rats and sinking ships here that is really beginning to ring true—that is really beginning to ring true. Colin King is being challenged in Kaikōura. I do not think he will see this place again.But look at the next tactic. Bill English and Murray McCully are going on the list only. They are not going to represent those constituents whom they are meant to have represented for a long time but given that neither of them live in their electorates that is debatable. However the point about Bill English and Murray McCully going on the list only is that they are clearly lining themselves up to exit without precipitating by-elections which are a bit inconvenient for the party as soon as a nice little diplomatic sinecure comes on to the horizon. As soon as the offer of a job comes on to the horizon we will not see Bill English or Murray McCully for dust. They will be able to exit easily as soon as a diplomatic post comes up.Labour wants to build a future that all New Zealanders can benefit from not just a few. It wants an economy that works for all New Zealanders—a fair and just society where everybody can live in dignity. This is not new. This is stuff that Labour members have always stood for and that the National Party has never enunciated.We want an environment we can protect and a nation we can be proud of. We will protect the environment so that our water quality is restored our unique biodiversity is strengthened and not threatened and our endangered species are protected preserved and restored. We will lead a country that is able to wean itself off fossil fuels so that we do not have to drill and frack everything for short-term economic gain and long-term permanent environmental destruction. We will build a future that is focused on smart technologies on renewable energy on the quality and skilled jobs that those industries require and on decent living wages that go with high-skilled jobs.We will repeal the Government’s attacks on the Resource Management Act. We will restore it to its original function of regulating planning and development with the environment in mind not the developer’s profit. We will put the people back into public decisions instead of increasing the number of non-notifiable Resource Management Act processes—Hon Simon Bridges: You haven’t been talking to Shane Jones lately.Hon MARYAN STREET: —or slipping Supplementary Order Papers in after the select committee has reported back Mr Bridges. We will build people back into public decisions. We will rebuild New Brighton. We will do the things that real people need for real lives.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.