Swarbrick Chlöe; Mallard TrevorCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. Mr Speaker on behalf of the Greens we'd like to thank you for all of your work this past year particularly in making Parliament a more accessible and family-friendly place. We would like to echo the sentiments of our colleagues and tautoko the mahi of the cooks the cleaners the librarians the security staff the parliamentary tour guides the education office the Chamber officers and the Office of the Clerk who help make this place function and indeed help make us look good.This has been a big year for our lean mean Green caucus. We had a baby—well Julie Anne had a baby and she embodied peak Green Party when she cycled to the hospital to give birth. Nobody can say that Julie Anne Genter does not walk the talk—or indeed cycle the cycle—when it comes to living her kaupapa as Associate Minister of Transport. Marama Davidson was elected by our party as our new Green co-leader and she's taken to the role by storm engaging with the grassroots and mobilising for change to empower those in poverty out of its grasp and of course she once upon a time spoke of the need to remove the power from a derogatory colloquialism of the female anatomy.The Hon James Shaw is currently in Poland—which has become a bit of a running joke whenever we can't find him—negotiating an international climate change rulebook. He's James Warsaw" now.Jan Logie has made huge strides when it comes to ending sexual and domestic violence in our country passing world-leading legislation. For someone with anarchist roots I might add she manages to drink a whole lot of Diet Coke.The Hon Eugenie Sage continues to be a hero and a champion for conservation. With every environmental group that I have met with across the country she is heralded as a breath of fresh air. That could be because she's focused on cutting down the rubbish accumulating and the stink in dumps in our country. But it also happens that we rock the same haircut; so I think we have 25 percent caucus consensus on the aesthetic.Gareth Hughes shepherded through the Consumers' Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill—now an Act—with unanimous support. It took only three Green MPs two select committee investigations and 16 years but we got there! Change takes time and I guess that most of Parliament can probably reflect on the fact that it often takes about a decade to catch up with the Greens—climate change anybody?Golriz Ghahraman has held the fort on criminal justice on fair and just international trade deals and on doubling the refugee quota. The mere sight of her continues to inflame Twitter trolls.And my greatest political achievement this past year—something that I have worked towards for two years with a huge and well-coordinated team—was seeing the kererū finally crowned as the rightful Bird of the Year.In all seriousness I want to acknowledge the health Minister Dr David Clark and my New Zealand First colleagues whom I worked actively and constructively with in order to see that our country actually walks the talk on seeing drugs treated as the health issue that they are.It has been a full-on first year in Parliament. Just over a year ago I gave my maiden speech and I said that I wanted to show that politicians could do things a little differently and speak a little differently. So at the behest of my colleague Erica Stanford I am stoked to report that I have been helping to update the vocabulary of my fellow colleagues. A few months back at a junior whip or musterer catch-up I educated an utterly perplexed Kieran McAnulty that my exclamation of the word "sick" wasn't about how disgusting something was but indeed in favour of it.This year we have defined our past. It is goodbye to plastic bags to oil and gas to the unfounded and misguided war on drugs and to old-world thinking that sees us prioritise roading projects at the expense of all other modes of transport and actually often of safety. Our future is an explicit prioritisation of our people and our planet entrenched in well-being. I want to thank our incredible parliamentary office our advisers and those who ensure that things run well in the House. I'd also like to make a quick shout-out to my executive support and researcher Tim Onnes.With the announcement yesterday of the cannabis referendum—as noted by the Leader of the Opposition—contained in the Green-Labour confidence and supply agreement to be binding and held in 2020 I can foresee an avalanche of terrible cannabis jokes and stereotypes being proliferated throughout the next two years. But if I can leave the House with one thing it's that come 2020 Mr Bridges will have the opportunity to vote three ticks Green. Meri Kirihimete Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: Before I call the member the next person on the list according to the agreement is David Seymour. What I'm proposing to do is to defer his speech to go on with others and if he's not here we'll just scrub it."