Rurawhe Adrian; Seymour David; Mallard TrevorGENERAL DEBATEDEPUTY SPEAKER: Would some honourable member care to move that the House take notice of miscellaneous business. DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Life's full of coincidences and I so move. I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. It's been a wonderful recess for New Zealand. I've been up and down the country listening to people frustrated with the direction of this Government and the direction of this country and I want to thank the Labour Government for one thing: for driving huge crowds out to hear the ACT Party at our public meetings in our Real Change Tour. We had 500 people in Tauranga. In Pāuanui we had 140—that's 13 percent of the resident population of the town who were present. Why are so many people showing up? Well because there's a cost of living crisis where people are squeezed at the pump at the checkout and at the hardware store. When they pay their rent and when they try to pay anything they find that there's not enough money left at the end of the week and there's too much month left at the end of the money and why is that? Because we've got a Government that is fiscally incontinent and wholly irresponsible in its expenditure—a Government that is addicted to spending that's taking $14 billion a year more than it was just two years ago. When people are cutting their household budgets left right and centre to handle the rising price of everything under this Government's policies can Grant Robertson find even a morsel can he reduce tax even a cent? No—$14 billion extra in tax over the last two years and he tells us that if we were to reduce taxation by even a few measly dollars there'd be no schools and there'd be no hospitals there'd be no roads and it would be the end of civilisation as we know it. Come on! That's why 77 percent of New Zealanders say that this Government's not doing enough on the cost of living crisis because they're not doing anything effective at all. Here's another thing: I heard Grant Robertson say that cutting taxes wouldn't be a good use of the Government's resources. Well what an interesting choice of words. This Government under Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern thinks your money is the Government's resources. They should just take all of our money and we'd be lucky if they let us get some of it back. Well it's not just the fiscal incontinence of this Government and the cost of living crisis that Kiwis are facing; it's crime all over the street as we find out what the consequences are of having a Government whose main focus in law and order is cuddling crims. It's always someone else's fault under this Government and there's no place for personal responsibility. People want to see law and order that puts victims at the centre and not have three-strikes legislation removed as Labour's clean-slate policy for the worst violent and sexual offenders in this country. What message does that send to the ram-raiders and every other criminal in this country? Then they find over recess that this Government is stealthily trying to divide our country. I heard the Opposition's secret weapon getting interviewed by Q+A. His name was Willie Jackson and he said You know democracy has changed." He was asked "Is democracy one person one vote?"—anyone can get that; we learn it at school—and he said "No democracy has changed." I hope that Q+A keep interviewing Willie Jackson. In fact I'd love to debate him but here's the little secret: the ninth floor won't let him debate me and I don't blame their strategist. Then we had He Puapua's response come out and was it consulted on with all New Zealanders who have a share in this country's constitutional future? No it was not. It was consulted on only with select groups of Māori and that is exactly what is wrong with this Government's approach. It is so exclusionary it is divisive and we saw it again in their response to three waters. It is so dangerous and damaging to the future of this country which should be a modern multi-ethnic liberal democracy. That's why people came out in their hundreds to ACT Party meetings up and down this country in New Zealand over the past two weeks because we believe that this country belongs to the people who get up in the morning and try to make tomorrow better than today through their own ingenuity and efforts. Regardless of their superficial characteristics they all deserve one 5-millionth of the opportunity that this country has to offer. That is a future we can all be proud of. Thank you Mr Speaker. SPEAKER: Before I call Mr Robertson I'd just like to address Mr Waititi and to remind him that we should not use visual aids to disturb speakers while they are speaking. Rawiri Waititi: I was supporting him. SPEAKER: It didn't have that effect Mr Waititi."