Ngaro Alfred: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNgaro Alfred: General Debate[Sitting date: 05 November 2014. Volume:701;Page:653. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALFRED NGARO (National):It is a pleasure to rise and speak after the member Su’a William Sio. I would say that that speech was like the speech of a white knight on a white horse but in his case it is a brown knight on a brown donkey.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!ALFRED NGARO: This is it—this is what has become of this speech.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): No no. I think the member will just change his tone a bit. Thank you.ALFRED NGARO: This is what has become of the speech. It is the classic speech the socialist speech that keeps coming out and by the way the assumption that I grew up in a State house is not true. This is the thing—all these assumptions about who we are as Polynesian people growing up the assumptions in his speech that talked about the knight coming in to save our communities and save our people. In other words they cannot save themselves. Well this is what happens. Labour Party members keep saying: “We are here as the Labour Party to save you.” Well guess what? Here is some news—our community does not need you to save it. Why? Because we can save ourselves. That is right. But this is what has happened—those sorts of speeches have become a one-trick pony. It is the same thing over and over again hence the reason that over a million New Zealanders did not vote for the Labour Party. Labour has had the poorest result in the history of the Labour Party—in 92 years. So it is going to have to take some lessons from that.Carmel Sepuloni: Not as bad as the National Party in 2002. Don’t forget that.ALFRED NGARO: You can shout all you like but here is the reason why we are making a difference. Why? Because when we talk about poverty hardship and difficulty it is not about saying: “Here are the things we are going to do for you.” Our communities do not need to be told that we are here to save them. All they want and all they need is opportunity and a fair go. So here is the reality.Out there in west Auckland in Te Atatū where I went and campaigned for 2½ months here is the difference it made. In 2½ months the people of Te Atatū turned round and said they halved the majority for a Labour seat that had been Labour for some time.Carmel Sepuloni: Turned around and said they wanted Phil Twyford not Alfred Ngaro.ALFRED NGARO: That is right. The majority of the party vote was increased from 700 in 2011 to nearly 2000. That is what actually happened in 2½ months. Here is a telling sign. When I was at Rutherford College Will Flavell came out and said this to me: “Geez you’re going hard aren’t you?”. I asked him how long he had been out in the west and he said: “Maybe some 10 years.” So here is a lesson from the wise about how it rolls out in the west. You either go hard or you go home.Our communities want to hear the messages that make a difference so you talk about housing and how that makes a difference. Our communities heard about KiwiBuild—100000 homes 10000 per year—but here is the telling thing in the debate. Down at McLaren Park when Phil Stoner Twyford was asked this question: “So you’re saying you’ve got 10000 per year?” he said that was correct. But on Q+A on Sunday he said he could build 400 in the first year 8000 in the second and 12000 in the next. That is right—it is accumulative over a period of time. People began to see through the lies and realised that is not what makes a difference. Our housing policies are making a difference.Here is the other thing. The issues around a capital gains tax did not make a difference. That is right. [Interruption] Wahine you can keep talking and crying all the time—here is what made a difference. All of a sudden it was a failed policy. You no longer talk about it. Why? Because it became an inheritance tax.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard: Order!ALFRED NGARO: So here is the thing that becomes important. Time and time again our communities are saying that the policies are weak the implementation does not happen and the reality is there is nothing new. You are going to have to change your message because it is not getting through.Carmel Sepuloni: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I do not know whether it is appropriate for that member to say that you need to change.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Yes and if the member had been listening she would have heard me correct him at the time.ALFRED NGARO: Here is the other bit in the issues around poverty that we believe is making a difference. Just this afternoon for instance we were down here looking at the Big Picture art exhibition. Over there the young children from Pukehamoamoa School had won the prize and why? Because they showed a picture that showed that poverty is a very complex issue in our communities. We know that there is hardship in our communities. We know that there are difficulties. So how are we solving this? We are dealing with the issues in hardship for instance with free GP visits for children under 13 ensuring that they get access to health services that are there. What are we also doing for instance? We are ensuring that we are engaging into communities so that they enrol into early childhood education. We know the difference that that makes to our communities—and it is making a difference. We know how that is engaging our communities as well.I also want to talk about the fact that our Pasifika communities are changing and moving towards a value-based National-led Government and the things that we are doing. We are seeing it happen constantly over and over again. Why? Because those values of opportunity are constantly coming through for our people as well. Here is the difference that we know that it is making. The economy is growing by 3.9 percent.