Willis NicolaGENERAL DEBATENICOLA WILLIS (Deputy Leader—National): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.I want New Zealanders to know our country can be better than this. These past five years it's lost its way but National has a plan to get it back on track and our plan is built on values. They are National Party values and they are what we stand for.One of those values is equal opportunity and we know that education is the great equaliser. We owe it to every New Zealand child that they have a good education but truancy is our national disease and there is no equal opportunity there can be no equal opportunity while two out of five of our children are attending school regularly and three are not. No more excuses. The National Party will not bow down to the soft bigotry of low expectations. We will expect every child every school and every parent to work to get our kids back in the classroom because we stand for equal opportunity.We stand for personal responsibility. We will not stand by while another shop owner every day is ram raided by youths who don't respect the law and do not respect the idea of personal responsibility and consequences. On our watch they will be held accountable for their offending with the sentencing needed to send them the message that they are responsible.We stand for reward for effort and achievement. We know that when New Zealanders get up in the morning and they toil and they sacrifice through their day they don't expect the Government to solve every problem for them but they do expect the Government to be disciplined about its own spending so that they can hold on to a little bit more of their own money. And because we believe in reward for effort and we believe in reward for achievement we will deliver that. We know that money does not grow on trees—that no matter how beautifully our opponents divide the pie their division will not make New Zealand grow stronger. Instead we stand for competitive enterprise.We stand for our farmers our small-business owners. We stand up for the people who get up in the morning and work hard to create value to create growth. We stand for them and we stand for limited Government because we know that red tape and rules and intervention and centralisation and bureaucracy will not solve our nation's problems. These are not the answers. Even if they hire 14000 more public servants our problems will not be solved by that because it's not a Government department that gets it done; it's strong families it's strong communities and National stands for them.We also stand for individual freedom and individual choice. We do not stand for a Government that is overbearing that gets itself involved in matters that belong with families and belong with communities. We value the Treaty of Waitangi as this nation's founding document and we stand for the premise within it—the premise of equal citizenship. We know that under equal citizenship there is one vote for one person. We will be loyal to that democratic principle because that is a founding value of this country and of our party.There are two other things that National stands for that New Zealand needs right now and they're two things that you will never hear uttered by the members opposite and they are ambition and success—ambition for this great country and the lives of every New Zealander who resides in it. And we will back them to be successful. We will not tolerate the pattern of failure the inability to deliver that has become customary and expected under these past five years of Labour leadership.We know this country can be successful again and we will do it by bringing National Party values to bear on our country: equal opportunity personal responsibility reward for effort and achievement competitive enterprise limited Government strong families caring communities equal citizenship. New Zealand is in a bad way but hope is on its way.