Goldsmith Paul; Williams PotoHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): I think that member Fletcher Tabuteau would make an excellent deputy leader of New Zealand First—so well spoken. It is my pleasure to speak on this bill—a very short contribution from the member Jan Tinetti. Apparently she told the Bay of Plenty Times that this bill will start to return mana to the teaching profession and I'm glad to hear that—I'm glad to hear that. It's a fairly low base from which to start this bill but it's better than nothing. When we look at this I'm sure all the teachers in this country will be immensely reassured and feel strengthened by changing resilience determination confidence and creative … thinking" into "resilience determination confidence creative and critical thinking and to become lifelong learners". It's that addition I think that really sort of makes all the difference. I don't like to be unkind but I think you'll find that this is not a great contribution but one way in which to fill the ballot and it's a pity because there's so much that could be done.I thought it was rather rich that we heard that there's going to be a lot of work put into consultation with the sector before these changes—subtle changes—are made to the objectives of the National Education and Learning Priorities these little tweaks that have been made probably late at night over a discussion with a few people just to throw together this bill. There's going to be great consultation with the sector. Well it's interesting today—Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: Hang on—I'm going to go back and look at what bills you introduced to Parliament because I'm fairly sure there's a pot calling the kettle black over there right now.Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: —because we've had the release today of the great sort of cradle-to-the-grave review of education more generally by the Minister Chris Hipkins and the talk of consultation with the sector and when I asked him today in relation to whether he'd consulted with the tertiary sector about the decision to spend the entire $2.8 billion on student support and nothing else whether there'd been any consultation he said "Well yes there was an election." as if that was consultation. So you go to the election you go to the people with 20 policies 30 policies—including this one—and if you happen to find yourself in Government after various permutations then that absolves you of the need to consult with the sector that is affected by very monumental changes. That is a very strange way to go about Government and a very strange way to go about consultation. So my advice to the member Jan Tinetti is maybe she might have a bit of a chat to some of her senior colleagues and encourage them to do what they say and be genuine about consulting the broader education sector about very significant changes such as we've seen in the way that they've decided to spend the money in the tertiary sector as one example. That may be helpful.So if we just go through some of these differences I'm sure people listening in will be curious as to what is being achieved or suggested—Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: Oh the Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill.Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: That was a very good bill. That was a quality bill that made a lot of difference. This one—here we are we're changing "good social skills and the ability to form good relationships" into "strong social skills and the ability to form" not good relationships but "positive relationships". So I mean I think that's you know an interesting debatable point but I'm not quite sure. Then we're also changing "participation in community life" into "active participation in community life". Well again that's really interesting. As well as that we're talking about "[contributing] to building a strong and just New Zealand socially culturally economically and environmentally"—very useful indeed. And then instead of just "preparedness for work" we have this very long-winded prelude saying "promoting the development of … knowledge values and skills to enable students to succeed in further education and live full satisfying lives both personally and in the world of work".I just struggle to see what is being achieved by this bill and on that basis it is with heavy hearts that we on the side of the Chamber will vote against it because we don't think this—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member—your time has expired."