Heatley Phil: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHeatley Phil: General Debate[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12125. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon PHIL HEATLEY (National—Whangarei):Now that the Labour Party is reaching the dizzying heights of 28 percent in the polls I think it is worth contemplating what a Green-led Government might look like. We know that the Greens are putting outpolicy proposals on a fortnightly basis which the Labour Party members are picking up here there and everywhere. They are not doing any particular thinking about them but they believe that because the Greens are set to overtake Labour in the polls it is well worth picking up their policy choices—for example the capital gains tax. The Labour Party says that it is a tax that will not affect the family home. I am not sure about what Labour calls second-hand homes and whether they would be affected but we know that that capital gains tax will also be applied to every business owner every shareholder every farm owner and those whose assets increase. It could be anything to do with anything they own. I do warn listeners that should you get a Greens-led Government it might be worth looking at any asset that increases in capital value because it could be subject to that tax. I myself am saying to my son: “Hide your stamp collection. Hide your stamp collection because there could be a capital gain and that might be taxed.” Anyway the fact of the matter is that we are looking at a poll result where the Greens could be in charge of New Zealand in a Greens-led coalition.I would like to correct Judith Collins. She did say that when Labour members do not want to appear on TV they send Sue Moroney. That is not actually true. Statistically they send a spokesman from the Green Party. We see Russel Norman Metiria Turei and other Green Party members speaking out on Government policy a lot more than we do David Shearer. As I say we do know that the Green Party is eyeing up Cabinet positions. Russel Norman wants to be finance Minister. That ambassador for the printing press Russel Norman wants to make sure he is finance Minister. He wants a third of Cabinet Ministers to be Green Party members. You can understand why that is because essentially the Labour Party caucus as we know is so small now that it can fit in a corporate box. So it is going to actually have to draw on Cabinet Ministers from the Green Party.I took the time to read Green Party policy and a little bit about the Green Party members of Parliament. This is on the current Green Party website. It talks about that potential Cabinet Minister Catherine Delahunty. In her words she says this: “Left-wing Wellington in the 70s was full of schisms and isms and frankly it made more sense to me to become a hippie. We had aspirations” said Catherine Delahunty “that we could completely drop out and we lived in a fairly fractious state of collective confusion but we grew great vegetables!”. That is from Catherine Delahunty a future Cabinet Minister. “I met my partner on a toxic tour of the country” she says “and I’ve been passionate about toxics ever since.”David Clendon a future Cabinet Minister under a Greens-led Government is also on the Green Party website. It says: “Before entering Parliament David worked at the coalface of eco-enterprise” which I thought was an unfortunate turn of events for a party against mining—for him to be working at the coalface. He goes on to say: “My only real fear [of being a parliamentarian] is that I won’t take sufficient advantage of this opportunity but ultimately there’s such a lot to learn and I need to figure out the place before I can play the game.” David you certainly do need to if you are going to be around Cabinet.And it says of Gareth Hughes on the Green Party website: “The 31 year-old admits to being ‘a bit of amunter who was into cars and girls’ in his younger days. However his outlook on life underwent a major overhaul ... ‘The world opened up when I went to Victoria University’ he says. ‘I started out intending to study commerce but after stuffing up my enrolment I decided to drop any papers that sounded boring.’ ” Good on you Gareth Hughes future Cabinet Minister with the Labour Party and Greens. He says: “No doubt people will call me young and inexperienced but I would rather be judged on my merits not my age. I don’t have parliamentary experience … but I have ... energy”. We all do Mr Hughes.So there we have it: a little line-up of what the Labour-Greens coalition would look like.