Shaw JamesHon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I want to acknowledge and thank the members who have spoken and the memories that they've shared. Those tributes I think reflect the extraordinary woman that Jeanette was. As others have said Jeanette's approach to politics was to treat everyone with dignity and with respect. Her belief in the practice of non-violent social change always led her to seek to build consensus and common ground particularly with those with whom she disagreed most strongly. There's a saying: First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win."I think in the long run Jeanette's greatest success will be seen to be in the area where people ridiculed her the most: in economics. In her own words she said "GDP is both too narrow and too generalised to measure anything useful. It does not tell us whether the poor are getting poorer and if most of society's wealth is held by a few. It does not tell us if we are paying more and more to control pollution and crime rather than for real goods and services. It does not tell us if we are plundering the environment to [take] short-term monetary returns."Jeanette's greatest regret was that she was unable to move the establishment on this point. Yet 10 years later the current Minister of Finance had this to say: "if we've got this so-called rock star economy how is it that we have the worst homelessness in the OECD? How is it that you can't swim in most of New Zealand's rivers and lakes? How is it that child poverty [has] grown to the extent [that] it has? The answer in my view was because the government wasn't sufficiently valuing those things. And [because] it wasn't being valued properly it wasn't being measured and [because] it wasn't being measured it wasn't being done."Now I acknowledge that the other side of the House is at best sceptical about this Government's wellbeing approach and I also acknowledge that we are still a very long way from the holistic social environmental and economic guidance system for the country that Jeanette envisaged but we have gotten started. I hope that she knew in the end that she had won.Jeanette had already had a political career spanning two decades with the Values Party when I met her some time after the 1990 general election campaign. I was 18 or 19 or so and I will never forget it. There was a hui at a lodge in Ōhākune to make some choices about the future of this emerging political party the Greens. There were some heated debates about whether to be a political party or an outside pressure group trying to reach consensus on how consensus-based decision-making should work whether to have leaders or not and if so whether there should be one or two or some other model entirely.Now despite there being no clear consensus on that question at the time it was clear to me that Jeanette was a beacon by which others navigated. The debates continued through dinner and through drinks and on into the lodge's sauna where I was a little bit startled to find that not only were the policy prescriptions very northern European so was the dress code. That's where I first learnt to focus on the policy rather than the person. Now thousands of people around the country will have their own stories of Jeanette: inspiring challenging humorous poignant—endless stories of a life so rich and which touched so many. Each and every member of this Green Party caucus here has their own which Marama and I cannot hope to do any justice to today. She mentored and guided each of us and all of us.But none of us here served alongside her in Parliament. Gareth Hughes today our longest-serving MP entered Parliament when Jeanette vacated it 10 years ago last month. Gareth himself will retire at the coming election and someone else will take up the mantle. That is Jeanette's legacy. She built a political party. She led it out of the wilderness and into Parliament. She helped to midwife it into Government and it succeeds her.Her leadership was so profound that it has continued to guide the choices and shape the endeavours of a generation who only entered this place when she left it and who remain even though she has passed beyond the veil. There are very few people in our history who can make that claim. She was not just a parliamentarian and a leader; she was a mother a musician a thinker a writer a wife a friend a farmer an academic an investor a philanthropist and a protester. She wanted a world where we could be counted as she said not by the size of our GDP and our incomes but by the warmth of our relationships with each other and with nature by the health of our children and our elders and our rivers and our land. We want more people to share the secret of real happiness and satisfaction in life which comes not from having more but from being more and from being part of a society that values all its members and values the land the water and the other species with which we share them. Farewell Jeanette and thank you and please give our love to Rod.Motion agreed to.WaiataMembers stood as a mark of respect."