Joyce StevenHon STEVEN JOYCE (Minister for Economic Development): I want to rise firstly and support Te Ururoa Flavell because he is one member of this House who supports and promotes regional economic development in deed as well as word. Unlike one or two other members of this House who talk a lot about regional economic development and do less than diddly-squat—less than diddly-squat—for regional economic development Te Ururoa Flavell is out there every day working for New Zealanders in regional parts of the country and encouraging them to have aspirations for themselves and their families. This Friday was to be another step forward for some of those regions and the weasel-worders of New Zealand First have ankle tapped that aspiration for regional New Zealand. Regional New Zealanders will recognise that. They will recognise the level of contempt for their time for their money and for their efforts to come to this city and be aspirational for their futures. They will not forget that this Friday. This country is growing strongly. It is growing strongly not on the efforts of clowns like the Rt Hon Winston Peters but on the efforts of hard-working New Zealanders in regional New Zealand—people whom the Labour Party was laughing at today on the West Coast; people whom the Labour Party was treating with derision today for their aspiration to grow their region and for their aspiration and their coming together with central government yesterday to create a positive plan for the growth of their region. Up and down this country people in small medium and large companies—not Governments and not politicians; small medium and large companies—are the people who have grown this economy 3.6 percent over the last year. It is small medium and large New Zealand companies that are hiring the people who have seen 325000 more jobs in this economy since the height of the global financial crisis. It is small medium and large companies that are building the biggest building boom that New Zealand has ever seen. The Labour Party might like to sit over there and deny all of that because it is the progenitor of post-truth politics. It does not want to believe the evidence at all because Grant Robertson when he runs around talking about post-truth politics is talking about himself. That is a denial of what hard-working New Zealanders are doing every day to get this country running to get jobs growing and to provide people with aspiration and opportunity and wages so they can lift themselves up out of the challenging circumstances that some find themselves in. As a result we have the lowest level of youth—15 to 19-year-olds—out of work education and training that we have ever had but not according to the Opposition. Again that is not the politicians' actual work; that is because this Government has worked hard to get it to a point where those things can happen. Across the other side of the House members are in denial. They are in such denial that they are even denying the polls of New Zealanders. So they are not just denying the businesses; they are denying the attitudes of New Zealanders who are recognising what this country is doing to succeed in every region of this country. This week we have seen New Zealand First show the most contempt—the most contempt—for the people of regional New Zealand by getting them to book tickets to come to this city to celebrate their Treaty settlements and Winston Peters has given them what is known up my way as a two-fingered salute and said: It's all about me. It's not about you. It's not about your aspirations your young people and your futures." That is the selfishness that is New Zealand First."