Nash StuartSTUART NASH (Labour—Napier): Well if that is going to be the quality of the debate going forward for the next 10 hours then the people of New Zealand will know there is only one very clear choice on 23 September and that is to vote for a change of Government. In fact Andrew Little and Jacinda Ardern have been travelling this country filling up halls with New Zealanders who are sick to death of this Government with New Zealanders who are actually looking for a vision who are looking for a way forward and who are looking for a new New Zealand—and they are not getting it with this Government. They are hearing a plan when Jacinda and Andrew travel around New Zealand and fill halls. People are finally saying: Yes maybe it is time for a change after 9 long years."When I hear Mr Bishop stand up and talk about what is happening in rural New Zealand what I can say is that in a town in my electorate Wairoa—which the Minister in the chair Steven Joyce knows well because he has been there and seen the most innovative project I believe on the books in New Zealand at this point in time which is Rocket Lab—they are not going to have ultra-fast broadband up there for at least another 5 or 6 years. This is symptomatic of small-town rural provincial New Zealand. They have fantastic ideas; they want to be out there taking on the world and yet the most basic tool that will allow them to do this is so far out of reach that it is unbelievable.If you do not empower these rural communities then there is no way that they can be the innovative places that they should be. For Mr Bishop to stand up and talk about R & D—the cheek of that gentleman. We have one of the lowest R & D spends in the OECD and one of the lowest—if not the lowest—R & D spends by the private sector in the OECD. Do you know what started this fall? It was when that Government upon assuming power took away the R & D tax credit which Treasury advised them not to do. It was a backward step that has sent us back about 10 or 15 years.Let us talk about economic development. The high-level numbers do not look too bad to be honest. But let us dig a little bit deeper into the indicators that really matter to good hard-working Kiwis on the ground in rural provincial New Zealand as well as the big cities. Unemployment is at 140000 people—47000 more than when National took office. There are 90000 "neets". These are the 15 to 24-year-olds who are not in education training or employment. The interesting thing is that when this Government came into power these young people were aged between 6 and 15. You would have thought that theirs was an aspirational future that they could grab hold of. Instead 9 years later when these 6-year-olds are now 15 you get a Prime Minister calling them what? What did he call them Mr Lees-Galloway?Iain Lees-Galloway: "Pretty damned hopeless."STUART NASH: "Pretty damned hopeless." People who were 6 years old are now being called "pretty damned hopeless" when they are 15 by that Prime Minister. I think that this Government has to take serious responsibility for what has happened to these "neets" over the last 9 years. Finally there is a party with a vision and the plan on how to get these young people back into employment and back into contributing to society. If you look at the Business Growth Agenda—Hon Michael Woodhouse: What is it?STUART NASH: You will hear it in the next 10 hours believe me—believe me. If you read about the Business Growth Agenda it sounds really good on paper. The first thing it says in the Business Growth Agenda is: "Develop with key stakeholders a broad compelling and flexible New Zealand story that works for a range of exporters and sectors."I think one of the worst things this Government has actually done is completely mismanage our global brand. All you have to do is hear Mr Parker talk about the dreadful state of our waterways. We go out there with a "clean green" "100% Pure" brand that is just an absolute myth. I know Mr Bishop believes this. In 2005 the then Ministry of Economic Development valued this brand at $20 billion a year and that Government has devalued it. Over the next 5 months New Zealanders are going to see a lot more of the vision that Labour has in the economic development space. You are going to hear the plans that we have to grow the regions and grow our communities to provide real support for small to medium businesses that really want to grow and take on the world and to provide assistance for those who are ready to take on the world but just feel there is no support from this Government at all. I cannot wait till 23 September."