Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. What a great pleasure to follow that contribution from Raymond Huo the Labour member as he pitched before the Labour caucus and the Prime Minister for a ministerial position in the next reshuffle which is not far away. But he got it wrong: he started his speech by talking about the benefits of free trade. He forgot that the Prime Minister the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance spent the last nine years in Opposition opposing free trade. We have the Minister for Trade and Export Growth who opposed free trade. We have the Deputy Prime Minister who voted against the Chinese free-trade agreement 10 years ago which the member now celebrates.But I just want to talk and congratulate the Prime Minister on returning from maternity leave and tell her that she is now finding out that running a Government is a lot different to student politics. While Chris Hipkins may well not have moved on from the student union what the Prime Minister is now finding is that this is not about student politics; this is serious and the performance of her and her Government at this stage is amateurish and the scorecard is mounting and it doesn't tell a good picture.We heard at the start of question time today about industrial relations—60000 people on strike in the last nine months compared with 30000 on strike through the whole of the nine years of the National-led Government. It is hard to believe those figures but the reason they are occurring is because in Opposition Labour and New Zealand First went out and overpromised. They went to the teachers and said Vote for us and we'll look after you." They went to the nurses and said "Vote for us; we'll look after you." Now they're in Government and they've got to deliver but they haven't got the money because they spent $2.8 billion on free tertiary for first-year students and have seen a decline in student numbers of 900. It is hard to believe.Then you look at business confidence and this Government wonders why business confidence has continued to decline. It should look in the mirror. The Deputy Prime Minister is good at looking in the mirror. What he needs to do is get the Prime Minister beside him and they both need to look in the mirror and see why business confidence continues to decline. And Darroch Ball shakes his head. He's the same as the Hon David Parker who thinks all these surveys are "junk". Well I'll give you one to watch Darroch Ball. Look at the exchange rate—72c to the American dollar at the time of the last election. Now it's 65c and if he thinks that's affected by anything other than the lack of confidence in this current Government and its policy settings if he thinks it's anything else that member is dreaming. It is an international market where the people who trade currency look at the future of this country under a Labour - New Zealand First - Green Government and realise it's all downhill and that exchange rate should tell a story to anybody who wants to follow it. If he's not prepared to accept that look at the Treasury downgrades of their forecast. If he's not prepared to look at that Darroch Ball go and talk to Adrian Orr the Governor of the Reserve Bank who at the select committee on Thursday last week pointed out that they have revised downwards their growth figures.But if you want any other indication as to how amateurish this Government is look at no other issue than Wally Haumaha. I'd never heard of this man earlier. He was appointed to be the Deputy Police Commissioner and now six weeks later his name is on the front page of the paper day after day after day. And the Prime Minister comes back from maternity leave and says she's frustrated. Has she done anything about it? Let me tell Darroch Ball because he's probably also a mate of Wally Haumaha like the Deputy Prime Minister is like the Rt Hon Winston Peters is—they're mates; we know that. Let me tell Darroch Ball something: Wally Haumaha is a goner. He will not survive and anybody who had any ability to govern and thinks it's more than student politics would have stepped in and sorted it out by now. To let this fester and fester and fester for the last six weeks shows how amateurish this Government is and if we've got to put up with it for another two years God help us all."