Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I am inspired. I am inspired by the people of this country and around the world who are calling for new solutions to the challenges we face. I want to acknowledge the strength of those flax-roots movements for change which are igniting the world with their ruthless honesty. The twin crises of climate change and inequality are here now. They are wicked scary and colossal challenges that require us to take bold action. I am inspired and I have hope because we are seeing united flax-roots movements calling decision makers to account and demanding that we take better care of our planet and our communities. James Shaw and I and all our Green MPs are strengthened every day in the work we do by those voices of people calling for bold change.People are taking to the streets—school students workers indigenous peoples women unions people from all backgrounds and experiences from vastly different societies across the globe who understand that everyone needs to be able to put food on the table have shelter that keeps them safe warm and secure have quality medical care and an education that allows children to be who they are as healthy active citizens in their neighbourhoods. Here in Aotearoa people are telling us passionately that they want clean rivers and safe drinking-water. They want thriving forests and oceans they want our native plants and creatures to be abundant and they want to protect our Earth from further climate change. And the Greens are very clear that everyone not just some should be able to live safe dignified lives in a healthy environment.This is why I am hopeful because this Government has ended new offshore oil and gas exploration—we cannot afford to burn the fossil fuels we already know about let alone any more; because this Government is building State houses—we need more—led by Minister Phil Twyford and we are working to end homelessness; because we can actually say the words housing crisis" on this side of the House; because this Government is launching an ambitious programme to clean up water and is investing money in conservation rather than starving our Department of Conservation of resources led by Green Minister Eugenie Sage; and because this Government has Green MP Jan Logie who has introduced world-first Government initiatives to address domestic violence and sexual abuse.The Greens know that business as usual won't cut it any longer. We can no longer continue to exploit entire communities and our natural world for power and wealth to be concentrated in the hands of a few. We have had generations of ruin by design. Today we face a level of consumption and exploitation by the ultra-rich at a level unheard of in human history. By 2017 just eight men—eight men—owned as much wealth as 3.6 billion of the poorest half of the world.In New Zealand two men—two men—own more wealth than the poorest 30 percent of our adult population. We didn't get here by accident. Generations of rules made in places like this one have ensured that we have kept power and wealth propped up and have created a massive and widening gap between the few and everyone else. The rules made here by successive Governments and politicians have seen the degradation of our environment health and education public services; a gutting of provision of affordable and safe housing; the weakening of protections for people who work; fair pay stolen from women Māori Pacific and disabled people; standards which allow for ongoing pollution of our air and our water; activity that endangers the livelihood of native species and plants; and laws that continue to favour wealthy corporations taking from struggling households. We have a responsibility in this new Government to make bold changes on all of these issues. For a start we need to measure our progress in a way that is far more honest about what is going on for people in their everyday lives. We want to take account of the health of our rivers and seas and forests and soils if we are talking about the real wealth of our country. We will not simply bow down to GDP alone while children are still going to school without a proper kai. We will measure the dignity of people in work not just the lonely statistic of whether they are no longer receiving a benefit. We will tell the whole story because the whole story is what is needed to inspire the true enduring solutions. The energy that is currently among young people indigenous and Pacific peoples the longstanding work of people struggling to make ends meet the communities who have had barriers relentlessly and systemically placed in the way of living dignified lives and peoples who have called out oppression and injustice—despite everything against them—are at the forefront of this change. It is their voices I am here to represent. These are the communities I come from and work with. The Greens understand deeply that the systems and rules which ruin our planet are inextricably linked to the systems and rules that hurt people and communities. And I'm proud the Greens signed up to this Government for transformational change because business as usual won't cut it any more. We need bold action on climate change and inequality and this means radical changes to how we measure success and how we protect people and the planet. The broken economic model—it's on its way out. People around the world are waking up to this and the people will make sure it happens. Thank you Mr Speaker."