Faafoi KrisHon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Broadcasting Communications and Digital Media): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to follow my humble colleague Willie Jackson. On Monday night when Simon Bridges was preparing to go to bed he asked for two simple things. He needed two numbers to go his way. He prayed for unemployment to go up because that's what he needs and he prayed for his preferred Prime Minister polling to go up. None of those things happened and that's the cold hard reality of the negative National Party at the moment. They don't want the best for the country. Even when unemployment goes down they get upset and angry because they don't have a positive vision for New Zealand after wasting the opportunity of nine years on this side of the House. I noticed a difference today in the National Party when the Hon Judith Collins led off the general debate. When I watch the general debate from this side of the House and Mr Bridges leads off I see a phenomenon which I call the general debate grin. The members opposite don't notice it because they can't see it but it's almost like watching people getting on a roller coaster that they don't want to be on. Just minutes before the thing takes off they get on they're locked in they can't get out and they're smiling nervously wondering what the hell is about to happen. But today when the Hon Judith Collins led off the debate they were happy. They felt enthusiastic. All the messages were wrong but you could see the uplift in the National Party caucus. When I see the general debate grin on the other side I feel sorry for the National Party because it's all in proximity to the leader. If you're the deputy leader you have to have the biggest grin and we see that in Paula Bennett. If you're in the whip's chair—and I'm sorry to single you out Matt—you also have to have a big grin. But then when you get out to the periphery of the Chamber and the seats in the House those who are worried about the polling of the National Party the grin turns into a grimace and they know that the more that Mr Bridges speaks in this House—or actually the more he speaks—the chances of some of those members on the periphery making their way back to the Chamber after the 2020 election go south very fast. I want to use one example of Mr Bridges' musings last week. I wasn't in the country. I was visiting my parents' island nation of Tokelau. The one message I would want to give to Mr Bridges is if you're going to have a crack at Tokelauans then you'd better be ready for the pushback. There are only 8000 Tokelauans in New Zealand but what I'm really looking forward to is having 8000 more door-knockers and delivery people at the next election. They will respect this side of the House and the pride in the fact that they are New Zealanders and are everyday New Zealanders and the fact that this Government respects that and that our Prime Minister will visit their tiny atoll nations and their atolls because they're dealing with everyday long-term issues like climate change.So Mr Bridges next time we have Tokelau Language Week in this House I want you to think long and hard before you take a gift from the Tokelau community because you can't go dissing them and then taking their gifts. We're very happy and humble and noble people but Mr Bridges don't go dissing them when they have the huge privilege of their Prime Minister visiting their country.Now enough about them and their doom and gloom because there is a lot of good stuff happening on this side of the House. I've already mentioned Willie Jackson's 3.9 percent unemployment rate—heading south like as I said Simon Bridges' preferred Prime Minister polling. The other side of the House said You can't have low unemployment when you're lifting wages." Well we've made liars of them. It is possible to make sure that people can have a decent income and create jobs. That's the cold hard reality.So my message to the people of New Zealand is you've got a Government that cares about the things that matter to you not letterheads but jobs incomes health and education and making sure that you stick up for the little people in the world as well. So I'm very proud to sit on this side of the House where we are dealing with the long-term issues and getting on with the issues that that previous Government never attended to. So I'm looking forward to next Wednesday when we all watch that general debate grin on the other side of the House."