Williams ArenaARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa): Negative Chris Luxon constantly talks down New Zealand negative Nicola constantly talks down New Zealand negative National constantly talks down New Zealand and now David Seymour delivers us a fanciful plan to cut taxes for the wealthiest New Zealanders but keep delivering all of the services we love—just look away at the numbers.It's not believable because when we speak negatively about our country we discount all of the hard work; that New Zealanders have been going through some of these toughest times. Because these are tough times but I know that we can get through them by working together and by being pragmatic—and tomorrow we'll see a pragmatic Budget which does the things that we need to do well and makes an impact on people's lives.You know I'm backing Aotearoa and I'm backing the South Aucklanders who put me here. Negative Chris Luxon says that South Aucklanders are cooking up crimes in their South Auckland garages. He's calling my people beneficiaries" and "bottom feeders". He could not tell me more clearly who he's for which is the wealthiest New Zealanders who do not look like me who do not live in my community who do not get up every day to work hard to put food on the family dinner table who don't go to work to serve their communities who don't go to church on a Sunday to make their lives better who don't send their kids to education because they want more. These are people who are working hard in our communities and Labour is the Government that will be delivering for those people.I ask those people to watch what's being said today here to watch the ACT Party deliver a speech today in this House where they don't talk about National and ACT's cuts that will benefit the wealthiest New Zealanders by thousands of dollars a year and in some cases would mean the CEO of Air New Zealand would get over $100000 a year in tax cuts. The gumption of the leader of the ACT Party to say that everyone would be better off when minimum wage earners in my electorate will be a whole 39c better off per week. Shame. Approximately $20 better off per year but they would lose those advances in their healthcare their advances in their education.We're at a really important moment in our history. My generation is at a precipice where the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed Governments around the world and our Government too to invest in transformational change in our healthcare systems. There is so much momentum at this moment right now where the New Zealand Government has made a change that we have never seen in my lifetime: Māori healthcare is improving at a rate which it never has. We have a say in our healthcare system which will mean that the lives of Māori people will change that people who have always been left out of a health system which has not addressed their needs will be able to get the care that they need on a daily basis that primary health care is for the first time designed for them. It's so important that we continue that work.It's so important that we continue the work of this Government on our climate. And I don't mean big high-level ideas about climate change around the world; I mean our local streams our local ngahere. The way that New Zealanders experience our environment will change in my lifetime in a way that it hasn't for any other New Zealanders who have ever lived before. This is the time that the Government must invest in the way that we reduce emissions and that we live our lives so that we have stopbanks which stop the flooding in our towns—people in Manurewa and in Māngere are still out of their houses since the Auckland floods. We must invest now to make sure that we are properly protected and that we have adapted to the climate change which is barrelling down at us faster than any other Government around the world has managed to take on.This is our challenges of a generation now. We are making progress. Labour has always been the Government of progress for the people. We have the ideas which are needed now to address these huge challenges that the world is facing. We are the party of change for the better.People have a choice now. People have a choice later this year about whether one of the most regressive—regressive—Governments is elected with a "coalition of cuts" that makes cuts to education our health our public services core public spending those police officers that we have on the ground now looking after our people; or a Government that has advanced more than any other Government before it with priorities around climate change around looking after our people around our people around our local streams our ngahere and our health. That's the choice."