Martin TraceyHon TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Can I join with the colleague Amy Adams who's just resumed her seat and thank the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians group for the camellias that they have given us. They come from an artist on the East Coast in the Hon Anne Tolley's area. She's worn stunning examples of this artist's work before. They are each individually numbered. There are currently 149 of these in existence. So I thank them very much for something that I can pass on to my daughter and hopefully through to my grandchildren.We do all walk in the footsteps of others and I want to take this moment to acknowledge those women who have participated in politics who have never sought to be in this House. To those women who over the years have organised the cake stalls the raffles and the fund-raising dinners and who are electorate committee chairs and secretaries and treasurers and committee members—they sometimes even more than those of us who have been elected to this place have been the backbone of New Zealand's democracy for decades.I want to acknowledge my maternal great-grandmother who when her grandchildren were abandoned her granddaughter being two and her grandson being five disobeyed the instructions from her husband to bring back only the boy because he could work—and I confess she was a great fan of Robert Muldoon. I want to acknowledge my paternal grandmother who when one of her granddaughters became a single teen parent said It's just a baby. We can manage." I want to acknowledge my mother who campaigned for Gary Knapp in East Coast Bays and then helped to establish a new political party 25 years ago this year. I watched her commitment to her country and her belief that it needed something different than what had been offered before even in those moments when it threatened her own marriage. I want to acknowledge my daughter who even when she's called a feminazi continues to challenge the unconscious bias she meets.The first election I ran in was the 2011 election. The first phone call I got after I was surprisingly elected was from I think it was the New Zealand Herald. The reporter asked me not unlike Ms Adams "How are you going to balance your children with your housework and being an MP?" I asked the gentleman what Mark Mitchell had said because I said "Mark Mitchell's got a bigger house than me and he's got more children." So that's not a knock at Mark Mitchell; he is a fantastic father and a wonderful husband. But there was silence on the end of the phone because I don't believe Mr Mitchell had been asked the same question. Then Campbell Live showed up at my house and there were two lovely young men to interview me but they just kept saying again and again and again how amazing it was that a stay-at-home mum was going to Parliament. "That's amazing! Isn't that amazing? That's amazing that a stay-at-home mum is going to go to Parliament!"One of the things that we need to be aware of in this House and sometimes we forget it is that we are watched. We are constantly watched by girls and by boys. So when we use and say certain things in this House like perhaps when a female parliamentarian is being very passionate about a topic and the tone of her voice rises perhaps we need to be a bit more careful when the next speaker stands to make sure we don't use the words "shrill" "squeaking" or "screech". Those are words that are used quite often to get girls to lower their voice to get girls to be quiet. One of the pieces of advice I got when I first came into this House after I'd obviously got far too passionate about a couple of topics was "Lower your chin and lower your voice." That person gave me that piece of advice to protect me from what was at that time members on the other side of the House who would use that to identify or to try and "calm" a woman down over a topic. We are watched in this House. We are watched.Recently a member of this House stood and belittled some of the voluntary and community work that stay-at-home mums do on boards of trustees. We are trying to get more women into this House. When we belittle the skills that they gain during the periods of time when they are out of the workforce they see us. So as my colleagues have said we have somewhere to go. We must continue to be aware that we are watched. But I want to acknowledge the male colleagues in this House who stand up every day for us who are part of the team and who make sure that we're all just getting on with the job for New Zealand. Kia ora. Thank you."