Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): I'm pleased to speak in this general debate but first can I acknowledge what a shambolic and failed Government we have. Firstly let's start with their own measure. They said We are going to be a Government that is kind." Well let's look at the last three days. Labour issued an attack ad on Simon Bridges. The Green Party put out an ad mocking Simon Bridges' accent. In question time we had a Minister of the Crown—David Parker—referring to a member of our front bench as sleeping in a crypt. SPEAKER: That matter has been the subject of a point of order and a ruling. Hon NIKKI KAYE: Then we had a speech from the member of the New Zealand First Party saying that our finance spokesperson has Tourette's. I would say to New Zealand that this is a hypocritical Government that is not kind and in the last few days we have seen their true colours. The second thing is they have absolutely no plan. Why do we know that they have no plan? Well what have Ministers been doing in the last 48 hours? What we've seen is they don't even have a legislative agenda that they can carry through. That's why we've got Ministers coming down to the House filibustering their own bills. But not only are they filibustering their own bills; they're filibustering bills that we support. This is a Government that has failed on every major aspect of its policy agenda. KiwiBuild is a failure. It doesn't matter that they've got another Minister; the reality is they're not building houses. The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is a failure again because we know that there's a whole lot of dodgy deals going on in terms of the PGF and again people can see through that. We've got people dying in our health system and we've got a situation where we still have strikes in education. After 12 months we've got 1900 principals whom the Minister's doing nothing about but we have strikes going on because they haven't settled. So this is a Government that by its own measures doesn't have a plan is filibustering its own bills is hypocritical when it comes to being compassionate and kind—SPEAKER: Order! Order! Hon NIKKI KAYE: —because it doesn't actually do that and then finally its major flagship programmes are failing. But I don't want to deliver all of my speech in a negative way so now I turn to some very positive developments in New Zealand and I want to acknowledge the Minister for Sport and Recreation. It has been a wonderful couple of weeks for New Zealand in terms of the Black Caps and our Silver Fern netball players. I want to say look I had the privilege of being at Lord's when the Black Caps had the final and it was a pretty thrilling match. I do think I was one of only a few people standing up and cheering because I was in a sea of English fans but I do want to acknowledge what has been said by the Minister and also the Prime Minister and Simon Bridges. The way that they held themselves with that loss has been something that has been acknowledged internationally but also by England and they have been humble and gracious. The rules to need to change. Mr Speaker as a former Minister of Sport I'm sure you have very strong views on this. They do need to change—that is a conversation for another day and the International Cricket Council is looking at this—but ultimately it is gracious to acknowledge that England won the match. But we have a brilliant future in terms of cricket because as we saw it came down to a couple of precious moments and unfortunately the Black Caps couldn't get there. We think of their families. I watched them at Lord's. I watched the anticipation in those final moments and what it is like for the spouse of a Black Cap and the families who have to deal with that loss as well. So we just acknowledge them. Turning to the Silver Ferns again I was in Liverpool with the Parly Ferns. It was an amazing victory. Can I acknowledge Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki who's in the House. I know there was a little bit of extra pressure potentially on the Silver Ferns when we wore our gold medals to the parliamentary reception but they managed to get through that pressure and win. Can I acknowledge Noeline Taurua. She is recognised internationally now as one of the best netball coaches in the world. The "fossils"—there was a lot of criticism about their age but what I can say is they have really stepped up there are layers in the team; we should be incredibly proud of them. But the legacy should not be a whole lot of celebrations over a couple of days; there's a huge amount to do for women in sport. It's great that the sponsors and potentially the Government will step up to sort this prize money issue but our legacy must be ensuring there is greater equity around women in sport. That means dealing with the discrimination in community funding—Netball New Zealand does not have the same playing field as rugby as cricket. National will be prosecuting these issues very strongly. Can I acknowledge the $10 million that's been put up for women in sport but we have a lot more to do to make sure that every little girl in New Zealand grows up with the same opportunities that young boys do. That should be the legacy of the last few weeks of sport."