Dyson Ruth; Mallard TrevorHon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills): I do not know whether the member who has just resumed his seat is aware of this but we have microphones in front of us and there is a sound system throughout the whole building. There is no need to yell Mr Bennett. In fact if your microphone was off I would still be able to hear you too much to be honest. The arrogance of that member who thinks that he can come into this Parliament and dictate which other parties are represented—it is called a general election and enough people voted for New Zealand First that it is entitled to be here. All of us imagine how it would be if everyone else voted the same way as we wanted them to but that is not democracy. We have a healthy democracy in New Zealand and we end up with people in National ACT United Future the Greens New Zealand First and the Māori Party. Not all of us like it but it makes for a healthy democracy. So put away the arrogance Mr Bennett and think about what people outside in the real world actually voted for. To have a lecture on racism and race relations from that member whose party paid for billboards that said Iwi/Kiwi"—that is taking arrogance to a new level. I think an increasing number of people are saddened by what they know and understand and see as growing inequality in our country. That is what we have seen every year for the last 8 years. For many New Zealanders the dream that I grew up with the Kiwi Dream of being able to have a good education get a job that pays properly work hard and save and be able to buy a home of your own—that Kiwi Dream that I thought everyone would be able to grow up with is just slipping away because over the last 8 years house prices have gone up at a crazy level. There has been an over 62 percent increase in average house prices in New Zealand over the last 8 years. We know it is even worse in Auckland. You would have to save for years to have a deposit on the front doorstep of an Auckland home now. The average price is over a million dollars. Other than high-income earners which we all are in this House how many do we know who would just be able to get a job work hard save hard and have a deposit on a $1 million home in Auckland? How many? I am asking the National Government members. How many average people in your electorates do you know who would be able to do that—get a job work hard save hard and put a deposit on a house in Auckland for $1 million? A lot of people now just have that Kiwi Dream slipping away from them. We know that the gap between those who have and those who have not is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Is that because people on low incomes are lazy as Bill English would point out? I do not agree with him. I know many people on low incomes who work a lot harder than many members of this House and we are on very high incomes. We have a privileged position in this House but it does not mean that we should be patronising and dismissive of people who are on low incomes and who work as hard as they possibly can. If you look at every income group in New Zealand for the lowest two income groups particularly—the people who earn less than most other people in New Zealand—every year the percentage of people in those two income brackets who pay more than a third of their income on housing costs has gone up. So every year for the last 8 years the percentage of people on the lowest incomes who pay more than a third of their income on housing costs has gone up and at the very same time over those 8 years the percentage of the top bracket—the top 20 percent of income earners—who pay more than a third of their income on housing needs has gone down. So the highest-income earners pay less as a percentage of their income on housing while the two lowest income brackets pay more. How is that fair? That is on Minister Anne Tolley's department's own figures. Official Government figures say that the highest-income earners pay less and the lowest-income earners pay more. I do not think that is fair at all. Growing inequality in our country is just wrong. In my view and in Labour's view every single member of a New Zealand society and community should have a chance—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Barbara Kuriger—I would have called the member earlier if she had called loudly."