payment, that we would be able to, within our first hundred days in the last Government, roll out a Families Package of $5.5 billion, and then go on to do things like index benefits to wages so that it would go up just a little bit more every April when those adjustments are made.
So we hear our wonderful Prime Minister talk about consensus building, about taking New Zealanders with us, and that’s what this is about. It is about enduring change. It is about not only making change but changing the narrative as we go so that, actually, we don’t have the vast majority of the general public coming out and condemning some of the poorest New Zealanders in our country. Those are some of the changes that have occurred that have not been spoken about much. It’s not just about the tangible policy changes; it’s about the attitudinal shift within our own country.
Someone—I think it might've been David Seymour—was criticising the Prime Minister for what he calls "slogans". Well, I don't call kindness a slogan, actually, and I think that we should be proud as a Government, as a political party, as a country, that, actually, that’s part of people’s everyday language now and that kindness is something that we value. I am looking forward to the next three years. Fa‘afetai lava.
DEPUTY SPEAKER: Kāti rā, kua mutu a tātou mahi mō tēnei rā.
[Finally, that concludes business for today.]
The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 December 2020. Ka kite anō.
The House adjourned at 5.02 p.m.
