I have a vision for New Zealand.

I have a vision for New Zealand that recognises and supports business as well as New Zealanders at every level of society; that encourages opportunity; that celebrates success; that rewards hard work; a New Zealand that grows.

I say that there is nothing wrong with this country that a change in attitudes wouldn't fix.

As a lawyer, I know that laws affect attitudes. Good laws help make good attitudes. Parliament makes the laws and shapes the attitudes and that's why I'm here.

I'm here to make a difference to those attitudes. I've told the people of Papakura what I stand for.

I stand for one standard of citizenship for all - for one Justice system for all, for one country, for one sovereignty.
Conversely, I don't stand for political correctness and I don't stand for dividing this country, my country, our country along the lines of race.

I stand for every young person knowing - as I did- that they can achieve anything they want - if they are prepared to use their talents, their energy and if they are prepared to make sacrifices.

Conversely, I do not stand for young women leaving school to go on the DPB because they think that's any easy option. It's not. It's a trap. I stand for a safety net not a welfare trap.

I stand for a robust Justice system that gives the Police the resources and, just as importantly, the backing, to sort out the criminal gangs. The gangs that manufacture the meth amphetamines currently fuelling much of the increase in violence in the South Auckland region. The gangs that fill the gaps left by absent or incompetent parents, that recruit from and are affiliated to the youth street gangs. The gangs that have turned whole chunks of New Zealand into cannabis plots. The gangs that are said to run the prisons.

I stand for business- particularly small business.

85 percent of business in New Zealand is small business. I know first hand what it is like to mortgage our home to go into business. I know first hand the hours and the money spent on completing silly little forms that probably go no where and which don't seem to achieve anything anyway.