This: gives a $10 billion boost to New Zealand’s economy over the first five years; includes transport projects to boost productivity and long-term growth; will upgrade and modernise land, air, and sea assets throughout regional New Zealand, Restarted contributions to the Super Fund, to help keep the cost of NZ Super affordable, Announced a $300 million Venture Capital Fund, to back creativity and productivity, Primary export revenue have soared to record highs, Balanced record levels of investment to resolve the long-term challenges facing New Zealand, while managing the books responsibly, Delivered sustainable surpluses, growth well ahead of the OECD average, and low debt that enabled a strong response to COVID-19, Injecting $3 billion to support our regions through the Provincial Growth Fund, Backing Māori land owners, creating new opportunities to drive growth in their regions, Focused on how we’re improving health, generating skills and knowledge, defeating poverty, and being responsible guardians of the environment, not only economic success, Addressing long-term economic challenges like building a sustainable economy and preparing for the jobs of the future, Pursuing ambitious trade policy to help New Zealand businesses succeed overseas, Signed the CPTPP, potentially delivering exporters $222 million tariff savings and launched free trade negotiations with the EU, Introduced measures to stop predatory lending that often impacts low-income families, Passed the landmark Zero Carbon Act, with a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, Delivered the strongest ever protections to clean up our rivers and lakes, Banned single-use plastic bags and committed to phasing out more single-use plastics, Stopped issuing new offshore oil and gas permits, Overhauling the Resource Management Act, because it hasn’t properly protected our environment, Provided the largest funding boost for the Department of Conservation since 2002, Taken action to protect the future of New Zealand’s endangered Māui and Hector’s dolphins, Started plating one billion trees by 2028, with 248 million already in the ground, Investing in local projects to improve the health of our waterways, restore mini wetlands and stabilise riverbanks, Investing in recycling infrastructure, including a recent boost of $124m for a number of initiatives across New Zealand, Started upgrading schools and hospitals to ensure they run on clean energy, Launched Te Mana o te Taio - Aoteoroa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy 2020, which sets a direction for the protection, restoration and sustainable use of our biodiversity, Addressed food waste by redirecting food to those in need, Reached an historic consensus with our farming sector to implement farm-level pricing of climate change emissions from the agriculture sector by 2025, Giving almost every state school a one-off capital injection of up to $400,000, the biggest capital injection for school maintenance funding in at least 25 years, Building new schools and classrooms for 100,000 students, with a plan to make sure we work with schools and communities to address increasing demand, Funding 623 Learning Support Coordinators to ensure children with diverse learning needs get the support they need to learn, supporting kids in more than 1,000 schools and kura, Launched and expanded Mana in Mahi, supporting employers to take on apprentices, and He Poutama Rangatahi, to tackle youth unemployment, increasing support and job opportunities for those most at risk in the labour market, Scrapped National Standards, after listening to teachers and principals, Taking the financial pressure off parents by increasing funding to decile 1-7 schools if they don’t ask parents for donations, Removed fees from NCEA and NZ Scholarship, helping more than 145,000 households and around 168,000 secondary students, Making sure New Zealand history is taught in all schools and kura by 2022, Brought back government funding for adult night classes, investing in Adult and Community Education to help providers meet the increased needs for training and upskilling and give more than 11,000 New Zealanders more opportunities to learn, Made targeted vocational training courses free for all ages, over the next two years will help people who have lost their jobs retrain and also allow new employees in some essential services to train on the job, Increasing the volume of Trades Academy places in secondary schools by 1,000 places a year from 2021, helping to build up our future skilled workforce, Established the Workforce Development Councils to strategically plan for the recovery of industries and jobs from the impact of COVID-19, Investing in New Zealand’s long-neglected regions through the Provincial Growth Fund, Backing Māori landowners by creating new opportunities to drive growth in their regions, Installed 100 rural mobile broadband towers, as part of our rural broadband roll-out, to get our regional communities and businesses digitally connected, Launched a bold plan to boost primary sector export earnings by $44 billion over the next decade, while protecting the environment and growing jobs, Protected the productivity of New Zealand’s vital beef and dairy sectors with a thorough and ongoing response to eradicate Mycoplasma Bovis, Protecting New Zealand’s most fertile and versatile land, to ensure it’s available for future primary production and is protected from inappropriate subdivision, use and development, Maintaining the viability of fresh vegetable production, through our new National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, Ramping up pest control programmes to protect farmers from costly pests like wilding pines and wallabies, Removed the cost of trades training in critical industries, including in agriculture, horticulture and viticulture, aquaculture and forestry, Backing the horticulture sector to seize new opportunities for growth and stay ahead of international competitors, including with funding to secure new imported plant varieties and breeding material, Introduced new regulations to strengthen our animal welfare system, Strengthen the National Animal Identification and Tracing system to ensure it’s an easy-to-use, world-class traceability system that keeps our primary sector safe. "We've created 92,000 jobs. We have banned offshore speculators. The video has gone viral with almost 58,000 likes and around 53,000 shares. Made an historic increase to the annual quota of refugees, lifting the quota from 1,000 to 1,500, Backed New Zealand exporters during COVID-19, including providing on-the-ground support to help local businesses connect with overseas markets and global partners, Initiated the Pacific Reset, our commitment to build deeper partnerships with Pacific nations and the expansion of our development programme there, Adopted the most significant statement on regional security by Pacific leaders in a generation, Upgraded our free trade agreement with Singapore, so Kiwis can visit Singapore, visa-free, for up to three months, Held a Pacific Conference on Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, in line with our proud nuclear-free history, Strengthening our bilateral cooperation with the EU on emissions trading systems, Led the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS), a first-of-its-kind agreement that will use trade rules to tackle climate change and other environmental issues, Building $6.8 billion dollars’ worth of transport projects across the country as part of the NZ Upgrade Programme, Investing over $700 million for shovel ready transport projects such as cycleways, walkways, ports and roads, to help kick-start the post-COVID-19 rebuild, Kicked off the rollout of 3,300kms of common sense road safety upgrades to save lives after years of the road toll rising, with over 2,500kms done so far including rumble strips, safer speeds, and side and median barriers, Committed co-funding for over 1,000 Emission Vehicle chargers nationwide, with more than 600 already installed, Made an unprecedented investment in public transport and walking and cycling improvements, to help tackle climate change, Started getting rail back on track after it was left in a state of ‘managed decline’, through investing $4.6 billion this term, Negotiated the landmark Let’s Get Wellington Moving package and quick wins like safer speeds in the CBD have already been rolled out, Plugged the $5.9b hole left in Auckland’s transport budget, and construction has started on the Eastern Busway, extra lanes on SH20B, Puhinui Interchange, Old Māngere Bridge replacement project, K Road Cycleway, Matakana Link Road, and Constellation Bus Station, Over doubled the funding New Zealand Search and Rescue, recreational boating safety and safety awareness receives to save lives, Secured $196 million for our Wellington rail package, which includes important upgrades for the Wairarapa line; without them, the line would have deteriorated with more and more disruptions to services, Extended the expiry of driver licences, WoFs, CoFs, and some vehicle certifications this year to help ease pressure off families and businesses during the pandemic, Kept essential freight flowing throughout the COVID crisis through our International Air Freight Capacity Scheme, Saved and funded the refurbishment of 15 electric trains that run between Hamilton and Palmerston North, Started planning for the Future of Rail with a ten year plan that lays out our Government’s vision to revitalise rail. This is what a government should be doing for its people. We've built more than 2,200 state houses. We've planted 140 million trees. A grinning Peters gathered his thoughts before going on to give his list of NZ First’s achievements. The rapid-fire list has been watched over 2 million times with citizens in other countries encouraging their leaders to take up the same challenge. world-politics, — Persephone (@pursephoney) November 3, 2019.