 M' healed everybody and thanks for the great turn out, just to let you know about a little bit more background. I've come up the southern motorway today to be here. I'm the son of South Auckland, I grew up in South Auckland and I've lived in South Auckland for most of my life. And I have some proud to say that. Now what I want to talk to today about is what I've called a view from the south and I want to offer you a perspective of some of the quite—I believe—shameful statistics around South Auckland. South Auckland, and the challenge that presents us as a city to become a more inclusive city. I'm not certain where the slide comes from. I think it's a joke that white people are rescued from South Auckland, but basically that's the open slide. Benjamin Disraeli said this in the Victorian England that he spoke of Britain and England, and he said, two nations between whom there is no intercourse, no sympathy, who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets, the rich and the poor. I think as a consequence of the work that Thomas Peggity has done with respect to rising inequality in the global society, I think we're tracing our way back to that sort of environment, that we have two sets of people who are completely ignorant of how the other part lives. South Auckland is, to a degree, perhaps a place in your mind rather than a place on the map, and it's not well-defined by a particular sort of geography. But I would suggest to you that it includes of six suburb, so Wotahu, Mangere, Papatoetoe, Wotara, Manurewa, which is my home suburb in Papakura. What I've done is just taken some images of the various parts of that place, and this image here, which you can't point to. The top right-hand corner is the image of my favourite football team, the mighty Manawa Marlins, who I must say the women are playing in the grand final at Mount Smart Stadium on the south. South Auckland is quite—the six suburb of South Auckland quite different ethnically. But overall Pacifica people are the most numerous, making up something like 40% of that population. The European Parkour, that surprisingly make up the second-biggest ethnic group, and Māori and Asian people more broadly defined make up the rest in equal measure. It's interesting to note too that one-third of all the Pacific people who live in New Zealand live in those six suburb. So it is a predominantly Pacific place, but it's not entirely. And one of the things you notice is if you had time to add up all those percentages, add up to more than 100%, because, of course, that multi-ethnicity to people identify with, and that is especially a characteristic of South Auckland. One of the several things here is just indicators of some of the challenges we face in South Auckland. Firstly, talking about declining home ownership. Just under one-half of households in the 2013 census were owned by the occupiers, as compared with about 35% or 36% of the rest of Auckland. So you can see that South Auckland is predominantly a tenant community. It doesn't have as much control over its environment as many other suburb and communities do, and in fact the rate in which home ownership was being converted into investment-driven rental property is two-and-a-half, three times what it was elsewhere in New Zealand and Auckland. If we look at the number of houses that have been built in South Auckland relative to the number of people that have moved there or been born there, we find that over the last five years or so that we've built one house for every seven people. Compared to one house for every four people across the rest of New Zealand, about one house for every two-and-a-half people across New Zealand. So is it any wonder that we're now starting to see that? The pressure on their housing stock starting to spill over was literally people living in doorways sleeping in cars with their children in car parks. It's a consequence of the serious neglect over the last 10 years, really, to actually provide any affordable housing in South Auckland. Looking at crime rates. One of the things, and it's difficult now to identify closely crime figures because of the way that the stats have changed a bit, and of course we know too that only probably around about a third or less of crime is actually reported, particularly serious assaults. So what we're seeing here in terms of reporting crime is a tip of the iceberg. But we know that in some parts of South Auckland in particular, the police district doesn't divide up South Auckland quite as I would like it. So you've got to take bits of sub-police districts and add them all together. But the two more central ones are Counties Manukau West and Counties Manukau Central. And the chances of recording an assault in those places is twice the rate that it is in the rest of Auckland and at least one-and-a-half times the rate for the whole of the Counties Manukau district. Similarly recorded break-ins are nearly 60% higher. So this is a place, as we probably know, and there was a headline in the Herald today about a youth fight in the streets of Margaret East. Those are fairly common representations of South Auckland. And it's regrettable, but that's in some respects the lived experience of many people. And I have to say most of us are as angry about that as you would be if you lived there. We certainly don't normalise or accept that it's just how we have to live. And if we look at rates of youth offending, the youth in South Auckland are probably 50% more likely to be apprehended for an offence. Whether that's because the police are better at apprehending criminals in South Auckland or whether it's because there's more offending, I don't know, but the reality is that we have a significant relative problem with youth offending in our suburbs. Then we pass into pass rates in NCA. Twice as many South Auckland secondary school students leave school without the NCA level one than the rest of Auckland. And if we look at the topping in the terms of level three and entry into places like this, the rate of South Auckland students achieving that level three NCA is only two thirds of what it is for the rest of Auckland. So we find that our young people face significant disadvantages and it's no wonder because this graph shows the distribution of students by decile in the schools. You'd expect, obviously, in a lovely, normal world that there's a 10% next decile, but you find that 55% of South Auckland children go to a decile one school and a total 77% go to a decile one and two school. And of all the children attending decile one and two schools in South Auckland and Auckland, 77% of them live in South Auckland. And only 2%, 1.8% in fact, of children who are attending a decile nine and ten school go to a school in South Auckland. And that includes King's College, which is actually in South Auckland. So you take King's College out, it's almost nobody, about 200 kids attend a decile nine and ten school. So it shows you just how concentrated this inequality and this relative disadvantage actually is. The whole series of things you could talk about with respect to that as to what happens to children who go to those schools and why, but it's a simple fact that there is this huge concentration of poor Aucklanders into these suburbs. I just want to end with a comment that John Key made and a speech he made in 2007. He said, we are seeing a dangerous drift towards social and economic exclusion. I know we can do better, he said. We have to do better because let's uncheck the problems of a growing class to affect all of us. And I just want to leave with that as an issue. Whether or not Mr Key's policies have subsequently addressed as a challenge is clearly something we might debate tonight. The reality is that I certainly agree with that analysis. And what I'd like to do is to offer three things, four ideas for us to become a more inclusive Auckland. For me it seems unlikely that South Auckland will be included in the wider Auckland way of life and until we make significant progress on the following three things. One is that we addressed entrenched education disadvantage, including the middle class privilege within the education system. Secondly, that we ensure that no young person Auckland-wide might just in South Auckland leave the educational training without a job. Thirdly, that we begin with some seriousness rather than just empty rhetoric to provide housing which is affordable, safe and secure. And finally, that we accept that if we want people not to live in poverty that we do need to pay them decent living wages in order for them to support their family. Those are the four ideas I want to leave with and thank you for your time. Thank you.