This Labour Government voted down my Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) demanding a health workforce strategy. The workforce is exhausted, and we are not a welcoming international environment. If Andrew Little had kept his promise to fully implement the safer nursing accord, if he hadn't instituted a pay freeze for nurses, and if he had kept his pay negotiation promises, maybe we would have had more than just three critical care nurses employed to April in his much vaunted and then delayed Kiwi Health Jobs campaign—a sure reflection of our international perception. 