Hon GERRY BROWNLEE (National): We are this afternoon debating the Address in Reply. That is the reply from the Parliament to the address read by the Governor-General on the formation of the last Government. It is, effectively, the Government's address to the nation about its intentions for the three years to come. And it can only be described as the most vacuous document that's ever been put toward the people of New Zealand by a Government that has the sort of majority mandate that we see from the current Government. What that indicates, I think, is a degree of timidness, a degree of uncertainty, and a degree of simply not knowing which way to head in these turbulent times. 