While we're on the subject of the past, I would like to just dwell there for a moment. Before I came to this fine House, I was a historian. I was a New Zealand historian, and I still consider myself to be one. Over the last days we have not seen a finer example of why it is this Government made the right call to teach New Zealand history in our schools; we could not have seen a finer example from the Opposition of what happens when someone is ignorant of their past. We could not have seen a finer example of someone who refuses to accept how we got to the places we got to today. The historians club is upset that it's from someone who purports to call himself a historian that we're seeing this particular behaviour, but it does give me some semblance of hope to see that even his own colleagues haven't backed him up—that his own colleagues have been as dismayed at the behaviour and the rhetoric that we have seen coming from the Opposition benches. 