RICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Tēnā koe, Madam Speaker. How great is it that the conversation has finally shifted from not how undeserving people on the benefit are, but by how much benefits need to go up so that people can live with dignity. For decades, people on the benefit, and front-line advocates, have been organising and campaigning to lift incomes so everyone can live with dignity, despite successive governments being hostile to people on the benefit, either by cutting income support or adding punitive sanctions as late as 2013 by the previous National Government. And while not many of us vividly remember the "mother of all Budgets", or were even alive to witness it, we have lived under its effects, which have meant a record number of people have needed food grants from Work and Income to survive.