Falloon AndrewANDREW FALLOON (National—Rangitata): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. It's a real pleasure to stand here today and take a call on the third reading of the Films Videos and Publications Classification (Interim Restriction Orders) Amendment Bill. I'd like to start by congratulating my good friend Mr Chris Bishop the MP for Hutt South. Chris had remarkable success not just in the Hutt South but also in having a remarkable number of members' bills drawn over his short career. As a new MP I hope that by taking a call tonight some of that good luck rubs off on me.The bill we're debating this afternoon is a fairly simple one. It makes a small but necessary change to the legislative and regulatory environment around classification. It fixes an anomaly in the law that allowed for films books and other publications to be banned unnecessarily because only two limited options were available to the president of the board of review: to either leave a publication unrestricted or to ban it entirely.This was the case as we've heard tonight with Ted Dawe's award-winning book Into the River which was the subject of an interim restriction order as a result of an appeal by Family First. Even Family First have accepted that the book should be available. All they wanted was a higher age classification applied to it. Family First did submit on the bill and said the following: Family First simply wanted the book restricted to an age-appropriate audience because of the material covered in the book." They note the book contains the "c" word nine times the "f" word 17 times the "s" word 16 times and the other "c" word 10 times. That's a legitimate position to have but not one I necessarily subscribe to. As I said in my maiden speech just a couple of weeks ago I managed to pick up a fairly colourful vocabulary on the pig farm at the age of 15 rather than from books. But unfortunately the only two choices that were available to the board of review were to either leave it unrestricted or ban it as they did for six weeks.I now want to turn to the changes that Mr Bishop's bill proposes. The bill will allow interim restriction orders to completely restrict access to a publication as they do now or to restrict it only to people who are at a certain age belong to certain classes such as tertiary students or are accessing the publication for a certain purpose such as film festivals. I want to particularly highlight the second of those: tertiary students. At the risk of getting into debating my university transcript like this House did just a few years ago for another member at one point in my university career I did actually take a film paper. It was my final year at university. I'd satisfied all the requirements for my political science major and unfortunately lost any ability to get a commerce degree as I had intended so I enrolled in a Māori in film course. It was a very enjoyable way to end my university career watching Once Were Warriors Patu! and Whale Rider and then writing I think 200- to 400-word short answers on them. I couldn't really tell you if any of the films that we watched had strong classifications on them but it did leave me with a pretty strong view that universities and polytechs are places of learning of debate and of challenging norms and it is important they have the freedom to do that.I'd like to congratulate the Justice Committee on their work in improving the bill and recommending it be supported with full support in this House. It's a committee I now sit on and I'm confident that we'll carry on with their good work. I do note that of the 10 members that sat on that committee just a year ago six of them are no longer in this House which I hope doesn't bode ill for the rest of us. I do note though that one of them has gone on to become Prime Minister so perhaps there is hope for some of us.I thank the four submitters who provided comment on the bill. As I mentioned one of them was Family First; also Shane Campbell the Office of Film and Literature Classification of films videos and publications and the Society for Promotion of Community Standards. It won't surprise many of you that there was some dissent and in fact 75 percent of those four submitters are in favour of it.I again congratulate Chris Bishop on an excellent bill and for pushing it through Parliament over the last 12 or 13 months. It's an excellent and most sensible change and I commend it to the House."