Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): All members are honourable Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of ACT in support of this third reading. As others have said I think it's important we get this done before Parliament's rules require the House to lift at 10 so I'll be very brief. Brooke van Velden our foreign affairs spokesperson and deputy in ACT has I think done a very good job in two excellent speeches in laying out ACT's position. If I could pick up on a few of those themes.First of all it's crystal clear that there is a case of right and wrong here. There is a liberal democracy a self-determining country that was harming nobody that chose to consider coming closer to other countries that share those values as we share them and has been illegally barbarically and thuggishly attacked. There's no question where we stand and I'm proud as a New Zealander that there's no question in this House of where our values stand in such a conflict.I reiterate what a few people have said that I have many Russian-born Kiwi friends. I've known a lot of Russians throughout my life. Some of them have reported to me even in just the last couple of weeks that they face discrimination. And another thing that's clear as James Shaw said very well is they are wonderful people. It's not their fault that the politicians that they have are even worse than the ones that you find in other countries. It is not their war; it is Vladimir Putin's war. And it's a wonderful thing that the world is putting the walls up and shutting them down and shutting them out. In fact tonight Vladimir can't even get a Big Mac. And that is a very important signal that has been sent not just by Governments but by citizens and companies around the world: that there is clearly right and wrong and we don't tolerate their behaviour.There was a time where I think it was fair to say that New Zealand appeared to be the weakest link in the West. You saw it in The Wall Street Journal and published around the world that perhaps our country could be the place where those trying to assist Vladimir Putin could filter their ill-gotten gains for that purpose. Well tonight Parliament unites to ensure that we will have the legislative tools to prevent that from happening.Finally we now find ourselves as a country involved in a clash of civilisations and a clash of ideals and it shouldn't be lost on us that as the country that most depends on the ideals of a rules-based order of collective security it is critical as Brooke van Velden said that we play our part and really re-evaluate what this change in the world order means for us that we ensure that we are prepared militarily for no longer living in what Helen Clark called a benign strategic environment" and that we are prepared strategically and logistically for a world where the supply chains—that used to cross borders so long as there was a willing buyer and a willing seller—may be divided by geopolitical considerations in a way we haven't had to think about since the Cold War. And when you think about things like fertiliser for an agricultural economy like New Zealand that stuff becomes practical. So I urge our Government to think very hard about New Zealand's overall strategy in the changing world that this wanton barbaric violence has heralded over in Europe.And finally as others have said to the Ukrainian people those who live amongst us in New Zealand and also those who are there defending their country—people who only two weeks ago were working out what to buy at the supermarket have had to pick up a rifle flee their country and attack incoming tanks people trying to take away their statehood their sovereignty and their lives. Our heart goes out to you. Our support is with you and I hope that our Government will soon be showing that it is more than just words that we back you with. We should be backing you with weaponry with sanctions and with every ounce of willpower and resource that New Zealand can dispose for the purpose. We finally once again support this Russia Sanctions Bill. Thank you Mr Speaker."