Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you for this opportunity to speak on the Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill that establishes a new Crown entity being the independent Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission. This is a board that will have seven to nine members and we've heard some of the different roles that they'll play. I am aware that I'm standing after and right next to a former high-performance athlete—I don't know if just former probably current as well. And this is something that's certainly not been a part of my life. But I have heard as we all have in the news of those high-performance athletes in the past number of years—Angie Warren-Clark said particularly in 2018—where there have been distressing situations and there has been bullying and it's very good to hear the bipartisan support today for this bill and the rejection of those negative situations. So we've heard as well that there's been a number of reviews undertaken and that there's been work going on internationally as well that demonstrate that there is a need to better protect our athletes—and others who participate—from harm. I think this is interesting—that the bill isn't just about sporting bodies; that it's also about wider recreation. Of course it's not just about high-performance sport where we're talking about sport; we're focusing as well on grassroots organisations. Talking of grass I do spend a lot of my winter Saturday mornings on the grass watching one of my children play football and it is amazing and always never ceases to amaze me how many volunteers give their time for those children's sports and of course adult sport as well. He's coached by somebody who doesn't have any children in that age range and he gives up his Saturday mornings and Wednesday nights to coach the team and it's amazing. So a lot of these grassroots organisations don't have a whole lot of time and money to implement codes. So the commission will be helping with expert advice and also—we heard from the Minister—pathways for resolution. It's optional to sign up to the codes and the optional nature of that is found in clause 21 where the word may" is used. Clause 21 is headed up: "Who is bound by integrity code". I think it's also interesting to look at the functions of the commission and these are at clause 13. If we are looking at the code parts of that it includes "to provide mechanisms for complaints" and "to provide accessible and culturally responsive mechanisms for resolution of disputes relating to integrity between persons or organisations involved in sport and organised physical recreation" also to "investigate matters relating to integrity" and to provide a disciplinary process for breaches of the integrity code. There are some other pieces of this bill that I thought was interesting as somebody who I think—I don't watch as much sport as other members of the House—Marja Lubeck: You've got no time; you work too hard.RACHEL BROOKING: I do. So some other interesting provisions are at clause 54 where there's a compulsory review within five years by the Minister of "how widely and effectively integrity codes have been implemented". The Minister must report that review to this House. Also interesting at clause 14 there are the requirements for the commission's procedures and in 14(1)(d) one of them is to "promote the best interests of children and young people". I'm very pleased to see that because of course it is a lot of children and young people who grow up in sports often in this wonderful—these amazing volunteers that I was talking about before but also it's those younger people that go on to become elite athletes. This really matters for them; we don't want our young people being bullied.So I want to acknowledge the work of the Minister and his real commitment to this issue. It's clearly very important to him and I commend it to the House."