Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise to take a call on behalf of the Green Party also surprisingly in support of the Remuneration Authority Legislation Bill controversial as it seems to be. Though actually I'm going to change tack and actually have my words mean what I say unlike Simon Bridges' speech which mostly seemed to be kind of sliding under the radar.So this is a pretty simple and technical bill actually. It's following through on a review by MartinJenkins from 2018 looking at whether the setting for judicial and statutory officers' pay should be—was it being appropriately managed through the Cabinet fund process? They concluded that community magistrates disputes tribunal referees environment commissioners deputy environment commissioners are judicial decision makers and their remuneration should be determined independently of Government by the Remuneration Authority and that there were some grey areas in coverage from the Cabinet processes which was effectively set by the executive that gave while not super close—but the ability for executive to influence the work of the judiciary by setting pay rates and influencing those pay rates.So this bill amends the Remuneration Authority Act 1977 and six other Acts to transfer responsibility for determining the remuneration for the fees following judicial officers: the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the Human Rights Review Tribunal community magistrates of the District Court environment commissioners and deputy environment commissioners of the Environment Court members and deputy chairs of the Immigration and Protection Tribunal referees of the disputes tribunal and tenancy adjudicators of the Tenancy Tribunal.So this is important and I think the last speech gave us the history of some of the times of where the judicial independence really protected the people from governing arrangements that had gone awry. It is something that is really important for us to protect. It is central to public trust and ensuring that shifting this to the Remuneration Authority I think also increases a sense of fairness and transparency when it comes the pay scale of judiciary and judicial officers and in particular for those decision makers whose work impacts on the rights and welfare of the public. The Greens would say it's also important that pay scales remain reflective of the important and difficult work being done by the group covered by this bill. They respectively make decisions affecting people's liberty in fair processing criminal proceedings access to our human rights and non-discrimination laws environment protections and the rights of renters to secure adequate housing among other things; so playing a pretty critical role in our society. We want to make sure that that work is not undermined by any potential undercutting of their pay that could unintentionally or intentionally force people out of doing that work.So I guess the next steps beyond this bill are for there to be fairness and transparency measures right across our public sector and our society indeed where all of the really critical roles in our society are fairly paid and relative to each other. So the Greens are happy to support this bill.