SpeechJAMIE STRANGE (Labour—Hamilton East): After five and a half years in this House I finally have the opportunity to speak on my favourite subject: sport. I'd like to thank the Hon Grant Robertson for that opportunity to do so. Like many in this House I'm a big sports fan. In fact many New Zealanders are—it is very much intrinsically part of our culture as New Zealanders the aspect around playing sports.It's been exciting over the years seeing the development of sport in New Zealand. I remember when I grew up in rural New Zealand in the winter it was rugby and netball and in the summer it was cricket.Angie Warren-Clark: There might have been hockey though come on.JAMIE STRANGE: That was it—nah nah. In rural New Zealand where I grew up the options were very limited. Hon David Bennett: Pirongia.JAMIE STRANGE: It was Pirongia. The Hon David Bennett mentioned that—he knows my history well. So I ended up playing rugby for Pirongia and playing cricket for Pirongia. I went to Hamilton Boys' High School: I tried to make rugby teams; couldn't make it. In the seventh form I finally switched to football and made the first XI. So since then I've loved football and I know we've all got stories about the sports that we love.But look it's great to have a bill on sport and it's a very important bill and I will get into that. Most of my early memories in terms of watching sport have been just trying to see us beat Australia. It didn't matter what the sport was—it was as long as we beat Australia. And if we didn't beat Australia as long as someone else beat Australia. Now I hope that doesn't cause any offence to our Australian friends who we love dearly but we do have that rivalry there with Australia. And I'll give a brief shout-out: the women's world cup is coming this year and all the best to our Football Ferns in the women's world cup here in New Zealand.Sport is important for connection belonging and health. If I could touch on those three points the first one is in terms of connection: sport brings people together. Now there's plenty of other things in society that do that—you know music the arts etc.—but sport is one example of bringing people together. It's so important as a society that we have a strong community. If we don't have community really we have nothing. We're not as Margaret Thatcher once said an isolated group of individual individuals—Nicola Grigg: Are you quoting Margaret Thatcher? Excellent!JAMIE STRANGE: Ha ha! We're not an isolated group of individuals each with their own purposes. We are connected; we're are a community—that's who we are and sport very much brings people together. I remember my grandfather was president of the New Zealand Rugby Union back in 1984 from the small town of Collingwood. My grandma—before she passed away I remember interviewing her and asking her about community. She was on a dairy farm and she spoke about the fact that in the 1950s and 1960s before refrigeration people relied on community for their survival. With technology we don't need community for survival; we can survive on our own but we need community to thrive and sport is one of the key aspects that facilitates community and a thriving society.I've spent a lot of time on the sidelines of sport—of football basketball and other pitches while my children have been growing up. I think it's fair to say that I've seen a variety of interactions—some positive; some not so positive. Often at times unfortunately parents are trying to achieve their dreams through their children and you know often the children become pawns in a bigger game and it's not helpful for those children. So it's important that we do have some strong guidelines. The aspect around education is as important here in terms of educating not just our own children and then moving into adults who are playing but also those who are supporting. I think that parents play an absolutely key role in terms of instilling those values working alongside coaches.I see I'm sort of running out of time here but in the last sort of 30 seconds: the bill promotes advises and educates on integrity issues.Tim van de Molen: You've got another 5 minutes.JAMIE STRANGE: I like to be succinct—I like to be succinct. Short and sweet. I'm sure the members opposite will as well. So we did hear from the Minister particularly around what the bill does. I endorse the bill and I encourage people to make a submission. And keep playing sport New Zealanders.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Hon David Bennett five minutes.