Davidson ReubenREUBEN DAVIDSON (Labour—Christchurch East): Thank you Madam Chair. I think it's really important before I get into my questions to establish a little bit of context. Specifically I want to address the immediate issues that we're seeing in news media and broadcast news media in Aotearoa New Zealand. I want to start by acknowledging that I think we didn't move fast enough to address really significant change like the imminent closure of Newshub and the significant changes to news services available from Television New Zealand.One of the things I think that we didn't acknowledge and one of the questions that I will get to on that is the impacts that this has on jobs. Those jobs are people. There were conversations that would have been happening in the evenings when we were not addressing those issues here in the House with people going home from meetings that were filmed that they walked out of after hearing the news. Ten minutes later they're in front of cameras having to answer questions about it and then having to go home and look their family in the eyes around the dinner table during difficult economic and financial times and not have the certainty that they would have a job. And I think that it's really disappointing that the Government wasn't able to move faster wasn't able to engage wasn't able to address those concerns. And in some instances in fact coalition partners—some members of the Government—made really insensitive comments about that very fact and I think that's pretty disappointing.I think it's easy for us to lose sight of the people in media who so often sit up here like cherubs staring down at us during question time. They're not shooting arrows of love they're truth-seeking missiles which is why some members try to avoid them on the tiles because they try to avoid those questions. But not only do those reporters those journalists those people who work in news media—they don't just put themselves at risk here in the House trying to ask questions of us they actually literally go into war zones. They've put themselves in front of artillery in front of gunfire in front of missiles. They've put themselves in the real face of danger to make sure that they can tell stories and speak the truth to issues going on globally so that New Zealanders can be informed and aware of those. And the work that they do shapes our future because it charts and tracks our history. The significance of that should not be lost on the Minister or on anyone in here around the impacts that cuts and losses in our media sector have.Now the Minister spoke just previously about habits changing and about people potentially being less inclined to seek out or watch news content. Now there's actually a little more subtlety to that in my opinion. People more than ever want to seek out news they want to seek out factual information. The thing that has changed is the platforms on which they get that news from. Currently that's seen a significant shift in gatekeepers. Those gatekeepers have shifted from being local media platforms—in many cases locally and independently - owned media platforms—and it has shifted instead to some of the largest and most powerful media entities; in fact largest and most powerful companies we have seen in history. And so it is our responsibility in this House to ensure that we can guarantee and secure a plurality of media for New Zealanders.So my questions in finishing are: what industry feedback has the Minister seen in the last year from New Zealand's major news media players about the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill? Secondly what feedback has the Minister seen from smaller independent media outlets over the same period? Has the Minister seen any opposition to the bill; and if so who has that opposition come from? Those are my questions for the Minister thank you.