Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): I commend the member Willow-Jean Prime who just resumed her seat. It's a beautiful language beautifully spoken. We live in a beautiful country. We are the children of pioneers. Every New Zealander if I know one thing about you it's that either you or your ancestors came here travelled further and more freely than anybody else for a better tomorrow and for a better future for their children. One of the most diverse countries on Earth it is bound together by that one simple fact that applies to every single one of us and I think to be a pioneering society is a beautiful feature of our country.Yet I lament that the Government in power today has little respect for human action for people exercising individual freedom under the law. There are some exceptions. The abortion law reform is long overdue and very welcome. I welcome the Government members—and Opposition members for that matter—who support my End of Life Choice Bill. But overwhelmingly the tenor of this Government is placing more and greater restrictions on what people can do. This Government puts in place so many bans they might as well be called the Taliban. Let's run through the list: plastic bags—banned; gold mining expansion by Oceana on the Coromandel—banned; offshore oil and gas exploration—banned; centre-fire semi-automatic rifles—banned; offshore investment in residential land in a country that has been short of capital for its entire history—banned; free speech—the Government says that it wants to restrict not only all of those physical things but the thoughts that it is legitimate to express freely in New Zealand. They've gone quiet about that in the recent months but let us hope that we will not find ourselves like the UK where we learnt just today that one of New Zealand's greatest academics Emeritus Professor James Flynn from Otago has had refusal from a publisher to publish his book because even an academic treatise about ironically freedom of speech might be illegal to publish in the UK.This is a Government of bans that denies human action and it replaces it with collectivist projects that inevitably fail. What are some of those projects that the Government has put in place collectively in place of banning individual action? Well we've seen KiwiBuild a byword these days for failure and disaster and the reasons for that were intuitive right from the beginning. The problem was not a lack of Government home-building; it was a lack of affordable sections on which to build homes. No builders even those employed by the Government can build an affordable home when the average section costs $700000. The ACT Party could have told the Government that—in fact we did. Then there's the hubs the ill-fated educational hubs that would usurp the role of communities electing boards of trustees—another collectivist idea that undermines individual freedom and human action and actually gets worse results for communities. What about the Commerce Commission and its market studies having a group of bureaucrats in Wellington trying to work out how much it's going to cost to get petrol and diesel to different parts of New Zealand—and of course we already know they got it all wrong. The Child Poverty Reduction Bill—already failing ironically by the measures that it set up. Then we have Ihumātao where ACT predicts the Government will find itself facing legal action from Fletcher's being sued for destroying their property rights as the hapless PM waded into a dispute and actually made it worse. The fact of the matter is that we can do a lot better in this country. [Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'd just remind the Minister for Women you can't move your seat.DAVID SEYMOUR: In this country we can be a place where children of pioneers enjoy freedom under the law and individuals make a difference in their own lives and the lives that they care about in lieu of the political grand Government schemes that this Government so often and so haplessly imposes upon us. That's why this country needs an ACT Party a party that stands for freedom because this country and all that is good about it is based on individual freedom under the law. Thank you Madam Speaker.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Before I call Michael Wood could I just remind the Minister that the Standing Orders are quite clear: she cannot move her seat to get a better position to interject and interjections should be rare and reasonable not a barrage.