van Velden BrookeBROOKE VAN VELDEN (Deputy Leader—ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. It is a pleasure to rise tonight on the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm Minimisation) Amendment Bill at its first reading and I rise on behalf of my ACT Party colleagues in opposition. I do want to note that this is a conscience vote but all 10 of my ACT colleagues have suggested to me they are voting in opposition and I am here speaking on their behalf.I wanted to only raise three main objections to this bill tonight but firstly for context I think what Chlöe Swarbrick has done here has had really good intentions of wanting to reduce harm related to alcohol but just having a good intention does not always mean that it will be a good policy or it will be a good outcome. I want to raise three points and the first is natural justice the second is the reality of sports clubs up and down New Zealand and the third is a little hint of hypocrisy.I'll start with the first. I think it's important that we shouldn't remove natural justice in law just because you don't like a certain product or you don't like a certain type of company. In clause 15 of this bill it removes part of the appeal process by removing section 170(c) which requires the licensing authority to consider and determine appeals against elements of draft local alcohol policies. There are many Kiwi families and Kiwi small-business owners who work really hard to create a company and create a business and they could end up in a situation where a lot of hard work that's gone into their business is for naught because the local council decides to change plans and there's nothing that they can say about that.I think it's really important that where businesses are affected they do have a right to appeal and a right to actually have their say. I think it's important no matter what that company is—whether it's alcohol or otherwise—it's important that we have natural justice in our laws. There are consequences of this bill on our small businesses and members of our community and they have a right to their voice.The second is about the reality of Kiwi sports clubs. This bill wants to ban a lot of sports advertising especially where it comes to alcohol advertising at sports and it says in Part 2 that it would prevent any sponsorship of sport in New Zealand by alcohol brands going from affecting players to teams to venues to broadcasting to merchandise. A lot of sports clubs in New Zealand rely on fundraising but they also rely on money from organisations giving them sponsorship and one part of this that we wholeheartedly oppose is the idea that within six months small community organisations and sports clubs will have to find new ways to raise funds when they might be in the middle of a sports season and find that they don't have any revenue for next year to keep their club open and operating because this law says that within six months of coming into force those clubs wouldn't be able to take alcohol advertising. That's going to have a real-life impact on our small clubs that operate in our communities and that will have a detrimental effect on people who genuinely want to give back to their community and people who genuinely want to have good sport in their community for their entire family.Number three is a really important point here in new section 396H inserted by clause 17 which says there's an exemption for participation in certain events notably what seems to be boats participating in international races when New Zealand is a port of call for that race. It has been raised by many of my ACT Party colleagues that it seems that Chlöe Swarbrick wants to ban alcohol advertising in all areas of sport except that one little part that's right in the heart of Auckland Central—the America's Cup. We oppose this bill.