Strange JamieJAMIE STRANGE (Labour—Hamilton East): Mr Speaker thank you for the opportunity to take a call on this bill this evening. There's nothing like the last hour of a members' day as we head towards the close and the final couple of speeches of the night. Hopefully this speech will be sufficiently interesting that members will be focused. Obviously we're looking at the freedom camping bill and I'd like to acknowledge Maureen Pugh for her work on this bill. It has been widely acknowledged from all parties that there is a significant issue in this area that does need to be addressed and so the member is certainly accurate in her assumption of the issues. We heard from the Minister there—the Hon Stuart Nash the Minister of Tourism—around his plans and his view was quite clearly that there are important issues in this area but that he does not want to block up the select committee process with this bill. But he will be bringing a bill to the House soon.I'd like to touch on an aspect around tourism and just explore our brand that we have. We have a very strong brand in New Zealand which has been built upon by successive Governments over many years and that brand is very much around clean green" pure New Zealand. We have built that brand very well. It's been a consistent brand for many years and look by and large it is certainly an accurate brand. However we can always do better and I think most people in this House would acknowledge that and the area of freedom camping is an area that we can do better and those arguments have been quite clearly outlined tonight in terms of some of the issues. The member Maureen Pugh accurately highlighted some of them and the Minister has also talked about those.Now this aspect around "100% Pure"—there is a rather unique opportunity that we have at the moment as a country in this COVID environment in that we don't have tourists coming to New Zealand. Now tourists will start coming again from overseas hopefully soon. We're obviously all working together towards that when it's safe to do so and when tourists do start coming back to New Zealand in a safe manner we have the opportunity to look at what sort of tourism sector we want to have in New Zealand. Normally there's not an opportunity for a reset like this so this is fairly unique. So I would like to acknowledge the work that the Minister is doing in this area to effectively reimagine tourism in terms of what type of tourist we want where we want tourists to go and particularly the impact that tourists have on New Zealand's environment.There is an aspect around the social licence as well for tourists and this social licence is granted by local communities. We have heard from some local communities that that social licence prior to COVID appeared to be running a little bit thin and certainly many of us heard that particularly in this area of the freedom camping aspects. So there's the aspect of a social licence and the aspect of the opportunity to reimagine tourism in New Zealand. There's an opportunity for us to protect and restore our natural environment moving forward. I understand that prior to COVID we had around 800000 people per year go through the Milford Sound. Now when you go overseas you often see that Milford Sound on the advertising brochures—it's normally the Milford Sound in Hamilton on the advertising brochures that we see overseas so these two areas are particularly important for our branding. Some members are saying that they haven't seen that one. I can certainly assure all members that that's certainly accurate when you're overseas. So look the reality is that having 800000 people through the Milford Sound is not sustainable so we must protect our natural environment. We must ensure we can deliver a high-quality tourism experience and the Minister is absolutely committed to this. I'm sort of running out of time to go into it but the Minister did a consultation document and the document received extensive feedback and that will form the basis of the legislation he will bring to the House. Thank you Mr Speaker."