Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): Look I rise to take a call on this bill. National opposes this bill. Firstly I think it is important to state absolutely very clearly that on this side of the House we support a fair workplace and we do understand that there is a really delicate balance to be had between what are workers' rights and also the need to be constantly vigilant around where we have exploitation.I believe that there are a number of areas where National has improved the law but we have been very focused on ensuring that if we get that balance out of step the reality is there will be an economic consequence. It is correct that under this Government we have a pretty extraordinary situation with coronavirus. We have huge economic impacts that people are predicting. We've got an export education industry that is in significant disarray. This is relevant to this bill in that the conversation that many New Zealanders are having—whether it's the 90 percent of small businesses that we have in New Zealand—is what can we be doing to ensure that people survive what is a pretty tumultuous period.So we do want to raise on behalf of the Opposition the timing of this and that brings me to what my learned colleague Scott Simpson has mentioned. The reality is that it is relevant that this was promised within the first 100 days. We know that this is a broken promise and that it wasn't delivered in the first 100 days and that's not unlike hundreds of other promises across what the Government has said. In education there are about 50 that are undelivered and we just do put on the record that this is a promise that has been significantly delayed.The second issue that I want to raise is actually the importance of the cultural and creative sector and jobs. So let's go back and let's actually accept on the record here today that the Government is trying to rewrite history. I know that it was a difficult period. There were different views around the Hobbit law" but let's remember why this law came into place. The reality is there was a stoush around The Lord of the Rings. There were concerns that it could go to another country. There were significant issues raised at the time. Sir Peter Jackson obviously went on national TV in quite a very public dispute with lead actors in New Zealand but the reality is that New Zealand has reaped billions of dollars of economic development as a result of the growth in the film industry and a number of productions that have come here.So we do put on record the history behind this law. It wasn't that people were trying to be unfair in terms of workplace relations; it was about ensuring that we retain jobs in New Zealand and we ensure that the creative sector has the ability to have those jobs.I think in terms of the substance of the bill again Scott Simpson has raised a range of issues around both collective bargaining and what this means—I know Todd McClay has said some of this stuff publicly—in terms of pay rates and what we think will actually be the impact of this bill. We do note that the working group—again one of the many hundreds of working groups set up by this Government—actually said that they believed that they were satisfied with the status quo. So while on this side of the House we recognise that it's very important to have a balanced workplace relations framework we do want to put on the record the billions of dollars of economic development that have been created the importance and the backdrop that this bill is going through Parliament and the importance of a fair process around this bill.The question that I would ask of the Minister is: why is this bill—of course we understand that you've already broken your promise—being rammed through in a truncated time period—[Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order!Hon NIKKI KAYE: You can't stand in this House and try and be hypocritical—oh I don't know that I can say that—DEPUTY SPEAKER: No you can't. Hon NIKKI KAYE: —and criticise the last National Government—[Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Come on that is a barrage.Hon NIKKI KAYE: —for a bad process and then on the other hand try and push it through in a truncated process.So we do put on the record here in this House the fact that there is a truncated process being argued for and that it is important that we hear the different perspectives of the debate both from workers but also from people who have put up arguments around the creative sector and jobs and what this will mean for film production. We look forward to the debate at the select committee. Thank you."