Halbert Shanan; McKelvie IanSHANAN HALBERT (Labour—Northcote): Thank you Mr Speaker. It is a very shouty night in House tonight and we talk about the freedom of speech. Can I remind the House that this week we will celebrate and recognise Pink Shirt Day on Friday and that particular kaupapa will work to collectively stop bullying in our country. Yet tonight we're putting forward a piece of legislation that is quite counter to what we're asking. So I ask all members in this House tonight: on Friday when you wake up and turn up to this place will you be taking a photo in your pinks? Will you be having your Pink Shirt Day moment to celebrate anti-bullying? Yet on this Wednesday evening you're supporting a bill that puts forward the opportunity for freedom of speech in places that directly impacts negatively on people how they feel and their wellbeing.Also when we go to Pink Shirt Day—and yesterday out the front of our Parliament we raised the flags to celebrate and recognise the International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia Intersexism and Transphobia. And when we talk about freedom of speech freedom for who? For those that are transphobic? For those that are homophobic? Are those the people that you want to speak on university campuses? Are they the racists that you want to have the right to speak on our university campuses? Are those the people that you are putting forward in support of this particular bill? I throw you that question and I ask you to consider that this coming Friday on Pink Shirt Day.But if I come back to what we're putting forward like our member Swarbrick I am confused why the ACT Party would want to be putting more regulations on the tertiary institutions. Why would you want to do that? You don't stand for that. That's why this bill is so confused right? It aims for politics it aims for media grabs and we are about something more substantial in this House this evening.I look over to the comments of Penny Simmonds the member who was a former leader in the tertiary education sector. Can she actually tell us this evening that she would allow these people to speak on a campus openly on such subject matters at the Southern Institute of Technology? Would she do that and honestly has she obstructed academics on her campus—not to speak—in her past career? I would question where she sits on this bill even though she has played to the National Party narrative this evening.What we do have in our country is tertiary education rules that enable academics and all allied staff members in these tertiary institutions to kōrero to talk openly respectfully and academically to deconstruct reconstruct and talk about things that are important to people and communities; things that matter. But I come back to the start of my speech because the people that you are asking for in this particular bill are going to put forward kaupapa and discussions that hurt other people. They're not topics. They aren't topics the ones that you've talked about. They aren't topics where people aren't going to be hurt and you're asking them to stand up on university campuses and have their say. I oppose this bill. I oppose it once twice three times because that subject matter has no place in Aotearoa New Zealand. Can I also remind James who I respect on our Transport and Infrastructure Committee actually—a place where we do agree on some things but not on this bill—when we think of women's suffrage and Kate Sheppard that you mentioned when we think of the Springbok tour people had their say; they didn't need this bill in order to achieve their voice and to move this country forward. I do not support this bill and I do not commend it to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): Order! Just before I call the next speaker interjections should be witty funnily enough and they should be to the point and not altogether that frequent and frankly when you wear hearing aids it's like a constant groan in your ears and it's very boring.