O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Anyone with a sense of history could go and have a look through the Hansard and they will find that the same sorts of terrible doom and gloom speeches were made by the Opposition when the nuclear ships decision was made and so often throughout history. Here's an absolutely classic speech of someone who is absolutely locked into the status quo because that member represents people who are absolutely advantaged by the status quo. Well transformation means actually that we've got to start thinking about what our future world will look like and yes it means that there will be a bit of discomfort but only with an understanding of where we're going will we come up with the necessary science and necessary changes. I actually have confidence that we will get there.I go back to growing up on a farm. I remember growing up when we used to have all of our effluent going straight into the local stream and that was as a right—of course we could do that! Then those damned commies from the local council came along and made us dig a cesspit an effluent pond—a settling pond! How dare they! It was our inalienable right to actually put our effluent where we wanted! Then they made us dig a double one so that not only did it settle once it settled twice. Then we could actually whitebait in the same creek it was going into because actually we suddenly realised the whitebait came up because the cow manure wasn't going in. That is actually an example that in those cases unless we're actually forced to open up and say There is another way—a better way to do it."—we won't do it. So just have faith and remember those who think that doom and gloom will happen: go back and have a look at the Hansard—see the doom and gloom that was going to happen from those same speakers from exactly the same place when the decision was made among others around nuclear because I can just imagine that speaker being exactly the sort of person who would have said that.I'd just like to take the couple of minutes left to me to just change the subject slightly. We're still in a place in the House where we are still reeling slightly from what happened in Christchurch on 15 March but I don't want to dwell on that. I mean that's often been spoken about but what I want to dwell on for a second is that what we have really learnt now—there will be an inquiry; we will learn much more—and the public learned and was absolutely astounded by was the ease of access to semi-automatic weapons. OK we'll fix it. Again I won't dwell on that but that was no surprise to anybody who understood how that industry worked. Certainly where I come from I've stood in front of a select committee and predicted all those things would happen but until we had a tragedy nothing was done about it and that caused me to reflect on what it is about New Zealand society.I mean again we look at what happened with methamphetamine. When that arrived there were all sorts of warnings. There were those who were close and saw what was happening but it wasn't until we had the tragedies it wasn't until the tragedies—quite well documented; the William Duane Bells the Antonie Dixons and Millie Elder daughter of Paul Holmes—it wasn't till those things happened and we saw it in public that the public of New Zealand dropped their jaws and some political action was taken. That political action we saw eventually became the Methamphetamine Action Plan. I actually reflect now on one of the other problems that we have inherited as a Government—how badly that failed—because actually we saw just recently the water tests that have come out that show the extent of the problem we have with methamphetamine in this country. OK it's been accepted; we now know we've got to do something about it but I'll actually put it down to nothing being done in the previous Government. All the talk about "hard on crime hard on drugs" that we hear—we hear it often—but it actually got extremely worse under them. It got much worse during that time.The other thing that happened as a result of that—and again I look at another emerging problem—that actually boiled over into the public was organised crime. Again all these things are very heavily related and I have to say we talk about some of the problems we've inherited from the last Government. There was a police Minister in 2009 who stood here when the Rebels Motorcycle Club was coming to New Zealand and stood and said "They will be crushed."—they would crush that gang; they would never be allowed to become established in New Zealand. What is the huge problem we have in New Zealand? The rise of Australian organised crime which is changing the crime scene in New Zealand. The 501s—so known—are Australian criminals exported to New Zealand and when did it all start? The previous Prime Minister but two actually had the best relationship had little sleepovers at the Lodge and what happened? At the same time as this wonderful relationship and sleepovers it was the time when the problem we have now got—the rise of criminals coming here—was sown. Thank you Mr Speaker."