Mooney JosephJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to make a short call on the Resale Right for Visual Artists Bill. This is a bill that the National Party supports. As has been I think mentioned in a few other speeches this is required by our free-trade agreements and we support it. I would say our artists in New Zealand are actually quite phenomenal and we've got some incredible art in this country and it's great to be able to support them. It certainly has been a challenging few years for many of our artists—among others—in this country. So it's great that we're able to do something that can help them. There has been some differences in views about how resale schemes should be established in New Zealand but this—we do support this. I'm just going to take the opportunity very briefly just to do a shout-out to some of the great art in my area of responsibility. In the great electorate of Southland we have Te Atamira which was founded only last year as a multipurpose arts and cultural space. This was a vision that Carroll Joynes and Abby McCormick O'Neill helped to drive forward people who have a deep experience in this field in Chicago and the United States and had a vision for that in our region which very much was supported by our region. Incredibly 130000 visits have happened since that was opened only last year and in fact there's an exhibition at the moment that's attracting a very broad—its locals and visitors who are interested in I think it's 11 different artists who are doing some quite fantastic work.Down in Gore we have the Eastern Southland Gallery incredibly led by a chap by the name of Jim Geddes who's a living legend. I'll just say that has an internationally significant exhibitions of the John Money wing and the Ralph Hotere gallery—one of the largest collections of Ralph Hotere in the country. It has had people from around the world and people who are very well-known around the world who have just quietly dropped in and had a look at it. So it's not always well-known in New Zealand but it's very well-known around the world about what an incredible collection it is. The gallery also is responsible for the development and care of the district art collection which focuses on early New Zealand Southland and contemporary New Zealand artists.Just finally I'll just mention also the Central Stories Museum and Gallery in Alexandra Central Otago which is also my electorate. This is responsible for the main public museum and art gallery for the Central Otago region and currently as we speak has an exhibition of Winterstellar 2023 which is an astrophotography exhibition which is their biggest and best yet. If anyone doesn't know the Southern hemisphere is the best place to see the galactic core the heart of our galaxy the Milky Way and we're close enough to the pole to see the Aurora Australis otherwise known as the Southern Lights. Central Otago is one of the best places in the country to see that incredible galaxy that we've got out there. It's great to have artists who reflect on that and bring that vision closer to us. I think what artists do is help reflect us back to ourselves and help us reflect on who we are as a people and a nation. So they do a fantastic thing. So with that we support this bill.