Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Mr Speaker. Over the last 24 hours or so and the rest of this long weekend there will be tens of thousands of people travelling to the beautiful Coromandel electorate—tourists visitors from domestic places around the country and indeed international visitors. They will be enjoying all that the wonderful Coromandel has to offer. There's no doubt that some of the tourist infrastructure is under strain because mine is a region that exemplifies some of the pressures that the Ministers and the Government in this bill seek to alleviate.Throughout this debate we have not sought to argue against the concept—the broad thrust of what is trying to be achieved here. What we have argued about is the woeful inadequate process. This has been a process of shocking proportion. Here we are sitting under urgency on a Saturday morning of a long weekend and the Government has had 18 nearly 19 probably 20 long months to bring this piece of legislation to the House. They've chosen to do it on the back of a botched Budget under urgency with no scrutiny of a select committee with no opportunity for tourist operators in my electorate to make submissions to offer their point of view and to have their say. That's an appalling process for a piece of legislation that actually could be so much better if the Government had attempted to do a little bit more work on it.Some would say—and indeed some on this side of the House have said—that this is a knee-jerk taxation reaction from the Government. This Government does have a policy of tax tax and more tax. This is just another good example of that. But to describe it as a knee-jerk reaction would be to overstate the case because knee-jerk" implies something quick and fast and spontaneous. It's more like an arthritic process where a very slow-moving aching bone has been finally moved into action.We argued during the course of the first and second stages of this bill about process and during the committee stage we had probably the best example of why this bill is so fraught. This is an immigration bill. This bill seeks to amend the principal Act—the Immigration Act. It's not a tourism piece of legislation. A piece of legislation like this deserves to have its own principal piece of legislation and if the Government was really keen on it that's what they would do. We had the ludicrous situation during committee stage where the Minister who was proposing sponsoring and moving this bill through the House was actually sitting in the Chamber. The Minister of Tourism was sitting in the chair and a point of order had to be taken because even the Government didn't understand the basics of who was responsible for this piece of legislation.We argued about the lack of definition. We know that in this amendment bill there is a definition of "conservation" and it's the definition that exists in the Conservation Act. But there is no definition of "tourism". There is no defined careful thought-out process around how this bill is going to work. What's more there's no thought-out clear obvious pathway for defining how the revenue—the $80 million that's expected to be collected—is going to be allocated where it's going to go what the definition of "tourism projects" is going to be what the definition of "conservation projects" is going to be who's going to have access to this money how it's going to be allocated and who by.We don't even know which Minister is going to be responsible. In the bill there is a definition that is as loose as a goose about Ministers. In fact my colleagues on this side of the House spoke at length about that during the debate. So here we have a Minister who made in his contribution a waffly sort of vague approach at trying to address some of the questions that we've raised on this side of the House. He said that there was a cold plate of contempt. Well the cold plate of contempt is actually just to impose taxes. There's nothing that says more about a cold plate of contempt than a Government that just wants to raise taxes at every possible opportunity and this is just another example of another tax on the back of a botched Budget."