Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Just on that particular point of legislation the people of Nelson love the commercial lease legislation and I—David Seymour: One-termer. You'll be a one-termer.RACHEL BOYACK: Well just in response to the previous member David Seymour they do—they do. We've had many many people in the retail and accommodation sectors struggling small businesses struggling to pay their rent. These are businesses that are going to not survive. So by introducing that legislation Mr Seymour—thank you for raising it tonight it's always good to talk about what we're doing to support small business.But on the point of this legislation that's introduced tonight the Protection of Journalists' Sources Bill it's a wonderful night in Parliament when we can all speak almost in unison about the importance of journalism and that the House tonight is actually here tonight to stand up for the role that journalism plays in our society. I want to acknowledge my colleague Louisa Wall and former MP Clare Curran who was the driving force behind this bill.Look journalists play an incredibly important role around our world and recently some members from across this House met with a group of journalists based in Myanmar about some of the struggles that they are facing as journalists to be able to put stories into the public domain about what is being faced in Myanmar. Recently we've also seen journalists on the front line in Afghanistan playing a critical role ensuring that the world sees what's happening with the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.Journalists are good people. I have many friends who are journalists. They are very good people. They often go—yes yes yes" like the member opposite and I hope we get to hear from her tonight. Journalists are good people. I have many friends who went into journalism wanting to do good wanting to tell stories wanting to help shape the narrative in the public that does good. I have a family member who is a journalist; my uncle is a journalist and known to a few people in this House. He's my Uncle Nick who writes for the Dominion Post—doesn't write about me thankfully. He could tell stories—well he could tell a story—I'll tell this story. He could tell a story about the time he convinced me to tell my primary school colleagues that he was a genius which I dutifully did.But just getting onto the point about investigative journalism my uncle before he became a journalist wrote books. He wrote books about the memories and experiences of our World War I veterans—fantastic books. While he didn't need to protect the people he was writing about—they willingly told their stories—there are many people who do wish to tell their stories often anonymously. One of the things that I've seen as an advocate over many years is people often wishing to speak truth to power to tell their story in a way that gets the story out there but without putting them at risk. Often it's been tenants wanting to put stories into the public domain about landlords about difficulties they've had in their personal lives. I'm really really grateful—one of the things I'm really really grateful for is to the journalists that I've worked with who have actually been willing to tell those stories anonymously; make sure they were put out accurately but protected that person.So there are two critical things that this bill does. The first is that it does expand the definition of journalist as we see it to include investigative journalism. But the other important element is that it does put clearer requirements on the police around how searches are conducted. So this bill is an important one for the House to look at. It's important for the select committee to look at it and look at what improvements can be made. I look forward to its continued progression through the House and I commend the bill to the House."