O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Before me sits an irony-free zone. We've just had the Leader of the Opposition stand up and talk for I think it was up to 15 minutes—I think he might've run a little short—about people conducting behaviour that he didn't approve of talking about leadership while sitting behind him—and at that stage the House was full—was someone who leaked all his details not a week ago.So here he was standing here moving. No wonder he was moving so much because clearly there would have been a little red mark on his back that he wouldn't have wanted to settle anywhere between his shoulder blades. To stand here while all that is happening—boy the stitching on some of those seats must be coming apart considering how much buttocks moving squeezing would have been going on as that absolutely ironic tirade came out from the Leader of the Opposition.Just the week before last I was fortunate enough to be in Canberra with a select committee. We sat there behind the Liberal Party benches as we saw the coup building before our very eyes. We had the pleasure of being out with the Speaker out with the President of the Senate and many other MPs on that Monday night when it was all happening. So what we did is we saw—we understand when we see this—a coup in progress and boy it's good to sit here and watch and see a coup in progress. Oh Mr Mitchell you're laughing. Mr Mitchell it's funny; as I watched Peter Dutton I thought Ah Peter Dutton. Who in the Opposition fits the profile of Peter Dutton most?DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! I know it's a very broad debate but there is a topic and I would like the member to come to that topic.GREG O'CONNOR: Thank you for your direction Madam Deputy Speaker. I'll just finish perhaps on that honourable member. As I say I just thought—and I was nudging and there were several of us watching. We thought "Who fits what role in this particular place?" and I thought the Peter Dutton of the Opposition is the man I'd watch who I'd be moving—speaking of having little sniper's rifle markers on your back; yeah we know who's most likely to have one of them too. So I'll be watching Mr Mitchell—I'll be watching. Of course there was Julie Bishop there. Well I looked about—who's the Julie Bishop in there? Well there were a few contenders there. Blonde hair—I thought yeah that's a whole field we've opened up here.And of course who was the one that came through? Oh Mr Morrison. Who's the real Mr Morrison? Who's the one that's actually going to come through? Who's going to win? Well I'm just sitting watching. We'll watch that—it's great. I sit up the back there most of the time. It's a great place to watch; you can watch the body language. So we'll be taking a few bets on our side of the House. In fact I might even run a book on it and we'll see.So coming back from Australia I feel like I'm fairly accomplished in watching coups take place and boy I loved what I saw over there. But on a more serious note Madam Deputy Speaker—and I'll take your advice and come back to the topic—DEPUTY SPEAKER: To the topic would be nice. To the topic—yes.GREG O'CONNOR: Sorry Madam Deputy Speaker. I was speaking too loud—DEPUTY SPEAKER: No no I want you to speak to the topic. It would be very refreshing.GREG O'CONNOR: Oh right—back to the topic. When I came to this House—and I'm a very new member—one thing I've always respected and of course Mr Mitchell will be the same is good decisive leadership—tinged also with kindness. We know where we stand and boy on this side we know where we stand now and that's absolutely necessary. Consistency is also what we like and the word Oravida comes to mind there about consistency. I've loved it again when I've heard the Opposition on the other side talking about what's happened over here. But just going back to Oravida I sat there and at that stage I—Hon Paula Bennett: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. I really reluctantly interrupt the speaker because I do respect a general debate but actually this is blatantly about Clare Curran and her being stood down. We've not heard her name mentioned once. We've not seen that addressed at all and we're at nearly five minutes and I think that it does need to be addressed.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I actually support that point of order. I have spoken to the member twice and if the member does not come to the topic for this urgent debate—it's not a general debate; it's an urgent debate—then I will have to curtail his time.GREG O'CONNOR: Thank you for your direction there Madam Deputy Speaker. I will come now—because I think I do like to build some context for my point in this debate. One of my main points in this debate is this: look I agree with my colleague; I think I've seen what's happened with the Hon Clare Curran and I've seen what's happened. She's been really the personification of what we understand now is the expected standard of behaviour. We will be left with no doubt on this side of the House.But can I just make a little more serious point around this. I in no way justify what's happened and absolutely agree with the decision of Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister around this. But can I just finish by saying it will be a shame if Ministers can't actually have conversations with people—casual conversations. I'm not justifying what happened but it would be a shame if as a result of this Ministers never actually got to have conversations off the grid.But thank you very much for the opportunity to speak Madam Deputy Speaker and I'll just say I'm very proud to be part of an organisation of a party that shows the decisive leadership that has been shown on this occasion."