Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you for the opportunity to take a call on my parliamentary colleague Chris Bishop's excellent Film Videos and Publications Classification (Interim Restriction Order Classification) Amendment Bill. I echo my other colleagues who have congratulated him. I have had a member's bill in the ballot for—God knows how long; ever since I came into Parliament in 2008. I have not been that lucky and Chris has been very lucky to have had two bills drawn from the ballot. So I congratulate him.I used to make G-rated television programmes; that is family viewing on a Sunday morning. The G-rating means no violence no anything and it has to be viewable by all the family. I was just thinking about classification and what could have gone wrong. I remember an incident when one of my reporters had done a story about wrestling. It was obviously wrestling—it is not really real; it is just make believe. One of them used a foil plate to make it look like he was bashing somebody over the head with it. It was foil but the classification office thought it was a little too violent and I remember having to re-edit that particular scene because it was seen as too violent. So I do know one or two things about classification and ratings.I totally understand what Tracey Martin was talking about in terms of the content of a book that should be relooked at. As a parent raising a young teenager I used to constantly worry about what was in a book. I had to trust that the classification on the book or the video game or the video was correct. You cannot always monitor what the content is. As a parent you cannot always read the book before you give it to your child. You have to trust that it is in fact the correct classification.However I do believe that the 6-week ban might have been an overreaction perhaps. There were other milder classifications that they could have gone to but the law did not actually allow that. Mr Bishop put forward this bill due to the situation that happened last year as other members have said. The situation in law is not acceptable in that it limits creativity and the potential of our creative communities when they know that the professional censors may overclassify their work and they may be unable to sell or publish while they challenge the decision.Talking about the concerns of parents over certain ratings and whatever I think Adrian was talking about how children who are now 14 live a very different life from when we were 14. I was thinking back to when I was a child and going to the movies with my parents and my parents' restrictions on certain aspects of the movies. My parents were big fans of 007 and went to see Roger Moore. There were lots of romantic scenes and scenes that were a little bit more amorous. My parents' way of restricting our viewing was to call out: Children." We understood what that meant. My brother and I had to hide our eyes and my mother would close our ears with her fingers and that was our way of having our viewing restricted. That is how we grew up.I think different cultures have different ways of dealing with these things. I grew up in Korea where there are no overt romantic or sex scenes on television. Usually it was about family things so we did not have to worry about that. But having grown up in that society and then coming to New Zealand and now seeing a whole lot of different varieties of movies and texts from around the world I think the censors and the classification office have major work to do.In summary I believe that Mr Bishop's bill is an excellent piece of legislation and I am sure you will find that out. I am sure that the select committee process will bring out that maybe there are other things that you might have to work on. Perhaps you could improve the bill. Maybe there are other areas apart from texts; maybe it is videos as well that you could extend it to. I would like to once again congratulate Mr Bishop on the excellent job of being very lucky in getting his bill drawn. I wish him good luck through the select committee process. I am very jealous that I am not on the Justice and Electoral Committee to sit through this. I commend this bill."