Martin TraceyHon TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Madam Chairperson Tolley. Thank you very much. Just to take a call on the Education Amendment Bill and just to the speaker Damien O'Connor who resumed his seat—we don't have foreign students anymore; we have international students. Just so you know foreign" is a very old-fashioned word associated with colonialism and now we have international students. So you wouldn't be considered an international student sir—and I do not mean you Madam Chair.If I can speak to Part 1 "Amendments to principal Act" can I first just compliment the Minister on clause 4 which amends section 60A(1)(ba) to remove the requirement that the Minister publish national standards. Can I compliment you on having the courage to deliver that for New Zealand children quite frankly. Can I also compliment you on clause 5 which amends section 61(4)(a) and means that a school charter is no longer required to include—the wrong bill. I do apologise ma'am. I do apologise.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I'm frantically looking through to see where this is!Hon TRACEY MARTIN: I may have to actually give over the floor while I—this is what happens when one is a hard-working Minister. One finds that one has more pieces of legislation to speak on than one would like.So if I actually do go to Part 1 of this particular bill which is the Education (Tertiary Education and Other Matters) Amendment Bill—and I still wish to actually compliment the Minister Chris Hipkins because there are amendments that he has made right now that are very pertinent to today's school environment. And I take on board the rarking up from the Opposition members because of course what we're undoing is some of the silliness that they put into place.So if we go the provision after section 4(2) in clause 5 we see new section 2A which says that if an international student's conduct is in breach of the contract of enrolment the board of the school may take appropriate disciplinary action against the student.Hon Christopher Finlayson: We knew you were thick but we'd think filibustering would be a bit more effective than this.Hon TRACEY MARTIN: Having in the first person—Mr Finlayson please stop. One wants to speak about education not necessarily about your failings. So if we take into consideration the first person in this what we have had is we've had schools having to deal with international students that have breached several levels of their contract and mostly—Jami-Lee Ross: Why is she in Fletcher's seat? Didn't she get the memo?Hon TRACEY MARTIN: —that is around drug taking or other offences that a domestic student would be held to account for would be suspended for—Mr Jami-Lee Ross—and possibly excluded from the school because they have broken the school rules. And what we are trying to do here and what the Minister quite rightly is trying to do here is make sure that when international students—which are a large part of the market for our secondary school environment. It's a positive thing for New Zealand society. It's the interaction between our young people and young people from other nations and the strength inside that interaction is that it is much more difficult to make a decision—that you believe you know a country from what is portrayed to you in the media when you individually know people from that nation and that is the strength of the international student industry inside our secondary schools.But the schools must have the opportunity to make sure that their school rules are followed and that is what gave rise to this sort of piece of legislation—to make sure in circumstances where an international student or the agent actually that made money from them was able to take the school to task or was able to actually stop the school from implementing the school rules that any domestic student would have to follow because supposedly by paying money there was some exemption to that. That is why this is a very important piece of legislation from that perspective.I know many schools are looking forward to this piece of legislation passing through into law so that they can be confident that when they manage their international student body that when they market overseas and that when agents who make a commission off seeking those students and they can be held to account in the same way that domestic students are held to account.So I again compliment the Minister. I endorse the bill on behalf of New Zealand First. We recognise that this is something that has been needed and that schools have been calling out for and so we'll definitely support the bill going forward."