Brownlee GerryHon GERRY BROWNLEE (National): Can I start by thanking all members of the House for their contribution on this particular bill. Some of them I don't agree with obviously but others have made pretty solid points. I want to just reflect for a moment on the speech by the Hon Nanaia Mahuta in which she said that there is the prospect of the Government itself doing something more in the future. I think some of the breadth of what she indicated needs to be dealt with in terms of sanctions and New Zealand's autonomous ability to raise sanctions was somewhat wide of the mark because in this case I'm simply looking at a bill that will identify mainly individuals mainly regimes and mainly entities who offend against the laws of New Zealand and against our view of how the international community should behave. You know there was the suggestion that we've passed anti-slavery law in this last Parliament and that's true—we have and it's a good thing. But let's be very clear: there is no capacity in any law in New Zealand to go after an individual slaver. This bill would enable that to happen. We have a list of terror organisations. They are outlawed in New Zealand—can't operate can't be here—but where is the law that lets us go after an individual terrorist? They don't exist. So I think that there is an opportunity that's lost here.While the members have I think often referred to what their research notes might've said—that the bill is deficient in a number of ways it would need a whole lot of work a select committee would take too much time—it comes back to that statement that was pointed out by my colleague Joseph Mooney the statement from Minister Mahuta where she said that sanctions like this or provisions like this should be a last resort. Well doesn't that imply as Mr Mooney said that there is no last resort at the moment? Doesn't it effectively agree that if the United Nations isn't on board with something that we find offensive there's nothing—no statement from New Zealand. And I gave that list to the House of where New Zealand has been in my opinion ominously silent.Then there is the interesting comment also from the Minister that there are economic and trade considerations. Well I would like to see those explained. I'd like to see why New Zealand's foreign policy its independent foreign policy is constrained by economic and trade concerns. What does that mean? It means that the Government has made a conscious trade-off between making statements about things that we consider important as a nation and the dollars that come into this country. Now that might make sense but you can't then say that actually we're very good at getting alongside countries very good at getting alongside individuals and using our vast range of diplomatic skills to negotiate through different problems if there is no addressing of what the problem is.I think there's a bit of a head in the sand approach being taken by the analysis of this bill. If it was so wrong but as many of the speakers over there have said good in other parts why not adopt it as a Government bill? Doesn't have to be in my name—could be in the name of the Government could be rewritten by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). They could've moved a little bit in their views since 2012—although sometimes I wonder if that's the case. Or it could've been perhaps sent to a select committee and then referred back to the House. There's a range of things that could've happened. So many members over there called for debate but then tonight this'll be shut and I'll bet Madam Chair—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! Madam Speaker.Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: —that we do not Madam Speaker—Madam Speaker—see another bill of this type from the Government in this term of Parliament.There's a timidness about this Government and if it was ever on display and demonstrated as a view held by partner countries that we have had such long associations with it was the absolute sidelining of New Zealand through the AUKUS arrangement that's been put in place just recently.Hon Member: Oh come on! Come on!Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: Now there they go over there. They say Oh come on!" We know—we know—that directly from MFAT the Prime Minister got called an hour before the public announcement after the Australian UK and US media had all been told about it.Hon Member: That member knows better than this.Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: That's how good a friend we are. That's how valuable we are. The junior Minister over there thinks he knows what's going on at the seventh floor; he simply doesn't. It is indicative of just how far we have slipped in international standing and this defeat tonight won't help it."