Chen Naisi; Rurawhe AdrianNAISI CHEN (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise in this House extremely proud actually to be able to speak on this bill because I am a huge beneficiary of the Incorporated Societies Act. I recognise my colleague Elizabeth there talking about her experience of joining an incorporated society at 15 years old and becoming the treasurer. I reflect on my own journey especially to do with the music side of my life in terms of being able to join orchestras and choirs that were formed under the 1908 Act. I remember last time when I got up to speak in this House and I commented about how that particular Act was passed before I was born. I got quite a bit of flak from my colleagues about it and so today I can safely say that the Act is old enough to have been legislated before everyone in this House was born. I can say that without any controversy. But that just goes to show just how old the Act is.As an MP and a candidate beforehand I think we've all been privileged to build long-lasting and meaningful relationships with many incorporated societies in our respective electorates and communities and I especially in the Chinese community am no exception. Through my journey of interacting with these incorporated societies I realise there are some very very exceptional societies out there who do so much mahi for our community. They are a place where our community can gather and especially for a migrant community they are a source of information. People feel like they have a sense of belonging when they come together and meet every week or every month and they also sense a collective voice so they can find some sort of strength and unity. But obviously we know through our experiences that not every day is a smooth-sailing day and sometimes incorporated societies do fall and that's where I think that this bill in terms of the dispute resolution mechanisms that we are putting into it is going to be extremely helpful so that we can actually spell out what happens when things aren't always so right.Just continuing on with the music analogy I learnt when I was singing in a choir that we are only as good as our weakest singer. What that means I think in terms of our community as well is that this bill will ensure that the bottom line gets strengthened so that no incorporated society falls through and that starting with this bill there are mechanisms in there to make sure that we strengthen each and every society that gets incorporated under this bill to make sure that they all have the facility and the knowledge to run themselves as very smooth societies.I've always recognised that there is also a need for training no matter whether it's in the governance space or the leadership space. I think it's really important that now that we've prescribed all of these inbuilt mechanisms to run a society properly I really do look forward to popularising this bill which will hopefully pass and become an Act so that incorporated societies through this upgrade of our law will be able to upgrade their infrastructure internally and so that their people will be trained to be better governors of these different organisations so that our community collectively will find strength. On that note I commend this bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Maureen Pugh—five minutes.