The National Party opposes this bill because we do not believe it will in any way enhance or improve pastoral farming in the high country. We also believe that the provisions in it will fundamentally change the relationship that has existed between the pastoral leaseholder and the Crown for decades. It will change it from one of working partnership to one based on regulation and policing. It is punitive, it is pernicious, and it will bring an infringement regime that will do nothing but erode generations of goodwill between the two parties. Despite their best attempts, the Government has totally ignored submissions from the likes of the High Country Accord, which has said, "This law will create an adversarial system of management with rigid rules and complex processes that will increase costs, undermine the security of tenure granted by the 1948 Land Act, and will consequently undermine the incentives for enhanced stewardship of the land." That is in direct contrast and contradiction to the intention of the bill.