INGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): I stand against this bill, for three reasons. It's recognised in law and in ethics that freedom of speech is not absolute. Secondly, it's incredibly ironic and hypocritical for ACT to suggest that what they are doing is anything except limiting the self-determination of academic institutions; itself a lasso on free speech. And thirdly, as seductive as it is to look at universities as a group of institutions in their own right, actually the focus around free speech needs to be on content, not on place. So it's a red herring and can lead to all sorts of other questions about where we might want to make freedom of speech absolute and not look at the harm that is caused.