What the Government could have done, and should have done, is gone back to first principles and asked: what is the purpose of the Overseas Investment Act? Well, surely it is to stop people who would do harm to New Zealanders—people who might, for instance, want to have a military installation, people who might want to acquire land for strategic purposes, or people who might want to somehow use their ownership to leverage New Zealand politics. Those might be good reasons to actually prevent people investing in New Zealand because they wanted to do harm to New Zealanders. That's what a good regime would look like—so you can invest so long as you're not doing harm. 