CHRIS BISHOP: Ha, ha! The Speaker said to me, "The hippies can't afford the houses any more." Having recently got a Government valuation on my house in Pētone, I suspect that's right. And my sense is that actually Mr Speaker's right. Times have moved on. The deep battles of the 1990s and the early 2000s in Pētone will probably not happen any more. But it will be intriguing. I'm sure Max Stewart will write me various furious emails about it and other things. 