ACT believes that sunlight is the best medicine; however, given the direction set out in the terms of reference and the exposure draft, and the direction set by this Government in some very poorly thought-out national policy statements and environmental regulations around fresh water and indigenous biodiversity, they set the tone for a Government's resource management reforms which are designed not to enable development and not to focus on sustainable communities and what they need to have a good environment but also high-paying jobs and healthy communities into the future. In fact, what it does is set up a preservation regime which would have been a fantasy for environmental activists in the 1970s and 1980s, and which it appears to have taken another 40 years to bring about.