By setting up an adversarial system of management with rigid rules and complex processes, which will increase costs for high country farmers, this bill undermines the security of tenure granted by the Land Act 1948 some 73 years ago in the pastoral lease tenure, and it will consequently undermine the incentives for enhanced stewardship of the land which that security of tenure has delivered over the past 73 years. There has been no real consideration by this Government that leaseholders, who are often multigenerational guardians of the land, might be better than the Department of Conservation or LINZ, something that anyone who has visited these properties—as I have—would know to be true.