Thank you, Madam Speaker. For the last 18 months, the rural sector has been treated as a metaphorical soft target, a tirade of forced change. All the while, as the Deputy Prime Minister says, the primary sector has continued to perform strongly. We have continually been targeted by regulatory overreach. Well, of course we have performed strongly: we're Kiwi farmers, arguably the best in the world. Yet all too often we are faced with runaway regulation that often fails the logic or practical sniff test. It was never going to be hard to imagine the likes of Groundswell NZ getting much support from the rural sector and the urban sector alike. 