HELEN WHITE (Labour): Tēnā koutou katoa. It is an honour to be here. While I was preparing for this speech, I was forwarded an email with helpful advice from a member of the judiciary. It reads as follows: "Remind her what a special opportunity she has. She can say what she likes—the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, section 14. It is a privileged occasion—Defamation Act, section 13. The ordinary rules of debate don't apply, and the Opposition have no right of reply. Most new MPs do not realise the possibilities for anarchy and spoil it by talking about their ideals and what brought them to Parliament, but she should not feel constrained by a lack of precedent." It is tempting. Likely to the relief of my party whips, I will not be defaming anyone today. But it occurred to me that it was likely no accident that this call to anarchy came from a person at the top of my profession who had taken on public office at the necessary personal cost of being able to freely express the frustrations that long experience in the law gives rise to.