This bill was first drafted back in 2012, and while the bill has not changed too much, the international environment has. The challenges confronting us have become increasingly more complex: COVID has highlighted the impact of growing inequality; competition for scarce resources; climate change impacts; geostrategic competition; the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; terrorism; human rights abuses; and the list goes on. This also reinforces the enduring importance of New Zealand's belief in the use of multilateral avenues to be able to influence change and, over time, the international rules and norms that should be contextualised for the challenges that we are facing today. We do so because our voice is greater when we speak together with other like-minded States and because a rules-based order protects the rights and interests of smaller States.