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Yeah, okay. Well, look, I I think that's something that we should should should follow up because uh, you know, we at that seminar in Wellington we talked about how do you strengthen democracy, how do you make sure it works, and how do you make sure that there's a level playing field in it? And I think um not stopping lobbying, not stopping any donations, but having total transparency over donations. We're we've actually got laws that do that at the moment under the electoral act, um, but it doesn't cap it. So you could put it a an enormous amount into a political party. One individual could, you know, that's uh that's we're getting billionaires moving to this country from Canada, um, maybe from the United States. And what I don't want to do is bring those sort of systems here where because you're a big wealthy individual, you think you can buy the politics of the place as well as conduct your business here. Well, good on you if you're conducting the business and you're doing it in a proper manner, uh, but our democracy's not for sale. So I'm I'm quite strong on that. I think we need tougher laws, and uh, I'd like to see the opposition parties, and I'd like to see the governing parties actually um commit themselves to that.