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Five away from six. Listen, we have got the full list of the changes that the government's planning to make to the treaty clauses and this by the way is a leak and I'm going to get to that in a minute but I'm just going to run you through these nine changes. We've not had these before until today. So the changes are across nine acts. In five pieces of law they're planning to repeal the treaty reference altogether. This is the Education and Training Act, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act, Land Transport Management Act, the Organic. Organic Products and Production Act, the Smoke-Free Environments and Regulated Products Act. I mean, you've got to wonder why in God's name there's any reference to the treaty in any of those acts in any rate. But anyway, so five of them are coming out. Then in two acts, the clauses will be repealed and consolidated because there are duplications in the acts already. This is the Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998 and the Plant Variety Rights Act 2022. Then there are two more acts and the clauses should be made more specific, apparently. The Data and Statistics Act 2020 and the Data and Statistics Act 2020. and Statistics Act 2020. The treaty clause in this act requires statisticians to recognise and respect the Crown's responsibility to give effect to the treaty principles by recognising Māori interests. And basically what the government's arguing is that's not specific enough about what those Māori interests are. And then the second one is the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996. Lord, isn't this boring? So boring, isn't it? Requires all persons exercising powers or functions to... Actions to take into account the treaty principles, again too broad, and then on top of that there are 10 other acts where the maximum obligation on these people should just be to take into account. Anyway, the problem here is that we're not supposed to know about this at the moment. This is a leak. And for obvious reasons, we're not supposed to know about it because the government knows this is going to get contentious and there's going to be another heek going to Parliament maybe and it's going to be everyone is going to get worked up about it. But what appears to have happened here is that Paul Goldsmith and Shane Jones wrote to the National Iwi Chairs Forum to ask advice. And in that letter. That letter that they ask advice in is the letter that suddenly makes its way into the public. And now we know what the changes are. So I feel like if I was giving the government advice, I would say, hmm, maybe don't trust the National Emory Chairs Forum with what you're planning to do. Just a hint. I don't know. It's up to you if you want to. By the way, just quick update on what's going on with donations. New Zealand first up to now, $475,000 in donations. Act. $432,000 in donations national, $280,000. New Zealand first $475,000. Act 432 national 280. New Zealand first in the lead. Donations are always a good litmus test on where the people with money think the influence is going to lie after the election. New Zealand first. Anyway, we'll deal with Santana Minerals next.