Simon Upton

And of course, I'm not suggesting that all the existing commissions be abolished, although I think a number of them could be folded into the commission for the future, but that kind of architecture is yet to be debated.

There will be Some commissioners like Simon Upton, the parliamentary commissioner for the environment, who's an officer of parliament, that's a slightly different function from the sort of commissions that you and I have been talking about.

But I'm very pleased that it's there.

It's raised in what I thought was a very clever way by the Opportunity Party, and I'll be watching the space.

Chris Bishop, in a way, and I'm sure this is not a compliment he wants at all, but it's become a bit of a Rod Muldoon here.

And if you look at people, if you look at what people like Simon Upton, other people are saying, there's an opportunity here for a pincer movement to attack the government's policies or the coalition's policies on both climate change and the fast track.

Just finally from me to Jane, if it's all right.

Jane, do you think that The government's legislation, retrospectively, to block the Mike Smith action is going to rebound on it spectacularly in this case because the whole process of discovery for it has made the government look absolutely awful.