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Thank you for inviting me to speak this morning. It's a great pleasure to be able to address the NZAMI Annual Conference for the third time, but for the first time as Minister of Immigration.

Thank you for inviting me to talk with you this morning. I was asked specifically to discuss what business regards as two of the more contentious areas of government policy – accident compensation and changes to employment legislation.

Mr Speaker, I move that the Accident Insurance (Transitional Provisions) Bill 1999 be now read [a second time].