Heather Duplessy-Allen

China has reportedly sanctioned four New Zealand MPs for visiting Taiwan last month.

So after they came back from the visit, New Zealand First's David Wilson, Labour's Duncan Webb, National's Maureen Pugh and ACT's Laura McClure were told by our Parliament's clerk that they'd been banned from entering China, Hong Kong and Macau for a year unless they apologise.

Laura McClure is with us.

Hi, Laura.

Good morning, Heather.

Surprise or were you expecting it?

Have you spoken to the three others?

Are they going to apologise?

Do you think that other MPs are in the future going to be put off going to Taiwan at the risk of this happening to them?

Without making light of what China is doing here, because it's kind of a form of coercion, isn't it?

Is a year-long ban enough to put people off?

Yeah, Laura, thanks very much for talking us through it.

Laura McClure, ACT Party MP.

This is probably the most interesting argument I've come across against the LNG terminal.

By the way, apparently the government's going to make an announcement on the LNG terminal next week as to whether we're building this stupid thing or not.

Anyway, the argument is we shouldn't build the LNG terminal and rely on LNG, that gas, as a dry year backup.

We should burn diesel instead.

And this has come from a report that's been done by Sapir, who are consultants and have a reasonable amount of credibility in this area.

They argue LNG is just too expensive.

It's expensive to build the thing up front, right, the terminal.