Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I do rise as I think others have done throughout today and tonight by first acknowledging that it is the anniversary of March 15 the terror attacks in Christchurch and our thoughts are with the victims of that attack and also with our Muslim community around Aotearoa. I rise to support this bill. I congratulate both the Hon Ginny Andersen and my friend Angie Warren-Clark for bringing it to the House and shepherding it through and also the members of the Justice Committee. It sounds like it was a complex and engaged committee process that has resulted as we can all see in improvements. This is a piece of legislation that will make the world a little safer and I think it is a bit overdue in terms of the recognition that we all—including young people—live a great deal of our lives in online spaces now. The harm that happens in the so-called real world can often be either started in online spaces exasperated by online lives or actually can happen in online spaces itself as can sexual offences against children. So to have a freestanding offence will help the courts and it will help young people and it will help the service providers and others who support our communities to both prevent and also restore and—in terms of the offenders—rehabilitate. Currently before this legislation passes our courts for years and years have been dealing with what's called grooming-type offences as an aggravating factor of child sexual offending once it has happened and has escalated to a point that the Crimes Act actually then kicks in. This piece of legislation will mean that we can start that work before more serious harm happens—before children are interfered with or violated in far more serious ways. So to mislead a young person with the intent to subsequently have arranged meetings or to essentially hide or lie about the age or identity of the offender—it feels like we've known about this for so so long and that's why I say that this is a piece of legislation that is almost overdue. But it's great that it is in fact coming to the House and it also is great to see us recognise the types of harms that young people do suffer as a result of this type of offending. So to gain a young person's trust to coerce them and to silence them—these are all things that we've known happen in terms of child sexual offending which more often than not thus far has happened at the hands of people that children have known in their lives. But it is being replicated in a way where a child gets to know the person in online spaces and the coercion the silencing and the trust-building can happen in online spaces in just the same way as we've always known it happens in the home.I hope that this is the beginning of our House of Representatives and us as lawmakers recognising all the different types of harm that can happen in online spaces from things like revenge porn and identity theft to hate speech and extremism. But to say also that this piece of legislation is only the legislative part of what we need to support young people to be safe from harm in online spaces—we need a lot more education a lot more community-based support consent education standardised sex education in our schools which we currently don't have to recognise that young people need to be empowered to protect themselves and to be safe as part of our communities with the kind of respect and trust that we all deserve. So I commend this bill to the House.