Smith NickHon Dr NICK SMITH (National—Nelson): I want to contrast the Government's claims of the year of delivery with the broken promises and the incompetence that has occurred in the justice portfolio area. Can we firstly start with the big justice reforms that we were promised by the Government nearly two years ago? Whether it's been three-strikes whether it's been a whole series of bills the Government has actually been extending sentences—not the big reform that was proposed. Then we've got the taskforce that's been set up for justice reform of which the wheels have fallen off with the resignations of Warren Young and Jarrod Gilbert. Such is the embarrassment and the lack of delivery. Even if we look at the inquiry that the Government has done into children's care in State institutions we've just had the resignation of former Governor-General Anand Satyanand—just another example of the shemozzle that has become Government policy in the area of justice. I have to highlight the failures in corrections because they have become an international embarrassment for New Zealand. We have the worst offender ever in New Zealand history a man charged with the death of 51 people; we have the Prime Minister lecturing the world on how we need to use modern technology to shut down the spread of hate we have the man writing letters around the world trying to infect and expand the terrorism and we are yet to have explanations from the Government as to how that occurred. We even have Government members of the Justice Committee preventing an inquiry into how that letter occurred.Todd Muller: Really? Hon Dr NICK SMITH: And they call themselves—I say to my colleague—the most open transparent Government ever and they're blocking the Justice Committee from getting to the bottom of that basic failure. Here's the one that really amuses me and I'd love to get an explanation from members opposite: Kelvin Davis campaigned for six long years on the evil of double-bunking in prisons. My colleagues will remember the campaign that he ran and now he's got a bill before Parliament that—you know what?—makes double-bunking easier. What a contradiction. What a double standard that has come in that area. Then I particularly want to challenge the Minister around the very serious issue of electoral law. He is the first Minister of Justice to ignore the convention that electoral law changes should be developed on a cross-party basis. In fact if you look at the last Government—a very good record and I pay compliments to former justice Ministers Simon Power and Amy Adams who went to great length. But it's worse than that: this Minister has been dishonest in the way in which he has promoted electoral changes. He puts a press release out saying that we're going to introduce same-day enrolment in voting but conveniently ignores telling the public that that means the vote count will be delayed by 10 days. It was sneaky it was wrong and the Minister owes this House an explanation. I also want to challenge the Government about its policy in respect of referendum because it is all about politics and nothing to do with principle. I'd love the Minister in the chair to say whether he agrees with the New Zealand First Party that you can't trust Parliament and only Cabinet can decide on the referendum. I point out to the committee that in the many referendum that we've had at election time—every single one of them—the wording has been determined by Parliament. It is outrageous what the Government is doing to manipulate the 2020 election. This is a desperate coalition that will stoop to whatever level is required to try and ensure their re-election. It is a disgraceful approach for a country that has such a proud democratic tradition. I challenge the Minister to actually raise the standards live up to the heritage of the brave people recognised on the walls of this Parliament and respect the democratic traditions of this country.