Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Sorry I was so interested that I didn't realise the member's time was up either. It's a huge honour to take a call today on the 125th anniversary of New Zealand becoming the first self-governing nation in the world where women could vote. I too would like to add my voice of acknowledgment to Meri Te Tai Mangakahia being the first woman ever to speak in the Parliament and providing some guidance for the suffrage movement in that achievement and of course the woman out in front of the Pākehā activists Kate Sheppard. In 1893 the vote was extended to all women who were British subjects aged 21 and over including Māori—we'll put aside the politics of that which are awfully uncomfortable. It took us longer to move past this foreign nationhood test and it wasn't until 1952 that Chinese-born New Zealand men or women actually got the right to vote in this country. So it wasn't completely universal but it was certainly the first time that women had the right to vote in a self-governing nation. I do also want to recognise that New Zealand's voting and political systems aren't designed for everyone. Disabled people experience barriers to exercising their right to vote and to participate politically such as inaccessible information and voting papers limited voting methods and a lack of physical facilities enabling engagement with politicians so they haven't actually in practical terms had suffrage always. So it's been particularly great to see Chlöe Swarbrick shepherding through Mojo Mathers' electoral access bill in Parliament and I look forward to this House—I hope—unanimously supporting that bill to move us a step forward in terms of the political participation of people with disabilities. I am very grateful to the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians and the artist from the East Coast for the beautiful camellia that I get to wear in this House. My number is 112 which just completely blew my mind if I'm honest. To think that in this day and age having been in this House for seven years I'm still only 112th of all women is mind-bending. If I go back over that time I'm the fourth out lesbian to be in this House and many of us are still firsts or seconds. Golriz Ghahraman sitting right beside me is the first New Zealander with a refugee background and Mojo Mathers was the first Deaf New Zealander in this House. There are still barriers to be broken through for people to be able to participate in this place and it's made me reconsider how I value this position to reflect on that. I'm a person who typically for a long part of my life looked at politicians and thought they were all full of—and I'd really not been particularly engaged or enthusiastic about the parliamentary political process if I'm honest. It seemed a lot about fighting rather than care for the community. It took for me working on the paid parental leave campaign from the community and working in partnership with a member of Parliament who liaised with us—and she managed the politics in this House. I saw that actually there was a hope that politicians could be linked to communities and could be about bettering the lives of New Zealanders and for me ultimately that is what it is about—to be in this place. So while we celebrate the remarkable achievement of suffragists today I do also want to mention Kate Sheppard's famous quote that All that separates whether of race creed class or sex is inhuman and must be overcome." I would like to extend that today to disability gender and gender identity nation or country of birth and all of the other arbitrary measures that feed discrimination but that could bring us together as a much stronger country. Kia ora."