Kapa-Kingi MariamenoMARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI (Te Pāti Māori—Te Tai Tokerau): Tēnā koe e te Pīka; tēnā tātou. So this kaupapa is one of a heavy nature and I wish to recognise the nature of this bill to begin with. I recognise this to begin with because it is the whakapapa. It is the context behind the original development of this bill that I will discuss now.We have become so far removed from the whakapapa of this bill and from why this law was first established that I stand here to remind us all of the foundation of our debate this evening. Next week on March 15th it will be the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks that targeted our Muslim community and claimed the lives of 51 innocent people. To those whānau and to that community I acknowledge that this is a loss that likely remains unhealed. This attack was endured at the hands of an ideology known as white supremacy. This is an ideology that we dance around that we do not mention within the walls of this House and yet it is in this bill embedded into its very foundation. I'll repeat the words white supremacy". It was Labour who originally introduced laws in response to the attacks in Christchurch as a means to justify the implementation of Operation Tauwhiro and Operation Cobalt. These operations targeted criminals criminal gangs and organised crime groups. This was their response to the attack: to target and focus on groups who were ultimately not responsible for the events of March 15th and to those who do not hold the same ideology: white supremacy.So this is how a colonial Government responds when a white supremacist terrorist is inspired by a world view that they have enabled to redirect their focus on to—guess what?—gangs of which Māori make up the majority. They will distract us from how we got here as they do today but we shall never forget March 15th. So this brings us here today to say where the coalition Government builds and develops on from the foundation of white supremacy. Because of the actions inspired by white supremacy the Government with this law targets gang members aka Māori and their associates ultimately targeting Māori which no doubt will lead to the increased incarceration of our people continuing the cycle of trauma in our communities.While the component of the bill I discuss now will certainly be discussed in greater detail in the days to come I want to address the amendment of the Search and Surveillance Act. This Act will give police the power to conduct warrantless searches without cause. One of my whanaunga recently got arrested; I think it was called a "searching while brown" situation. It will give the police the power to arrest—and on a person that police suspect is subject to a firearms prohibition order. So what this means is that police will be able to invade our homes—our homes—and conduct searches without reasonable grounds to suspect that any offence has been is being or will be committed. Imagine how that's going to turn out.The message this sends to our people again is this: we do not matter. Our safety our security and our place in Aotearoa as tangata whenua is of no value to this Government. It sends the message to our tamariki to our mokopuna that we Māori will continue to have our oppressors searching our homes—what a great life! Searching our Māori identities for something they cannot find within themselves. I leave it to the members of this House to consider what that something is and I completely reject the position of this bill and absolutely cannot commend it. Tēnā koe."