Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora Madam Speaker. I stand here this afternoon actually wearing my inclusive rainbow pin on my suit. This represents not only our pride community but as we become far more inclusive as a community this pin also ensures that that pride is a broad broad church—there is the transgender community there are people of colour who are queer there's our intersex community and the list goes on. As I read this legislation and looked at what it does and who it aims to protect I could only look at it from an inclusive rainbow lens. I am someone who comes from this community. I know thankfully not for myself and my age in life—I didn't have the challenges that exist today when it comes to this online existence and this online world. I don't want to go into too much detail but I'm grateful to Ginny Andersen for bringing this to the House and taking it through. I'm grateful for all members of Parliament and all parties for supporting this this afternoon as it's being ushered through the House.It's so important because for me and my experience and as a member of the rainbow whānau so often—so often—things have been done in secret and we've heard stories of that this afternoon of people who have had secret accounts or a 12-year-old girl that's got herself into a situation. But within our rainbow whānau I know that the secrets are often because you might feel shame. You might be afraid. You might wonder if you're going to be rejected or cast out of your own whānau and your friend groups. So often living in the shadows has been something that my community has experienced and has lived in. So as I look at this legislation and think of young people of teenagers of children in our rainbow communities around Aotearoa I think not only is there the challenge of them discovering themselves becoming affirming in who they are and who loves them and who they can love I also think they have this added extra thrown on top of it when it comes to this online world. I do often wonder if in a decade's time we're going to look back and think What the heck was that experiment we were playing in terms of social media and this online world?" There is an ability to be so connected and yet the World Health Organization talks about the epidemic by the year 2030 of loneliness around the globe that gets greater and greater the disconnection even though we're so connected. The Crimes (Child Exploitation Offences) Amendment Bill goes some way to protecting our young people to protect our children. It's about protecting their wellbeing. It's around protecting their innocence. It's around protecting their childhood. I know that all generations have had their crosses to bear and their experiences to get through but I think it seems so much more heightened in the 21st century when in your pocket is a device that gives you access to the world in your pocket is a device that means you can connect with people not only in your own street or in your own school but on the other side of the world. But it doesn't protect you. This device doesn't protect you from online predators from people grooming from people who create fake profiles. So I look forward to us moving quickly through so we can pass this into law so we can make sure that the predators out there those out there grooming don't maintain power and don't maintain the secrecy that the online world often brings. For the rainbow whānau for my community I support this legislation because I know it's one part of the shadows that we've often had to hide in that we need not hide in any more. I commend this bill to the House."