Brewer CameronCAMERON BREWER (National—Upper Harbour): I rise in support of the Corrections (Victim Protection) Amendment Bill. I want to first pay tribute to its sponsor my good friend and colleague Rima Nakhle. Rima comes to this House with the perfect credentials to be the sponsor of this bill and the inheritor from the likes of Judith Collins and Louise Upston. Rima Nakhle and her husband Roger have been involved in transitional housing emergency housing initiatives over a number of years and the Nakhle family is synonymous with the building and creation of Manukau City over many decades. And so Rima brings a social licence as well as empathy as well as experience and as well as the credentials because she also of course studied law at Western Sydney University and so comes well equipped to see this bill through to select committee and hopefully on to greener pastures.As previous speakers have alluded to—but I will again for those that might have just tuned in to parliamentary TV with a valedictory speech coming up—this member's bill would create an obligation on the chief executive of Corrections and on prison managers to protect those who are subject to a protection order and victims of crime from contact from prisoners. And as Rima Nakhle the MP for Takanini told us the current Corrections Act refers to the protection of victims of family violence but this member's bill widens the net to all victims. And as has been alluded to there are processes in place there are managers that are overseeing it and doing the right thing. But as the previous speaker Ginny Andersen said this creates a legal obligation and that is what the law is all about—those legal obligations to close the net and to make sure victims are protected. And on this side of the House we certainly are a Government that's going to go out continually and back the victims of crime.This is common sense. It's a pragmatic yet simple law change that would provide relief and protection to victims of crime. Many New Zealanders would be surprised that such a legal safety net and requirement and compliance of those leaders within our corrections facility is not actually mandatory in a wider sense. And as others have alluded to there's been plenty of cases as Rima Nakhle said. She alluded to a more recent one but the National MP the Hon Louise Upston when she had the bill alluded to a number of terrifying cases as to why we should make this a stipulation on the statute book. We heard about a recent case a few years ago that was highlighted in the media that exposed the fact that a prisoner contacted his victim 93 times to get her to change her story. There's also been newspaper reports in recent years where a victim of a savage beating who should have felt safe in the knowledge that their assailant was behind bars was indeed contacted more than 100 times from jail calling upon the victim not to give evidence at the trial. And there was another case during seven weeks in custody: another 102 phone calls from prison to a victim in a desperate bid to prevent the victim from testifying against them.So these people are our most vulnerable. They need the most protection. Victim advocate Ruth Money has been all over this and says we need to close this loophole we need to get this on statute. Rima Nakhle has the social licence has the empathy has the experience and has the credentials to see this through. I commend the bill.