Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Salaam alaikum. One of my favourite songs is Corduroy" by Pearl Jam particularly the line: "Everything has changed. Absolutely nothing's changed." Those aren't the actual lyrics by the way but they're the lyrics for me. I've been listening to that song a lot since Friday. Everything has changed in New Zealand yet absolutely nothing's changed. Hatred in a form we have never known came to our shores—50 people were massacred in the most horrible way imaginable—yet our police showed enormous courage under fire and pressure. Absolutely nothing has changed.On Friday evening I went up to the mosque in Taita in Lower Hutt. I probably shouldn't have but it felt like the right thing to do. There were already at 6.10 p.m. two bunches of flowers there; I laid the third. And there were two police cars with fully armed police. Everything has changed.On Saturday morning I went to the Riverbank Market in Lower Hutt and my friend Khalid was there selling flowers.He came to New Zealand in 2016 as a refugee from Syria and he's transformed his Housing New Zealand house in Epuni into a market garden. That's what he used to do in Syria. He's been selling flowers and I've come to know him. And we hugged. What do you say? What do you say? I didn't know. He said to me "New Zealand was meant to be safe." And what do you say in response to that? Opposite him—opposite his little stall—was a Christian group promoting the Bible. People were milling about listening to music buying groceries buying coffee. It was a very Lower Hutt very New Zealand scene. That's the New Zealand I love and the New Zealand we are. In that sense absolutely nothing's changed.On Saturday afternoon I visited the mosque. Again it just felt like the right thing to do and the gentleman outside said to me "Hey brother"—hey brother. In recent days I've been reflecting on that moment as we now know about the poignancy of those words. He gave me a date and we shared a date together. As we were talking and I was expressing my condolences the King Cobras turned up in a big van. They bounced out of the van with a big bunch of flowers and handed them over to some representatives from the mosque and then a gentleman from the King Cobras came out with six big bags of food from Countdown and he said "Do you guys eat beef? We just want to make sure we've got the right meat. So here's some food." As I left they were filming—the King Cobras and the gentleman from the mosque—a Facebook video together about how we all live under one God and how they wanted to help. So New Zealand and so absolutely nothing's changed.But then on Sunday Jenna and I lined up like thousands of other Wellingtonians at the Basin Reserve and there were armed police in the streets at the Basin Reserve. On the Basin Reserve banks where I have spent so many happy summers there were armed police with weapons. Everything has changed.Our gun laws will change. My message to those with firearms as National's police spokesperson is that things must change. Something is wrong when someone can have access to so much lethality and so much power and commit such crimes. As a Parliament we must ensure that that can never happen again.Everything has changed in New Zealand since Friday but in the same way absolutely nothing has changed. We must continue to ensure New Zealand stands steadfast against terror stands for tolerance stands for civility and stands for a multicultural New Zealand where all are respected. Thank you."