Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. Al salam alaikum. The release of this report brings us back to that day on March 15th last year when our nation's heart was broken. I think of the families of the 51 shuhada and the witnesses the paramedics and the community in Christchurch who will have the turmoil and the pain returned to them today and I want to specifically thank them for their courage in engaging so fulsomely with the creation of this report. What I remember of that day almost immediately after the first reports of the terror attack happened was the outpouring of messages that I received from the refugee and migrants of colour communities who were fearful and wanted to reach out to an MP and share our experiences of hate crimes and hate speech—the fear that they felt. They shared the number of times that they'd reported the more minor attacks leading up to this to this act of terror inconceivable in its scale but they did say We saw something coming." I want to acknowledge that it was Māori who raised the voices of our Muslim community in the days following the terror attack in saying that a hate crime mass-murder prejudice has existed in this nation before because it was Māori that had experienced it. They warned that losing the lessons of prejudice will only mean that our nation remains in a state where marginalisation happens and none of us are safe. So this report is the beginning and the other memory—the most distinctive memory that everyone in this House has actually acknowledged as well—is that there was also an incredible outpouring of love across our whole nation as we wrapped our arms around our Muslim community. I will never forget that the city of Dunedin ran out of flowers on 16 March because they were all at the mosque. Those beautiful people that incredible love is what will hold us to account as a Government as a Parliament as we heed those warnings and we take decisive action to implement every recommendation of this report and I'm so heartened to hear our Prime Minister say today that we will do just that. We will update our hate speech laws to be inclusive and effective as the Green Party has campaigned on for over two years. We will acknowledge that our national security agency—the agency that was entrusted with keeping us all safe—disproportionately and wrongly without evidence was targeting our Muslim community without looking into far-right white supremacist terror. I know that the report didn't identify that failure as directly leading to this act of terror but we will never know what could have been had that agency ascribed resource to looking into white supremacy and our marginalised communities will never feel safe while that system is not fixed. We know that our police failed in applying our gun laws and that did directly contribute to this act of terror happening. We know that the report recommends better systems be put in place and we know that the report writers were not mandated to look at gun law reform but I am proud that our Government did act decisively in banning military-style semi-automatics—which never had a place in our society—that we did work to make it more difficult to obtain firearms and that New Zealand is not a nation like others are that looks on while mass violence happens and won't change our gun laws for pressure from a gun lobby. Now is the time to centre the voices of the victim communities. Now is the time to listen to them as they react to the recommendations and as they call for different types of reparations for mental health for ongoing support of young people who have lost parents. Their thoughts and their ideas about how we can make New Zealand more safe and inclusive will have to be centred in order for us to uphold the promise of all of that aroha from across our nation so that we can weave it into an enduring fabric of our society. Thank you Mr Speaker."