McKee NicoleNICOLE McKEE (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. Over the last three weeks my colleague Mark Cameron and ACT candidate Andrew Hoggard and I have travelled around New Zealand—the width and breadth—in our heartland tour speaking to ACT's great policy ideas on tackling the issues that are in the faces of Kiwis every single day.There's a number of problems that our communities face. Not only are Kiwis struggling to put food on their tables and keep the heaters going but they're also struggling to understand why the Labour Government is so hell-bent on the divide between Māori and non-Māori within our society.What really stood out in every single town though was their concern at the lack of law and order lack of consequences being faced cultural reports resulting in discounts and in fact alarm when I mentioned to them that cultural reports are now costing not $3000 per month but $630000 taxpayer dollars per month. Communities speak of our youth running amok and of gangs left unchecked unapprehended to do as they please. Our communities are sick of it and we've heard them loud and clear.Just look at the statistics on crime under Labour: a 500 percent increase in ram raids a 121 percent increase in serious assaults resulting in injury a 20 percent increase in knife crimes over the last two years a 42 percent increase in serious crime victimisations and a 300 percent increase in assaults on police. Our retail workers are being beaten on by people who are 30 percent more likely to have done it before. There have been 18769 aggravated robberies under Labour up to April 2023 but only 8162 proceedings brought. There's a 700 percent increase in youths on the National Gangs List who have committed on average 26 offences each before they reached the age of 18. Between December 2022 and May 2023 gang members on the National Gangs List committed 2.8 firearm offences every single day and the gangs will have no intention of registering their firearms.I don't think this is about being hard or being soft on crime; it's about recognising the failure of this Government's ability to deal with crime and criminals and rejecting their social experiment on our communities. It's failed and it's failed badly—not only our communities but our country as a whole.Recently a 17-year-old convicted for the murder he committed while being a prospect for a gang received his gang patch while on bail and got a 70 percent discount on sentencing from his cultural report—12 months' home detention for murder.Last week another criminal yelled out Cracked it" to the court as he was escorted away to serve home detention for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman in her own bed while her child was beside her.Labour has removed consequence to criminal actions; ACT will reintroduce it. Labour has focused on reducing the prison population but hasn't focused on reducing crime. ACT will immediately start work on both policies. Labour wants to focus on reducing prison numbers and reducing Māori in prison yet under Labour the Māori prison population has increased. ACT will focus on correcting behaviours while offering opportunities.Our communities are living in fear. Our communities want change and they need real change and ACT is here to deliver it from this October. ACT will bring back three strikes for serious violent offenders and at the same time will introduce three strikes for burglary. ACT will build more prison beds and abolish the prison reduction targets. ACT will place our youth justice facilities under corrections and build more youth justice beds. ACT will introduce infringement notices for shoplifting resulting in instant practical punishments like community service so that our youth experience consequence. ACT will introduce electronic monitoring for our serious youth offenders ensure harsher penalties for crime in the workplace and make 17-year-olds fit within the adult justice system.New Zealand needs real change now and Kiwis can make that happen this October by giving their party vote to ACT.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."