Henderson Emily; Rurawhe AdrianDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): Mr Speaker it's such a pleasure to stand and support this bill and to congratulate my colleague Ginny Andersen on bringing an elegant simple and perfectly formed bill before the House—one that actually addresses something quite significant. You know our teens—and I'm the mum of four and auntie to a further 14 kids between the ages of two and 21 and the entire range of 19 grandchildren—they are so skilled. They outpace us so fast when it comes to digital technology. Who would have realised that such a range of lovely images of healthful fruit and vegetables apparently are not innocent in their expression. Who would have realised that Netflix and that Minecraft with its zombies and killing of chickens is out there. It masquerades as such a simple thing. Our children tell us that no no they're definitely not using the kill" function on Minecraft but they are because children are children—I'm just warning Mr Eagle here. I'm warning them because kids are the way they always have been: they outpace us on the technology they wrap us round their little fingers and they run in circles around our aged legs.This bill addresses a really important aspect of that because while they are so darn clever they are also just as naive and helpless and trusting as we were when we were kids. The romanticism and the hope in a young person that they've met that special someone online or that they've struck up a deep and meaningful friendship or even just a nice chat with a nice person of their own age—they are so vulnerable. For all that they are clever and slick with the killing of the chickens and the goat murdering that goes on in that terrible Minecraft server they are also still the naive young kids that we were when we were their age and they need that protection that this bill will give them.Grooming is no joke. As a prosecutor and as a lawyer in the old days before I got this job a year ago the reality of grooming of children for abuse is something that I had to deal with on a reasonably regular basis and it is very very hard to recognise for the child concerned because it hits all those bases. It seems like friendship it seems like affection and it crosses those boundaries so carefully and it is so blooming effective. Once it sets in once the kid realises what's really going on the shame and the pain that it brings to them is so difficult to treat. This is just another medium whereby the unfortunate predators that we do have in our society can target our kids—kids who unfortunately are smarter than their parents when it comes to the Minecraft and all those other things—there's something called Reddit I understand as well. They are smarter than us they are better at these things than us but we cannot as adults forget that inside they're still the little wee people that we actually do understand as much as we do not understand the internet.So I am delighted to see this bill. One of the interesting things that's been quoted by some of our colleagues tonight is the studies that point to the incidence of targeting of our young people. It is really useful to have that data and to have that hard empirical evidence of the importance of this bill. That seven in 10 young teens are getting unwanted advances over the internet is something that should really worry us all. In the course of working on the harmful digital communications legislation which can be seen as a kind of sister bill to this in some ways we also heard about the prevalence of revenge porn when these things go wrong. Our kids are so vulnerable. I am so delighted that my colleague Ginny Andersen has seen fit to bring this bill forward because it is going to put a really important tool in our hands.So in my final words on this matter—to my children I know you're watching I know you're using Minecraft on the killer mode. I am wise to you. Occasionally mother really does know best and Auntie Ginny on this occasion has really got it nailed. I commend this bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Ginny Andersen in reply."