Shaw JamesHon JAMES SHAW (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. Can I also congratulate the MP Rima Nakhle for bringing this to the House. Having picked up the bill from others it's clear that she is no less passionate about this topic and will be a good steward for it as it makes its way through the House.It does appear to be a very narrow bill on the face of it and it aligns at first blush with a survivor-centred approach to justice. The scope includes but is not limited to people who have a protection order against someone. And a protection order of course is used to seek protection from family violence. So in this speech I will be focusing on the victim/survivors of family violence.A survivor-centred approach to justice avoids re-traumatisation and it systematically focuses on their safety their rights wellbeing their expressed needs and their choices. Ensuring that victim/survivors of family violence are protected from unwanted contact can be seen certainly to align with that approach. So we do welcome the opportunity to hear directly from survivors advocates and from front-line experts as to how we can make sure that this bill truly provides protection from re-traumatisation and a role in affirming survivor dignity.We do want to test at the select committee the extent to which the protection against unwanted contact is actually already in legislation and how this bill can add substantially to that. We also want to test whether or not we are including family violence victim/survivors who may not have a protection order. This is important because of course protection orders aren't easily accessible to everyone so we want to make sure that there isn't a discrepancy there.We do need to be very clear that a survivor-centred approach to justice is not the same thing as a tough on crime approach—which is the flavour of the month at the moment—because when it comes to family violence it ends up being the justice system itself that can cause as much harm as the actual family violence. Sadly we can highlight generations of family violence victims saying that they wished that they had never reported family violence because they felt even more violated by the system's response to it than by the family violence itself—which is an extraordinary indictment on the justice system.So while we do welcome this change as having positive potential—as long as it's done right—we know that so much more needs to be done in order to truly transform our system away from just an adversary approach and towards actual restorative justice and authentic accountability and enduring justice.So on that note the Greens hope that the Government continues to prioritise Te Aorerekura and the essential system-change shifts that are highlighted in that strategy. This is a focus on primary prevention over the course of 25 years and we really do want to invite this Government to truly engage with victim/survivors' lived experience—backed up by years and years of research—and what the real solutions are to preventing crime and violence. It is all—hopefully; I have a copy with me here—there for all the MPs in this House to take a look at and to learn from. [Holds up a copy of Te Aorerekura: National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence]In summary the Green Party does support this bill and we do look forward to public submissions to make sure that it can truly protect survivors and victims of violence of crime from unwanted contact. And there are some things that we do want to test in select committee as well to make sure that this is adding real value. But we also know at the same time that the real transformational work to prevent violence and crime requires a new collective approach from all of us working together and taking on a new strength-based whānau-focused and whānau-led lens to our work. We recognise that the scope of a member's bill is not to transform the entire justice system so you know we do support it within that context but it has to be within that context as well. So as I said we will be supporting this bill and we look forward to working with the member to advance it through the House.