Henderson Emily; Mitchell MarkDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): I rise as a member of the Justice Committee to commend this bill to the House and in the hope that I as a member of the Justice Committee will get the opportunity to work on and investigate what is a really important bill. This bill is only a piece of the puzzle. As my colleague has just said—44 recommendations. This Government has wholeheartedly and openheartedly accepted our responsibility to action those in principle. This is our start. This is our first pou in the ground. I was a mum of an eight-month-old baby when the Twin Towers went down and when the world rocked to that terrorism. I remember sitting in front of the television with my eight-month-old on my knee and thinking that the world was ending. We came home a couple of years later to New Zealand. We came home having watched the continuation of a pattern of organised large-scale terrorism across the world including the return of terrorism to London. It was a relief to get here. I remember my disbelief therefore on that sunny Friday afternoon on 15 March driving home through Maunu in Whangārei switching on the radio and hearing while my children were in the back of the car there had been this appalling shooting of numerous people in a mosque while they sat and prayed. I thought this must be a family violence murder. My only explanation was this must be one of those appalling femicides of which we have far too many in this country—even one would be too many but we have appalling rates. I thought this was some estranged man taking out his rage on his ex-partner and his children and their community. I could not conceive that what we had faced what the world was facing had finally come home to little New Zealand. But so it was. And it is I think indicative of what we so often—and Mr Mitchell across the House said we lost our innocence that day. But listening to my colleague Mr Omer I am reminded that others had had their innocence stripped earlier. And those of us who were able to stand in our white privilege had been comforted and supported and we had not noticed perhaps sufficiently what was going on in the world: that it is not just large organisations it is the lone wolf—although I'm not sure why we say the lone wolf"; the lone rat. This bill takes the formulation of terrorism as we understood it following 9/11 when it was aimed at those large organisations and it looks to that lone rat offender. I particularly want to pick out one example because I think there has been some concern at times expressed that there is no need for some of this legislation and particularly the new offence of preparation. So I just want to take us to section 72 of the Crimes Act because it is necessary that we have clause 9 inserting new section 6B which is the new offence of preparing to commit a terrorist offence. That is not covered by the Crimes Act section 72. The Crimes Act section 72 covers attempts—and attempts are a very very limited class of activity. They are immediate and proximate to the act or the actual offence. And they are explicitly not only in preparation for the commission of the offence and too remote to constitute an attempt. This bill is necessary. I commend it to the House. I hope it will become an Act. I look forward to the process of select committee investigation. Sadly I regret that it is necessary but I look forward to us creating a society that is more aware of our lone problems and that brings us together in a more cohesive tolerant society that I believe New Zealanders want and deserve. Thank you Madam Speaker.Hon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Point of order Madam Speaker. Thank you Madam Speaker. I hope you'll give me some latitude. I didn't want to interrupt the speaker's speech but I just wanted to address one issue that she raised. I may have taken it out of context I'm not sure but she referred—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! This is not strictly a point of order unless the member can—Hon MARK MITCHELL: Well it's a point of order in the sense I'm just trying to put some context around it Madam Speaker. The speaker referred to—I felt that she was reflecting back that I'd spoken about white privilege and—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): I'm sorry the member will resume his seat. That is not a point of order. Thank you. That is a debateable motion. Thank you."