Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): This is a split call.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Split call—thank you. Five minutes.JAN LOGIE: I want to start with some recent quotes from sexual violence victims and their whānau describing our current court processes and why I will be so pleased to see this bill passed today: Consent was never an issue because I was a child. But she asked 'Why did you never stamp your foot or make some noise?' Or you know 'You could have stopped it.'" "I completely broke down and I had to be carried out of court. It preys on all your deepest insecurities." And from a parent "With my daughter they were suggesting things to her saying she hadn't even been there. It seemed like the case came down to being able to successfully confuse the children enough to get a paedophile off a charge. That part was absolutely traumatising for all of us. How can a justice system be just if this is the way it treats children? It becomes not about justice. It becomes a game." So today for all those hundreds of thousands of survivors of sexual violence and their whānau who have wondered if they will ever be believed who have struggled with the violence of the system's response to their truth-telling who have despaired at the lack of Government action who have felt judged and dirtied and betrayed by our collective response I hope this bill passing today tells you that you have finally been heard in this place. It's my great honour to be a Green Party voice in support of this third reading. This bill has been at least 15 years in the making. From the public outrage in response to the treatment of Louise Nicholas and then we had in 2007 the two-year Taskforce for Action on Sexual Violence an in-depth academic review of the problems and solutions many more discrete academic papers surveys of court participants sexual violence survivors a petition of over 100000 New Zealanders attrition data two Law Commission reports even a trial of some of the controversial aspects of this bill in our specialist courts two positive New Zealand Bill of Rights Act vets a select committee inquiry a Chief Victims Advisor's report decades of overseas experience—all supporting the changes in this bill. I have honestly never seen such a strong evidence base for a piece of legislation. All of these reports told us we are actively now re-traumatising victims in the court process and that the processes that are being used do not encourage good evidence and cases are not being tested on the law and that we can do better without undermining anybody's right to a fair trial. There have been so many opportunities since 2007 for this law change but none of that evidence or the voices of survivors were enough to convince a Government to do anything but tinker deny or delay. So today is big and I want to thank the hundreds of advocates and survivors who have persisted all these years. This bill enables complainants to say how they would like to give evidence. It requires complainants' and propensity witnesses' evidence to be recorded so it can be used if there's a mistrial requires the sexual history of the defendant to meet the same threshold as the sexual history of other people. The threshold is relevance and it requires judges to intervene if they believe questioning is inappropriate misleading or needlessly repetitive. It supports judicial directions on rape myths and allows victim impact statements to be given in alternative ways and to clear the court. Nothing in this bill is world leading but I think we can take the resistance to it as a truth of its significance. This bill is not the end of the journey but I truly hope it is the end of the denial and an embedding of the transformation to a rigorous and safe justice system that tests the evidence and not the person. I commend this bill to the House."