SpeechANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. It's always an honour and a privilege to make a contribution in the House particularly today on this bill the Crimes (Child Exploitation Offences) Amendment Bill. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the member who initially brought this bill to the House the—now—Hon Ginny Andersen. I want to acknowledge Ginny and the work that she's done but at the same time I'd like to acknowledge Angie Warren-Clark in whose name the bill now is. She is shepherding this bill to its now final reading and I am the last person to make a contribution on the bill.I will take time to read out what is says about grooming for sexual conduct with a young person. I want to remind you Mr Speaker in case you think I'm reading my speech that I'm going to read what's in the bill so that everybody understands what it means. I acknowledge everyone who has contributed on this bill. One of the things that is really scary in the contributions is we talk about digital harm and the popularity of the internet and digital harm to children in their bedrooms with little or no adult supervision at all. In terms of that challenge the challenge is for all the caregivers parents and all us adults to get to know how to keep our children safe in terms of using the internet.I will now go to some of the evidence that was provided as to the reasons why this bill is needed and why we need to make this into law. As I've said before the popularity of the internet increases harm to children especially when they are experiencing it now. A survey conducted by NetSafe and the Ministry for Women found that seven in 10 teens surveyed have experienced at least one type of unwanted digital communication in the past. The words that we need to take note of there are unwanted digital communication". It also found that nearly 19 percent of teens surveyed experienced an unwanted digital communication that had a negative impact on their daily activities and the most common of these involved being contacted by a stranger. Nineteen percent of young people surveyed have also been asked to share things like nude or nearly nude images of themselves. This bill makes it a crime to do that.I want to read section 131AB "Grooming for sexual conduct with young person" which is inserted by clause 4. I believe that it's important that it is noted in the House and those who are listening will understand what that actually means. So section 131AB(1) talks about "A person aged 18 years or over is liable for imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years if". So that's states that that's an adult—over 18 years. It then goes on to say "(a) they communicate by words or conduct with a person under the age of 16 years". So that is defining what a young person is. And paragraph (b) states "they do so intending to facilitate the young person engaging or being involved in conduct that would be an offence against this Part or against any of paragraphs" and they are stated. It also states in subsection (2) "It is immaterial whether or not a response is made to the communication by the young person."I have read that because I believe it is important that people understand what an adult is—a person over the age of 18 years and a young person which is a person under the age of 16 years. And I spoke about the new offences because it's important that we know that. The bill as tabled in the House and in the select committee had proposed amendments. It increased the penalty from a maximum of seven years' imprisonment to 10. However that proposed penalty does not align with similar existing offences in the Crimes Act and the Harmful Digital Communications Act. So the select committee considered that in terms of the new section I have read out.Today we are going to hear a former Prime Minister of New Zealand—the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern—make her valedictory speech. I want to quote the former Prime Minister because this is important in terms of digital harm protecting young people online. The former Prime Minister said in many of her speeches particularly the one at the United Nations in New York that "We want to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child." The reason I say that is because the Labour Party supports this bill and it is one of the many things that contribute to keeping our and young people safe online. I would like to take this opportunity to again summarise some of the changes and why we support this. As I've said before I think if I look around the House we ourselves don't know many of the friends and pages that we like on Facebook. We don't know what's behind that page. And the challenge that I mentioned in my opening remarks is that it is important that we as adults we as caregivers as aunts as uncles of children and young people know how to keep our children safe online. When you go online there are many places that offer tool kits for parents as a guide to keeping children safe online. But the one I particularly liked was FamilyTime. Previously in the House people had mentioned the question of reporting harm. I think there's a duty on caregivers and adults to actually know how to keep children safe online. And in order to do that we need a tool kit because we have to keep up with technology. So I ask those who are listening to go to familytime.co.nz. It is an online safety tool kit for parents. It is friendly. It has lots of pictures. I know that many of us do a lot of reading but that website is parent-friendly. We talk about child-friendly but that is parent-friendly because it has to keep your interest to go past the first page. It is parentfriendly and I urge everyone to go online to equip themselves so that we can all keep children safe. So in summary our online spaces are increasingly becoming a space an area where this harm can occur. As I've said before online surveys give us evidence that children are being harmed online. And I want to go back to acknowledging the Hon Ginny Andersen for her work in this area shepherding this bill up to the second reading where she became the Minister; and Angie Warren-Clark who chairs the Social Services and Community Committee—the bill is now in her name.As I've said before I acknowledge the former Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. As a Tongan living in Aotearoa the Pacific people refer to this former Prime Minister as "the daughter of Niue". And as I speak I'm being emotional because she has done us proud as a Prime Minister and it is an honour and a privilege for me to be in her leadership and I hope that everything else I do is a reflection in terms of the leadership of our former Prime Minister. This bill the Crimes (Child Exploitation Offences) Amendment Bill is an important bill and I commend it to the House. Mālō 'aupito.Motion agreed to.Bill read a third time."