Tuiono Teanau; Rurawhe AdrianTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Here we are on the night shift.Nō reira e mihi ana ki a tātou katoa ki te Whare. Heoi me mihi au ki te whānau ki New Lynn ki a Tāmaki ki te uru. Kei reira te ngākau e rangona ana ngā kōrero. Kei reira te ngākau o te katoa o tēnei whare otirā ki ō tātou nei whānau Ihirama ki Ōtautahi. [Greetings to everyone in the House. I must acknowledge the families in New Lynn and in West Auckland. My heart is there hearing the stories. The hearts of everyone in this House are there as well as with our Muslim families in Christchurch.]I'm just reiterating the mihis and the greetings and the solidarity that this House has shown to the families in New Lynn who bore the brunt of the horrific attack just recently and I also remember our Muslim whānau who suffered a terrorist attack just a couple of years ago as well.I would also like to thank the Auckland MPs who are keeping us safe by staying at home and actually Golriz Ghahraman—I'm substituting in for her to speak on this bill. So it was when we were having the committee of the whole House I had a lot of questions to ask and a lot of questions to try to really get my head around in the short time I've been with this bill to understand the process of the select committee.I think it's really important for us to remember to centre Christchurch and to centre those lives that were impacted and to have a reminder of what the royal commission report said—that the counter-terrorism services disproportionately targeted Muslim communities rather than the threats by far-right terrorism faced by that community and it's important for us to hold on to that.I want to acknowledge all of the concerns of all the various parties that participated in the Justice Committee. I heard the intention. I heard the commitment and also we fully support a justice system that values social responsibility appropriate decision making and non-violent conflict resolution. These things need to be paramount but the thing is: timeliness needs to be important as well so that we get the balance right. So for us the balance has not been struck. We have generally three concerns and we talked through some of that in the committee of the whole House last night. Firstly the legislation although improved may still capture direct-action activists and protests. Secondly the new planning or preparation offence has been characterised by some experts as thought crime difficult to define in practice or defend against in a legal proceedings. And thirdly the terrorism control order is being expanded to people convicted in New Zealand when the whole premise of this regime was to be about the difficulty in gathering evidence to prosecute foreign fighters returning home. All of this can be sorted out but we need time in order to do that and also a reminder that we've got the SIS and the GCSB. We pass legislation so that they will show up earlier so that we could quiz them as to what went wrong in Christchurch. Why were they watching Muslim whānau when they should have been watching white supremacists? Why did they allocate their resources in such a way? These are really really important questions and we think that would have given us a wider view and a more deeper context to really consider this legislation.Yesterday the Minister did talk about the new legs" I think he called it within this legislation and those three legs within the legislation are legs of motivation intent and purpose. But I come from communities that want to know what those legs will do and whether it's three legs or four legs or eight legs or a whole octopus of legs what we want to know is whether those legs are actually going to stomp on us. One of the things that we haven't really discussed tonight is implicit bias which I think is the PC way of saying "institutional racism" which is rampant throughout the agencies. Every other week there is a headline that says that brown people are disproportionately impacted that there is racial prejudice within the agencies. Unless we get a fuller scope of actually what that looks like how can we then fully commit to making sure that we scrutinise bills correctly and promptly?This reminds me of a whakataukī which goes he kōkona whare e kitea he kōkona ngākau e kore e kitea—the corners of a house can be seen but not so the corners of the heart. He kōkona whare e kitea he kōkona ngākau e kore e kitea.The State has a long history of watching our communities watching activists who stand up for social justice and the environment and watching minorities. They watch us a lot and yet with all that surveillance I feel that they still do not really see us. I think about what happened in terms of 2007 with the raids that were directed against Tūhoe in terms of the lessons learnt by the agencies; they clearly didn't learn them. In 2019 we saw that because they were looking in the wrong direction. That was acknowledged by many submitters and as a reminder the 2002 Terrorism Suppression Act was passed in response to the US war on terror. So we imported what was happening overseas to what was happening here. Just as a reminder people in 2007 in that action against Tūhoe there were 300 police who raided houses all over Aotearoa New Zealand and arrested people on warrants issued under the Terrorism Suppression Act. Lives were turned upside down as the police searched for evidence of terrorism. The village of Ruātoki was locked down and houses were also raided in Wellington Auckland and Palmerston North. In court the evidence eventually crumbled. None of the 18 people who were eventually arrested faced charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act after the Solicitor-General ruled that the evidence was insufficient. Again that whakataukī "He kōkona whare e kitea he kōkona ngākau e kore e kitea."They raided houses in Auckland and Wellington they locked down Ruātoki and also in Palmerston North. I know that because my house was one of the houses that was raided in Palmerston North. When they come for us they come for us at dawn. Sometimes they knock on the door; sometimes they just barge on through. On that day I had actually just returned from Australia where Aboriginal communities had been organising against the northern intervention—the military intervention into their communities. I've got a longstanding relationship with a friend of mine who's from the Borroloola community and I've spent some time up in Garawa country. So as we were over there as Māori supporting Aboriginal communities against military intervention on their land it was happening in Ruātoki. So I came home and the very next day I got the knock on the door. I opened up the door the police were there—a lot of them—and they had what looked to me to be like a phone book's length of a search warrant. So what happened in that particular moment was—because I had my third child who was a couple of months old—that the first thing that came to my mind was "I think these people might actually give me a hiding in front of my kids." That's what I actually thought. So they went through all of my stuff and it turns out that law degree I got from Auckland University turned out to be really really useful. But in the aftermath of that it had a very chilling effect on my community. It had a very chilling effect right across Aotearoa New Zealand. One of the people that was also raided in Palmerston North she came to my house and said "Hey look my dad wants to talk to you." I'd never met these people before and one of the orderlies who worked at the hospital I knew him and I went up to talk to this man and the only reason why he was in hospital was because he had collapsed as they had arrested him. He had collapsed in the prison cell. So what I'm saying here is that these things need to take time and I don't think the time has been taken here. We need to walk with communities. We need to walk with those communities that will be impacted. As a reminder once again: there is racial prejudice within our police force and within our agencies. They disproportionately target communities like mine. They disproportionately target communities like our Muslim whānau. They disproportionately target environmentalists and social justice activists. We need to properly investigate and to really pull that apart before we give them more tools. Before we give them new opportunities new rules and new tools to use we have to make sure that they're using the ones that they've already got properly and we have not had that proper conversation. We need to have that conversation as well especially when the SIS and the GCSB show up so we can find out what they weren't doing and where they were spending all their time.Me mutu au i konei ki runga i tēnei o ngā whakataukī e rangona nei ngā taringa ki Te Urewera. "Ka warea te ware ka area te rangatira. Hongihongi te whewheia hongihongi te manehurangi kei āu te Rangatiratanga." Tēnā koe e te Pīka.[I must finish here with a proverb that hails from the Urewera. "Ignorance is the oppressor vigilance is the liberator. Know the enemy know the destiny determine our own destiny."]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Members the House is suspended and I will resume the Chair at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning for the extended sitting. Pō mārie. Sitting suspended from 9.56 p.m. to 9 a.m. (Thursday)"