Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. If I may ask a question to members in the House and to those who may be listening along at home today it's a question about whether any of us in here have ever had a drink when we haven't necessarily felt like we really wanted to if we've ever had more of a drink than we wanted to if we've ever drunk alcohol just for the sake of fitting in. It's Mental Health Awareness Week and five years ago I had the privilege of delivering my maiden speech in this place with my colleague Golriz Ghahraman. In that speech I said Too many of those we serve and represent are navigating insecure housing and insecure work. When you don't know your neighbours or your co-workers to any depth and you have a problem you're not inclined to talk about it. You internalise it and individualise it. It's your problem. It's therefore a problem with you. Without strong communities without mainstream recognition of the power of collective action we don't hear each other's voices and we don't put our finger on [the] systemic issues that … we need each [other to resolve]."Around two years after that speech the Government released its commissioned mental health and addiction inquiry He Ara Oranga. The central premise of that inquiry reflects all of the contemporary research about mental health and addiction. It shows us that much like our physical health all of us are born with the genetic makeup that we have inherited from our parents and our grandparents and our great-grandparents and so on. Basically we are born into this world with brains that may have inherited a greater or lesser potential for development of mental ill health like physical ill health. But fundamentally what that report found is that it is our environments the opportunities that we have access to our circumstances the communities that we live in the systems and structures and the rules and the regulations that we live within that either can enable or disable. The question for this House is whether we want to go about creating those enabling environments or continue to perpetuate those disabling environments. The good news in He Ara Oranga like actually the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group review Turuki! Turuki! is that our Parliament has some pretty clear recommendations about how we can go about making those enabling environments.Here I really want to drill down into some specific recommendations where they were very straight-up on what it is that we can do about drugs. All substances all drugs can cause harm. The question is whether we want to go about recognising the reality that those substances exist regardless of whether we want them to or not to create rules regulations environments circumstances situations systems and structures to reduce that harm. Criminal prohibition doesn't go about getting rid of those substances; it pushes them underground as was reflected in He Ara Oranga and what this report said is that the best thing that we could possibly do to go about reducing the harm that these substances create is to create sensible regulation grappling with the reality that these substances exist.They didn't limit these recommendations to illicit drugs or illicit substances; they also included the most harmful drug that we have in our society legal or illegal—that is of course alcohol. So the question then becomes: what can we do about it? Well there were two really clear recommendations when you drill down through both the mental health and addiction inquiry and the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group review as commissioned by the Labour Government in the last term one of which is to implement the recommendation of the former Health Promotion Agency to remove the special appeals processes so that communities can go about putting in place local alcohol policies that work for them putting people over profit.One of the other things that we can go about doing is to finally do something with the ministerial forum commissioned back in 2014 by the former National Government chaired by Sir Graham Lowe that said that we need to go about getting rid of the glamorisation and normalisation of alcohol from our sports in this country like we did with tobacco decades ago. Members in this House can do something with these recommendations and in fact they have an opportunity to do so with a bill that'll be in front of them in about a month's time. That bill of course is my alcohol harm minimisation bill. I want to this afternoon acknowledge Hāpai te Hauora Alcohol Healthwatch and dozens—dozens—of other organisations and public health experts who put their names on the line to support the petition that was tabled today and accepted by one Arena Williams. And I want to thank my Labour colleagues those who have indicated their support and encourage National to do the same."