Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's with a bit of a heavy heart that I rise in this House again to talk about the issue of violence against women and children in our country but this is a conversation we are having as a country at the moment and I believe it's an important conversation to keep having in this House. One in three women in this country are likely to experience violence from the person that is supposed to love them. We know there were 121000 family violence call-outs in the last year to the police and that's one every four minutes; that between 2009 and 2015 92 women and 56 children were murdered in this country; and that those involving partners—for 98 percent of those women there was a recorded history of abuse by a male partner. We knew that they were being hurt and we failed them. In the deaths of children where a man was convicted in 77 percent of those cases there was also a history of that man abusing his female partner. We didn't intervene and we failed those children.Every single person in this country has a born right to live free from fear and violence but we have to face up to the fact that that is just not a reality for too many of our women and children in this country—and some men as well but it is mostly our women and children. We have to do better by them and it's going to take all of us in this House and in our communities to make that difference. Every year there's a campaign of 16 days of action to end violence against women between November and December and this year in this country that in some ways is a village two women were murdered just during those 16 days. We don't know how many other women died without being directly murdered.I am proud to be in this Government to have the position in this Government to focus our efforts on ending this violence for restoring our faith in each other and our ability to do something about this. I am proud that within our first year in Government this Government has created that position and has increased funding for front-line services by 30 percent to ensure through New Zealand First and Labour's coalition agreement to make sure that those services are able to respond. We've passed three pieces of legislation: a world-leading domestic violence victims' protection bill and workplace protections that other countries are now coming to us asking us for advice on how they might do it; protection against forced marriage of children that was initiated by the National Party and supported unanimously by this House; and a transformational change to our family violence legislation involving new offences that have already come into force including strangulation which already from 3 December we've had 26 charges on that one offence. We are making a difference—Tamati Coffey: Wow—26?JAN LOGIE: Twenty-six already—this is happening and this is us responding and engaging. We have set up a Family Court rewrite to actually make sure that that system is working to protect and ensure the support and the safety of our women and children. And we've set up a whole-of-Government response a new way of working in Government that for the first time ever will have the Government held accountable by the Opposition for our actions on family and sexual violence which has never happened. We are committed to turning this around and look forward to the help of other New Zealanders.