Warren-Clark Angie; McKelvie IanANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Look it is a real pleasure to stand and speak to this bill in the name of my colleague and very dear friend Dr Deborah Russell. Dr Deborah Russell I have to say is one of the staunchest feminist women I know and I utterly adore the fact that she has this bill in her name. I just really want to congratulate you Dr Russell for this bill and appreciate the fact that if any bill should come before this House in your name it should be this. So congratulations.Look the Employment Relations (Extended Time for Personal Grievance for Sexual Harassment) Amendment Bill—long name but very clearly does some really useful things. What we know about sexual harassment—and we've heard from each and every speaker who's kind of given us a bit of a definition: sexual harassment under the Human Rights Act and I'm just going to abbreviate it is any unwelcome or offensive sexual behaviour that is repeated or is serious enough to have a harmful effect. I think we all sadly probably understand what sexual harassment is from either our own experiences or family or friends. So I don't think we need to go into that in any more depth.However what we do need to do as a society and in this House is to acknowledge the great harm that occurs with sexual harassment. We also have to acknowledge the shame that is attached to it and this is one of the reasons I am quite delighted that at the moment the bill is proposing that we go from a 90-day period to a 12-month period. I hope that that sort of time frame sits in a longer period because the shame that people feel in having been sexually harassed and the experiences they feel—they need to spend time to get the courage up generally to report. They may have had to leave their employment. They may have had to go into counselling or some kind of support to be able to take this step and to report. And that is because quite often in a gendered society in a patriarchal society we blame ourselves as women. And I just want to acknowledge that for those who are concerned about sexual harassment to take courage and to do what needs to be done.I want to come very quickly to the overall beliefs and values that my colleague Jan Logie spoke about and I want to just acknowledge the work of Te Aorerekura which is the work around family and sexual violence the policies that we have. And in that the very first stage of this work is around changing societal views and values which is where I think this bill sits. It sits at the beginning of the process of change. And I also want to acknowledge what Jan Logie said in regards to—we did sexual harassment in the eighties and then we forgot about it and it's back.I'd also like to just acknowledge the fact that we here in this Parliament have had some quite consistent and serious matters raised in regards to sexual harassment. So I am holding up here Bullying and Harassment in the New Zealand Parliamentary Workplace which is a Debbie Francis report. We have done some significant work in this Parliament to make some changes and I think that this piece of legislation will add to our the safety. So I would just like to acknowledge the fact that the first thing that we have in this House for parliamentarians and for those in Parliament—the first thing that we say here is we show that bullying and harassment including sexual harassment are unacceptable. For me that is incredibly important because it shows us as leaders in this country but also to those who work here that this is unacceptable.So I would like to commend this bill absolutely and I would like to acknowledge my friend Deborah Russell for bringing this to the House and I thank you. I commend this bill.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I call—[pauses]Chris Baillie: Chris Baillie.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I was expecting to call your next door neighbour. Sorry Chris.