Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Talofa lava Madam Speaker and assalamo alaikum to our Muslim whānau particularly those down there in Christchurch. This bill does one simple thing: it amends the Intelligence and Security Act of 2017 to bring forward the date of the review of the Act including the GCSB and the SIS from September 2022 to July 2021. That's a good thing and we support that. This has been done to ensure issues with the Act raised in the royal commission's report into the terrorist attack on our Muslim whānau in Christchurch are addressed promptly. The commission made numerous recommendations for amendments to the Act and we look forward to addressing all of those issues in due time. One of the things that I'm mindful of is the rising threat of white supremacy and I just want to acknowledge that there have been actual death threats in the last couple of weeks against actual MPs in this House as well. So the truncated time process to make sure that we address these in a prompt timely fashion is a good thing. And it's important for us to push that here as parliamentarians as well. I'm also hoping that we will have a wider conversation about those that enable white supremacy those who do not pull the trigger but create the ground in which those who are in different states of mind who are in vulnerable situations then react to that information. So I think it's really important to talk about the enablers of white supremacy. Racism is a weed and the enablers feed those weeds with a fertiliser which is a toxic mix of misinformation and ignorance. These enablers often hide behind arguments of free speech. Free speech is important and it's something that we must have in order to have freedom of expression to be our authentic selves in these times. But you can find an enabler I feel who hides behind freedom of speech by looking at who they are defending—looking at who they are defending. Are they defending the rights of freedom of speech of marginalised minorities? Are they defending the rights of freedom of speech of people from impoverished communities from brown communities? Or are they routinely defending the speech of the wealthy—the white wealthy? These are some of the questions that I continue to have. I think people will want to know what the spies have been doing. We definitely know on March 15 they were not looking at the right people that they weren't looking at the white terrorist supremist who killed our Muslim whānau in Christchurch. And so when we ask those questions it's all about—because all these spy agencies and the entire alphabet soup of their security apparatus of the State we have to look at how those resources have been allocated. Are they spying on Māori? Are they spying on Muslim whānau? Are they spying on peace and environmental and social justice activists? And if so why? And if those resources are being allocated in that way how much of that resource is being spent on white supremacy? My expectation is that they will pick it up in terms of focusing on white supremacy. But we need to know that. Last week Dr Aziz Choudry passed away. For those of you who remember the 1990s Dr Aziz Choudry was an activist and a social justice activist involved with bring up some of the issues around the APEC ministerial meeting that was happening in 1996. And he actually happened to catch SIS spies on his house. And so people like Aziz are at front of mind for me at the moment—social justice activists who have been routinely scrutinised by the State. He was an innovative researcher author and educator. He inspired countless colleagues and students to challenge societal norms to advocate social justice and learning advocacy. He was a passionate and political activist and my thoughts and condolences go out to him and his whānau at this time.I think as it was with Aziz in 1996 it was with our Tūhoe whānau in 2007 who were also under surveillance. The 2001 September 11 attack happened and because America declared a war on terrorism we promptly followed and enacted the Terrorism Suppression Act in 2002. Apparently the apparatus of the State didn't have anything to do so they started spying on Māori activists. So as it was with Aziz in 1996 and with our Tūhoe whānau in 2007 it was the same with our Muslim whānau in 2019 because the apparatus of the State was spying on Muslim whānau. I think it's really important that we do not compartmentalise these separate events but we need to look at them as a trend over time. Where are these priorities coming from? Where are these priorities coming from over this period of time from the time of the SIS going through Aziz Choudry's house to the time of when the apparatus of the State was watching Tūhoe activists to the time when they should have been watching white supremacists; instead they were spying on Muslim whānau.Is it because New Zealand is the smallest eye among the Five Eyes? If so we have to ask ourselves whether we want to continue being part of something that compromises our independence. Do we want to continue to be a satellite State that enables American imperialism or do we want to be an independent Aotearoa? These are the questions that I have and I hope you have those questions too. I commend this bill to the House.