Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of the ACT Party in support of the Deputy Prime Minister's motion and thank you to him for that motion.We must protect and honour the victims and as I said in the House yesterday it is difficult for us—in fact impossible—to know the pain of those who have been lost and those who have lost. All we can do is commemorate and console and promise as this motion says to make sure that it will not happen again and that New Zealanders are safe.We can reflect on the fact that we are bound together by a common humanity. That common humanity says that each of us has inherent value—that each of us has inalienable rights and duties that are ours. Yesterday I pointed out that those basic rights and duties are written into this country's founding document and fleshed out in a much more detailed and deliberate way in our New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. Our founding document says that our treasures are sacred and should be safe. It also says that we all have equal rights. Our bill of rights promises among other things freedom to express ourselves freedom to move freedom to assemble and freedom to worship.Allow me to reflect on those rights and freedoms. Although some of them involve activities that we do as groups none of them are ascribed to groups. Each of them are ascribed to the individual because it is the individual New Zealander—each and every one of us—who has the power to think to express to assemble to move and to do all of the things that are protected as those rights. And we need to ensure that we defy this heinous act of terrorism by refusing to allow that freedom to be eroded.But we must also recognise that the ideology of the terrorist and those that he perceived to be his enemies are mirror images of each other. They are the idea that we should be able with enough hate to dehumanise an individual by ascribing to them the characteristics and values of a group above and beyond who they are. It is that politics of identity that is the handmaiden of hate and that allows some deranged individuals in their minds to justify the types of activities that we have so sadly witnessed in the past week in New Zealand.We have a duty in this House and in this country to recognise the basis of our rights and our common humanity that is in each of us—that is our inherent value as individuals. We have a duty to reject the politics of identity that allows those individuals to be dehumanised and subsumed by the deranged to the values that deranged people ascribe to particular groups. There is occasionally a sad and unwitting irony in the statements of those who with the best of intentions seek to defend the rights of those victims but accidentally buy into the same logic that some people can be worth less than others if only we identify them first and foremost by their group membership and their inherent dignity and inalienable rights as an individual as being secondary.I'm proud to have led a party in this Parliament that has unapologetically and consistently said that the rights begin with the individual New Zealander that they are held by all of us that they are equal and that they are sacred. I hope that we will carry on as a country honouring those rights because the best way to defy the collective ideology of terror is never to allow it to erode our values as a free society. Thank you Mr Speaker.