Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā ngā rangatira o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [To the authorities languages esteemed ones of a hundredfold and to the leaders of the Great Ocean of Kiwa greetings salutations and acknowledgments to you collectively and to us all.]Talofa lava malo e lelei kia orana bula vinaka and wunya which is an indigenous greeting to our whanaunga from Longman in Queensland. Greetings to all of our Pacific parliamentarian colleagues—nau mai haere mai. I am proud to stand as the member of Parliament for Manurewa in South Auckland. I want to acknowledge our tuakana Su'a William Sio. In my electorate 35 percent of the whānau whom I represent are Pacific and 28 percent are Māori. So my electorate is very much a Māori-Pacific electorate.I really want to focus on the key theme of Parliament and the community and I do that within the capacity of my role as co-chair—with my colleague Joanne Hayes—of our Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians group. I have now attended three of our Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships forums the last of which was held in Samoa in April of this year. That is part of the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development initiative which comes directly out of the Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration signed by the Pacific Islands Forum in 2012. Our focus has been on women's economic empowerment and freedom from violence but I think the most important one has been on developing women as leaders within our respective democracies.I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge my colleagues: Selina Napa Tetangi Matapo Ali'imalemanu Alofa Tuuau Dr Puakena Boreham and Sherwood Tibon who is a male but he has been to our forum representing the Marshall Islands. It has been amazing for us to come together to focus on these initiatives. I also want to highlight that in addition to these initiatives in Samoa we also focused on climate change. My colleague Poto Williams has highlighted what climate change means in terms of the informal sector and the ability of our women in our villages to make the crafts to take to market to feed the whānau.We have also made strong stances on West Papua. I want to tautoko the Pacific Islands Forum and in fact those countries that have led the way at the United Nations about what is happening in West Papua. We must do something about it so it is a wonderful opportunity for us to discuss what we should be doing in the future about this particular issue. Obviously from the Pacific Islands Forum itself there is only one women-specific priority which is about cervical cancer. We have had a concerted effort about how we can tautoko that particular issue. I really would also like to acknowledge in her absence our tuakana—I call her our matriarch of the Pacific—the Hon Fiame Naomi Mata'afa. This year particularly in Samoa it was an opportunity for us as women to celebrate the temporary special measure that Samoa introduced. Having a goal of 10 percent of your parliamentarians being women is a goal that I think every democracy in the Pacific should have. In addition to Samoa I also want to acknowledge Bougainville and I want to acknowledge Tonga. Tonga apparently is considering it. I actually would urge that you do it. I think if you follow Samoa's lead then it could provide a really good opportunity to ensure that you have women in your House. In addition I want to acknowledge that you do have a woman in your Parliament—she got in 3 months ago in a by-election.I also want to acknowledge Vanuatu. I believe Vanuatu is also considering temporary special measures. In highlighting Vanuatu I also want to acknowledge that at a local government level Vanuatu actually has been doing a lot of work. It has an aspiration for 30 to 34 percent of its local government representatives being women and in fact in Port Vila and Luganville they have nine women counsellors and they have two deputy mayors. So there is a lot of work happening. What I want to finish on is to say that human rights are women's rights. Probably the only other human rights issue I want to take the opportunity to highlight is that LGBTI rights are human rights. In too many of our countries LGBTI people are still treated as criminals. I think it is time that we face this issue as an issue of principle. Are LGBTI members of whānau? Yes. Are they members of aiga? Yes. Do they have whakapapa? Yes. We should stop calling them criminals because the Palagi brought that into our countries. It is time that we addressed that issue. Kia ora.