Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker and as painful as it is for me I'm not going to engage in that game. It is Rape Awareness Week and I would like to speak directly to the survivors of sexual abuse in my debate contribution this afternoon. I want to pay tribute today to the Me Too movement and all of the women including those in this House and men and people who have been advocating for years for an end to rape culture in this country. I want to also acknowledge all those people who are not able to speak out because it is not safe or right for them to do so. Me Too is our contemporary tech-enabled version of the 1970s or 1980s women's movement. That movement back then enabled a massive cultural shift and the development of services independent—and perhaps in spite of—the State. My hope is that this time this Government will actively support the efforts of these people particularly women and amplify their efforts to create a safe and equal society. We all need to be working together to eliminate sexual violence from our society and I believe we can do it.Just over six years ago in this House in my maiden speech I spoke about sexual violence. I talked about the horrific levels of sexual violence in our society: one in three girls one in seven boys and up to one in two trans people being likely to be victims of sexual violence in our country. I acknowledged that I was one of those statistics as are many people in our country and that the people have been victimised by what is predominantly men's violence but that we are from all ethnicities all ages genders sexualities across an abilities spectrum and from every economic stratum. Sexual violence sadly does not discriminate in that sense.It was important for me then to bring those stories into this House to break the silence to make sure that the shame was shifted from those experiencing the violence to be held at least in part by us as a society so that we can take our role in eradicating the space that enables this violence in our society. I acknowledged that is a duty for us in this House as representatives.I noted that it wasn't just enough to talk about doing these things and at that time we were a few years on from the Task Force for Action on Sexual Violence and had not seen any action. So it's now interesting to come back six years on and reflect on what I've seen happen. Under the National Government I saw some terrible terrible things happen. We saw lives lost over the changes to ACC. We saw cuts to funding and long waiting lists and we saw the law reform that we so desperately need stalled. And then because of the activism and the calls from our community and people in this House we saw those decisions reversed by the last National Government.I want to commit in this House and call every member of this House to join us in the efforts to the next stage to work towards having a system where everyone who experiences violence can get the help when they need it and people who use violence can be held accountable and be helped to change so that we can wipe out this violence from our society. It is absolutely achievable and I am committed in my role and in this House to do that. There is much left to do and I am fired up to do my bit so that one day our children can look back on this time now in the same way that we look back on slavery and the idea of children working in chimneys and feel grateful that they live in a different time—a time free of gender-based violence.