Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth) (remote): Kia ora koutou Mr Speaker and to the House. I thank you for an opportunity for me to speak on the Harmful Digital Communications (Unauthorised Posting of Intimate Visual Recording) Amendment Bill at the third reading. Again as most of those this afternoon have said I just say thank you to Louisa Wall for championing another piece of legislation to protect people to care for people and to ensure the whole wellbeing of someone who often is vulnerable in this space. This piece of legislation seeks to amend the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. And very much this bill is about introducing a new offence of knowingly posting a digital communication that is an intimate visual recording without the consent of the person who is the subject that is being recorded. We've heard this throughout the day.Now as a person who has worked with young people for many many years I understand the challenges that we're facing in this modern world and I was reflecting on it earlier. On my bookshelf I probably have about five or six photo albums from all of my life before social media. I probably have taken more photos this year on my phone than are in all of those photo albums. We're living in a different world and as legislators as leaders we need to ensure that we are tracking ensure that we are often playing catch-up—I'd like to say ahead of the ball for most things—but sometimes particularly with things like cellphones and social media it very much is a game of catch-up. For most people in this Parliament we didn't grow up as teenagers with a cellphone in our pocket and the ability to connect with the world but also the ability to be bullied the ability to be harassed the ability to take photos whether consensual or not and then what was done with those photos which this piece of legislation is looking at.As I reflect on our history and where we are as a male speaking to this piece of legislation I realised that we as men must speak up. I was going to say to our children how we live our lives better and how we do this better but I realised actually I need to be talking to my peers I need to be talking to my seniors and I need to be talking to my friends about the fact that Boys will be boys—it's just a joke" is no longer acceptable in the 21st century. The whole phrase "boys will be boys" is just something that should be no more and I believe that the taking and then the using of intimate photos is just another one of those often clubroom gags it would be seen or sharing it around with your mates. And of course as this legislation is about it's not stopping people from sharing intimate images; it's actually around ensuring that they aren't shared and they aren't used to bully—they aren't used to blackmail.I was reading earlier from a survey—it was back in 2016 in New Zealand. It was looking around abuse and harassment within New Zealand. It said that 52 percent of women have experienced some frame of online harassment. This number rose to 72 percent amongst those under 30 and the same was for men—that the numbers under 30 were far higher than those over 30. So it shows that our online worlds have changed massively that our under-30s and so on are so used to now the online world that we need to make sure we are here to support and we are here to ensure that people are protected. Looking through this research and reading notes about this piece of legislation we also looked into the fact that this kind of abuse this kind of sexual abuse and harassment has mental health implications and they're very similar mental health implications to that of sexual assault: feelings of depression; feelings of helplessness; feelings of being violated or abused; feelings of being afraid; and of course feelings around suicide—and that's what shame does that's what fear does that's what stigma does and that's what guilt does.So this piece of legislation is around ensuring that people are safe online. There's a lot more work to do; this is one piece of it. But it's ensuring that people are kept safe online and if I choose to if someone else chooses to share an image that can't be used against them. I'm grateful to be part of a Parliament that is working hard for the wellbeing of all people but in particular of younger people. Again looking at young people I've worked with over the years at the age of 14 15 16 or 17 the consequences aren't always thought through so much; the consequences aren't reflected in terms of what could happen in the future. So I want to thank Louisa Wall. I want to thank the members of the Justice Committee and those that have submitted. I commend this bill to the House.Motion agreed to.Bill read a third time.Sitting suspended from 5.58 p.m. to 7 p.m."