SpeechJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Green Party to oppose the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Amendment Bill.Hon David Bennett: Oh seriously?JAN LOGIE: Yeah definitely. We've heard certain takes on what this bill will do—another way of looking at it. We've heard some respect for that alternative view expressed by Labour members—or a Labour member—so I want to outline that here. So what it does is it reverses the onus of proof from the police to show that someone has committed a crime and that the proceeds being seized are connected to that crime on to the person targeted to show their money or assets are not proceeds of crime. Generally this is a concept of law that's frowned upon for obvious reasons about the effort that's required to prove that you purchased something and you didn't commit a crime—that's quite a tough thing to go through. It also takes away the requirement to have a specific crime alleged at all. So what is being alleged is mere association or that the assets are tainted by gang involvement and that is pretty much a pretty incredible derivation away from our criminal law standards that protect people against unfair State or police sanction without proof.We've heard that through the Justice Committee the definition of associate" has been tightened so that it can be more than a mere acquaintance. As somebody who lives in a street with a lot of Mongrel Mob members I guess I should be grateful that that's been tightened. But the fact is that family and friends of these gang members—which will include members in this House—will still be potential targets of this legislation because there will be people in this House who have family members who are involved in gangs because they are in our communities right across this country and have been for a long time. I want to mention too just in terms of the reflection and some of the rhetoric particularly from the previous National member Mark Mitchell around gangs is just—I can't put aside the conversation I was hearing from the gangs at the royal commission over the last few weeks about what brought them into the gangs.Hon David Bennett: Oh gosh—drug dealing and prostitution. JAN LOGIE: What brought them into the gangs was their experience of abuse in State institutions—of being alienated from their families and abused sexually physically and emotionally in the supposed care of the State. So they got to a point where they did not trust the State or have any interest in society because they had been so deeply hurt from it. Now we look at this piece of legislation that will target the friends and family who will now potentially be open to having their goods taken away from them because of their association and their family membership with somebody in a gang. The proof will be on them to prove that they got that property through legitimate means and that will impose significant burdens including attendance at court the costs of legal representation the risks of cost orders and inquiries into their finances and being the subject of search and examination orders because they have a family member or a friend who is in a gang. This is right throughout our country—there will be members in the House who that could happen to. Except we all think we're protected from it because we've got status. And that's actually probably right because as I think the section 7 report stated "Given the prominence of gangs within some Māori communities there is a more than fanciful risk that community work iwi or whānau-based associations in which gang members also participate may be used to establish an association with a member of an organised criminal group for the purposes of starting investigations. Whanaungatanga obligations mean that Māori may be particularly likely to engage in association with whānau who have gang affiliations. This may place them at greater risk of being subject to these orders unjustifiably or because of police bias." That police bias—they're working on it but it's well established and we are creating more grounds for the extension of that bias. The Green Party will not support that."