Coates BarryBARRY COATES (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. I am pleased to rise to speak on this crucially important bill the New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill in its second reading. I have also been pleased to participate in some of the discussions on the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee and I add my thanks to the former chair of the committee and committee members.From my perspective terrorism and extremism are a threat to citizens around the world and security agencies do have an important role in averting these threats. But we also need to remember that terrorists succeed if our human rights are trampled in the process of surveillance. We lose the strength of our democracy and our freedom and that is what we have seen happen too often in the past.We have seen spying on New Zealand citizens and on anti-Springbok protesters and the attempt to prevent asylum by Ahmed Zaoui. We have seen raids on the Tūhoe people. We have seen the Dotcom arrest and spying on Nicky Hager. Some of these cases are very recent. We have also seen mass interception of communications data. We have seen New Zealand spying on our allies including our Pacific Island neighbours. We have seen weak oversight by Parliament over these activities and we have seen New Zealand collaborating closely in the Five Eyes" network. The latest WikiLeaks revelations show that these surveillance threats are more pervasive than ever. This is only going to get worse under Donald Trump.We as a society have participated in interventions in Iraq Afghanistan Syria and other Middle Eastern countries that far from extinguishing the threat of terrorism have exacerbated that threat. We have created breeding grounds for extremism.I pay tribute to my colleagues—to Keith Locke to Russel Norman and many others—for raising these issues consistently over many years. The Green Party has been a watchdog on these issues within Parliament and beyond. These issues came to such a crisis point that they precipitated the independent review known as the Cullen-Reddy review of our intelligence services. This background says that we have had a major problem we continue to have a major problem and therefore we need extremely strong controls over our security and intelligence services.I agree with my colleague Dr Kennedy Graham that there are some positive elements to this bill and I would highlight the additional powers that have been granted to the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security stronger parliamentary accountability and controls over the purpose and approval process for warrants. These are important steps forward. But during the process we have also heard deep concerns from across New Zealand society about these issues. We have heard concerns from InternetNZ and other organisations associated with the internet. We have seen Spark and Vodafone expressing concern and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner the Human Rights Commission and the Law Society. There are many many more who have expressed concerns that we get this balance right. So the balance that we need to strike is between the necessary surveillance and the protection of our rights.We see a problem. There is not enough protection of New Zealand citizens from spying. Under this bill the Government Communications Security Bureau will be permitted to spy on New Zealanders. It provides the powers to target whistleblowers rather than protecting them. This bill strengthens oversight but the Intelligence and Security Committee lacks important powers still and as Grant Robertson said its membership is too narrow.The seven harms that are outlined in this bill include threats to New Zealand's interests and threats that adversely affect the operations of the Government. These purposes and this rationale for surveillance is far too broad.I would conclude by saying that terrorists win when our human rights our privacy and our freedoms as citizens are lost. Although recognising there has been progress this bill does not sufficiently protect our human rights our privacy and our freedoms."