Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green) (remote): Al salam alaikum. We remember today that day three years ago when our nation's heart was broken—my heart was broken. The wound is still fresh as we remember the 51 shuhada all those still living with the harrowing injuries of that day their whānau and their loved ones. We wrap our arms around the survivors our Muslim community across the whole of Aotearoa and Ōtautahi Christchurch. I want to remember that we did that immediately as the terror happened as we found out. I want to remember those vigils across Aotearoa where we all held our little ones a little bit tighter as we remembered little Mucad Ibrahim—at three years old the youngest victim of the attack. We all remember one or two special victims as we learnt all of their stories and we sat together we came together. I remember as well that the city of Dunedin ran out of flowers on Saturday the 16th because they were all at the mosque.That is the New Zealand who welcomed my family and I here as refugees when I was just nine years old. We were fleeing oppression the risk of torture. We'd lived through a war. I'll never forget coming down that escalator at Auckland Airport with my terrified parents wondering if we would be allowed in. We were welcomed here. So I want to thank and remember every single New Zealander who stood for our values as this terror attack unfolded and for the past three years. You are on the right side of history and it matters to our frightened communities. I'll never forget that a Syrian family were amongst the victims of the mosque attacks. They had fled a harrowing war and violence they'd found safety here but they died in Christchurch New Zealand. The terrorist who murdered them hated refugees and he hated Muslims. We owe those victims that truth. We owe them more than remembrance. We now have an opportunity to act beyond our gun laws beyond talking about terrorism. We have had a royal commission report and the focus of that report beyond stopping violence is stopping hate. We know that this was an act of terror. We know it was committed by a white supremacist. It went unchecked because police and national security here didn't see white supremacy white nationalism as enough of a threat as they surveilled the Muslim community itself as they surveilled Māori activists. We know that the SIS still continues to list any white nationalist group on its watch-list outside of the terrorist of the Christchurch mosque shootings himself. Our justice system we know is policing and operating on a target of Māori and Pasifika men rather than far-right violence. We know as well because the royal commission told us that this hate began with hate speech. It was allowed to spread online. History has taught us as well as this terror attack that atrocity begets atrocity and it starts with hate speech. We know that our Muslim and ethnic communities have been reporting hate crimes and hate speech for years. The Muslim council of New Zealand told us that. But there was no way for police to track it because hate crimes aren't clearly defined in our Crimes Act—even real targeted threats of gun violence that are motivated by hate. I know that as my daily truth as a politician who is perceived to be Muslim and known to be a refugee and I've spoken about the threats I get of gun violence death threats rape threats of shotguns to be loaded based specifically on those characteristics. Every minority in New Zealand knows that threat in online spaces and bleeding into our everyday lives. Our Muslim whānau Māori—our East Asian and Pacific communities saw it with the racist threats after COVID—our rainbow community trans women. And it spreads online. As leaders we have to stop and listen. The truth is that this is a global phenomenon—disinformation deliberately spread eventually radicalising and making us all unsafe. We can no longer depend on the goodwill of online platforms to police themselves. Facebook doesn't care about our marginalised communities. Twitter doesn't care. Google and YouTube only took down that video on the day because they were forced. The violence and vitriol of the recent protests outside Parliament with elements of far-right hate with signs of white supremacy taking advantage of disillusion grifting disinformation is a perfect example of that. The royal commission told us we need hate speech laws. We need hate crimes to find. The New Zealand Police wants that. It's time to act. That is what compassion would look like. We know too that what allows hate against our Muslim community or ethnic and indigenous communities is more insidious. It's in media portrayals. It's even in our own responses as politicians when war or crisis happens in who we sanction and who we shelter and help. Our refugee quota has been mostly closed for the duration of the pandemic. Refugees and the family reunification programme haven't been filled. It's time for that to begin.Today our Green call to Government is to commit to filling our refugee quota including the numbers left behind since 2020 including families ripped apart by war. Today as New Zealand stood with Ukraine—as we should—by allowing 4000 families of refugees in Ukraine to be reunited we need to remember that March 15th and the shuhada deserve the same. Treating all refugees and migrants the same matters. I see the Opposition even supported that Ukrainian visa. So today on March 15th let's also remember Afghanistan Palestine Myanmar Yemen Syria Iraq Hong Kong and Eritrea. COVID has only made the plight of refugees more dangerous including refugees of colour.Aotearoa with that commitment could say again that refugees are welcome here. That is what inclusion could look like. The truth is that as politicians on both sides of this House we are responsible for humanising our ethnic communities. Our most vulnerable communities are hurt. The people at those incredible vigils across Aotearoa three years ago are watching. They will hold us to account. Their acts of love their resolve is the standard we have to hold ourselves to.We must show the rest of the world as they are watching too that love peace and compassion is a far stronger force than the forces of hate and division. We must shine a light bravely on the shadows of racism and hate that exist in pockets here and act really act against them. Then—only then—can we weave that incredible outpouring of love for our Muslim and migrant communities that we have seen over the past three years into the enduring fabric of our society.Kia hora te marino[May peace be widespread]Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana[May the ocean become like pounamu]Aroha atu aroha mai[Give love receive love]Tātou i a tātou katoa.[Let us show respect for one another.]Thank you.