Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. Just a couple of days ago there was yet another racially motivated attack on a father a Chinese man in our super-diverse Auckland City outside a supermarket—Pak 'N Save in Albany—on Sunday morning. He was a software specialist a role vitally needed in this country. There are well over 3000 ICT job vacancies today in New Zealand. He was assaulted. To quote his daughter who was actually reported in the New Zealand Herald 'He was trying to shield himself and ended up on the floor.' 'The other man kept on kicking him and hitting him.' He tried to hide behind [his] shopping trolley but the man continued his attack and at one point threw eggs he had purchased at her father. One witness also a Chinese man called the police and stayed with her father until they arrived. By the time [the officer] arrived the attacker had fled. Her father [at] this point [was] kicked or punched in his lower back chest stomach and head and was covered in egg residue. He was taken to a nearby White Cross clinic for assessment having suffered multiple bruises to his head."I commend the bravery of the Pak 'N Save Albany supermarket manager who stepped in to protect this man but this kind of Asian hate and attacks on Asian people has actually increased since the advent of COVID having actually come across to New Zealand and people blaming COVID on the Asian community. I'd like to commend every member of the public who steps in to say no to racism and actually just stop anti-ethnic violence and to stop Asian hate because they certainly are doing a heck of a lot better than a Government who only gives lip service to this issue. The charge to go back to where you come from is one that echoes across this country for ethnic New Zealanders despite many of them—actually quite a majority of them—having actually lived here for generations and yet they get this thing: "Go back to your country." Especially for those who actually are born in New Zealand where are they to go back to? They don't have a country apart from New Zealand.I have personally been slandered in this very House by people who were rewarded with high office under Labour. They claim hate speech laws are needed. Maybe they should look into themselves and the deficits in law and order that have sprung up under this Labour Government and execute and implement laws that we already have in this country. There are dozens of stories that I could potentially tell on this particular issue but we can look into the very electorate of the Prime Minister: Mt Albert. I have visited many shops in Sandringham and many shops are covered up with boards plywood. The windows haven't actually been replaced. There are shopkeepers who are sleeping on the floor of their shop because they are worried that they will once again be ram raided. The majority of these people are Asian. One particular shop has been ram raided and broken into more than a dozen times. There was a shisha shop—not even a vape shop—that actually sells intricate shisha pipes for ethnic communities which was reduced to one window only. The shopkeeper doesn't even open the door wide and he had actually been broken into many times at least five times in as many months. The instances were caused by teenagers for this particular man. The Prime Minister cannot even bring law and order to her own electorate. She cannot even keep the streets of Mt Albert safe. Labour are not backing New Zealand's ethnic communities and they cannot even keep the shops in Sandringham and the people safe. It is time the Government actually does something—or do all ethnic communities just wait until National returns to Government? We can certainly do the action. This Government is all about pretty conversations huis and lip service. They are certainly not delivering for the ethnic community."