Davidson MaramaGENERAL DEBATEHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. It's really important today and now at this time perhaps more than recent times where the Greens want to ensure a vision and a narrative for peaceful collective action that explicitly rejects violence and aggression is put up above all of the noise that we have been hearing as one of the most important parts of our kaupapa and the heart of Aotearoa that it can offer to all of us and around the world. The Green Party has always had a long history of actively supporting non-violence and working for collective action and totally rejecting aggression working towards justice. We can see today why it is so important that disagreement is resolved peacefully democratically and in good faith. It is so important that we see conflict resolved in a way that restores our collective confidence in each other and in our systems and especially in a way that restores everyone's support to prioritise public health and collective wellbeing. Standing against violence requires actively working for peace and justice and we have seen that across Aotearoa from people of all experiences and background whether it is people cooking for each other and caring for each other and gardening for each other and connecting with each other putting masks on for each other staying at home for each other and being vaccinated for each other. Actively working for justice means purposefully naming the injustice and creating better systems to achieve what we all want to see. When there is unilateral violence and aggression whether by State actors like the Russian Government invading Ukraine right now or by some of the individuals who are protesting right outside Parliament who have assaulted and harassed and put up hateful hateful vibes towards members of the public and our staff here—when that violence pervades people get hurt. Whether it is the violent premise of opposing public health mandates that have been put in place to protect children who are too young to be vaccinated to protect our elderly kaumātua or to protect immunocompromised and disabled people that premise that opposes those safety protections is at its heart violent. And in war and violent conflict it is the people on all sides with the least power and resource who are killed and hurt and traumatised and we actively have to reject that violent conflict. The protest outside has a violent premise and that harms the very people it pretends to support. So we see today both the fundamental importance of peaceful resolution and the challenges of building that world without violence. When people are threatened the path to peaceful de-escalation becomes less clear. We've seen this but we believe that when it is most important to speak up for the alternatives is exactly when and long before we see violent conflict and to speak up for collective action that says that together we will help those who need support the most those who have been pushed to the sidelines and the margins the most. We call on and support the community leadership the grassroots leadership the Tiriti justice - led positions that have provided an important framework for us all to achieve those goals. And the politicians and Government right here in this House and on Zoom have an integral role to play whether that justice is increasing incomes for those on the absolute lowest and those receiving benefits whether it is ensuring a living wage for all people whether it is making sure we are treating housing as a human right and not just a way to build wealth for people who are already wealthy whether it's making sure that our health systems are properly resourced and authorised whether it is making sure our schools and teachers and nurses and health workforce are properly supported and paid whether it is strong climate action for generations to come or protecting our environment that is our role. That is what we must pursue. Thank you Mr Speaker.