Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's an honour for me to stand and take a call on this Harmful Digital Communications (Unauthorised Posting of Intimate Visual Recording) Amendment Bill in its second reading. I haven't been on the select committee—I've recently joined the select committee but I wasn't on the select committee to actually debate and work on this bill.But I do want to acknowledge the member Louisa Wall. Especially for new members of Parliament if you want an example of how to shepherd a member's bill through Parliament there is no better example of that than Louisa Wall. She brings meaningful bills to this House that actually are going to make a positive change in people's lives. She will engage with every member of the House doesn't matter what party they're in. She will bring experts in and she'll organise briefings. She'll bring people in that have been affected directly and are often the driver for her bringing these bills into the House. And she has experienced an enormous amount of success because she takes the time and she is genuine about it and I want to acknowledge her for the way that she approaches these members' bills. She has spent a lot of time with me working with me on previous bills. It doesn't mean we agree on everything and we've had some direct conversations but she is very effective because she's deeply passionate about what she does and she spends the time to make sure that she engages with all of us as members of Parliament to try and get as much support and to allow us to understand what her intent is and what the bill is trying to achieve. So I want to acknowledge and thank her for bringing this bill into the House.As legislators she has highlighted an issue that we're going to have to continue to face and work on because although the internet can be an enormous force for good we can also see that it can be an enormous force for evil as well. Probably just about all of us in this House and our family members have been victims ourselves of poor behaviour—very deep personal attacks trolling on the internet. I know that as a father my daughter as a 15-year-old having gone through a breakup with her boyfriend at school was the victim of online trolling and the use of proxies to attack her. I can tell you that it's the only time as a father that I felt that I couldn't protect her and it was hard and it was difficult to try and work through that. You can protect your child from a physical threat. You can protect them against bad decisions. But it's very very hard for a parent to protect their children from the types of attacks that they can experience online. I'm an ex-policeman and I'm a member of Parliament—I'm probably in a much stronger position to try and do that—and even I found it hard and difficult to find a solution for that. So we've got some big issues to face as legislators.Camilla Belich I want to acknowledge you and the comments that you were making around the mens rea. This is really important because I feel that the minute someone takes an intimate image of someone and puts it on the internet that's the mens rea. If they've done that without consent then all of us know any right-minded person knows that immediately there's a risk that you're going to have a massive negative impact on that person and the person that's been impacted; to the point where we know—and we see reports and we see articles; often it's silent and we don't see it—people kill themselves. They commit suicide. Because can any of us even try to contemplate or understand the pain and the shame and the embarrassment of having intimate pictures or videos put up on the internet? We have a wider issue to deal with.I know that in my own electorate it's something that I talk to my principals about as unfortunately today it's very easy particularly for young people and young men to have access to pornography online. And what it's doing is it's starting to distort and taint how they view healthy physical relationships. And it's almost becoming normalised in terms of sharing these images and putting these images online. We're putting a line in the sand and we're saying here in this Parliament with this bill that Louisa Wall has brought here Actually it's not OK." and we need to have those conversations. We need to be able to empower the police to take quick action and to send a clear signal that we're not going to put up with this; we are going to stop it. We have to be brave enough to have the conversations with our young people. And I don't want to say this is just a male problem—I know that females do it as well—but predominantly it is males; it's a male issue. So we need to be educating. We need to have strong mentors—male mentors—for our young men as they grow and they're dealing with and trying to navigate and negotiate their way through a whole lot of issues as well.But Louisa Wall thank you for bringing this bill to the House. It's a very good bill. I consider it a vanguard because I think that all of us as legislators need to carry on the momentum and keep looking at ways how we make the internet a much safer place and people much safer and protected from this type of behaviour. So thank you."