Maipi-Clarke Hana-RawhitiHANA-RAWHITI MAIPI-CLARKE (Te Pāti Māori—Hauraki-Waikato): Tēnā rā koe e te Pīka otirā tēnā rā tatou e te Whare. E tū ana ahau ki te waha i ngā kōrero mā Te Pāti Māori i te rangi nei ā e kaha whakahē ana i tēnei o ngā pire kua tae mai ki rō Pāremata i tēnei rangi.[Thank you Mr Speaker indeed greetings to us all in the House.I stand to give voice to the statements of the Māori Party today and we strongly oppose this bill that has arrived in Parliament today.]Te Pāti Māori is deeply concerned about this Government's decision to reinstate the three strikes regime. Our principal concern is this legislation will only worsen an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system. These issues have been well articulated and documented by the great minds like Dr Moana Jackson in The Maori and the Criminal Justice System: A New Perspective — He Whaipaanga Hou and more recently by movements and organisations like JustSpeak. Further still in its own advice to Cabinet and through its regulatory impact statement the Ministry of Justice explained that Reinstating a three strikes regime will exacerbate the over-representation of populations which are already disproportionately represented in the justice system. While there are options to modify the regime which would minimise the overall impact on Māori Māori would continue to be disproportionately represented in the relative terms perhaps even more so than under a broader regime."Public commentary including by Criminal Bar Association vice president Annabel Creswell also raised doubts about the legislation: "Criminal justice policy has to be based on evidence and there's no evidence that three strikes either reduces crime or assists the rehabilitation". Evidence briefs from the Ministry of Justice explained that there's no evidence of three strikes policy reducing crime or having a serious effect on crimes at all.What we do know about three strikes legislation is that during the time it was in place here in Aotearoa Māori and Pasifika received over 50 percent of the strikes and 63 percent of those with a second strike were Māori. Three strikes in its short term had unjustly perpetrated racism and caught Māori with no evidence of reducing crime.Our grave concern is that this legislation will result in unjust sentences which will only deliver mass imprisonment to Māori and Pasifika people nationwide and that this House is setting into place a regime held up by a lack of evidence and racial bias that should shock all peoples who called this place their home. Te Pāti Māori insists on intelligent policy and rehabilitation. Rather this legislation strengthens the race-based system of colonisation that continues to deliver race-based outcomes. The evidence shows that tangata whenua are more likely to be treated unjustly at one or all of these stages in the criminal justice process. The extent of the racial bias within the criminal justice system means that we must do everything we can to stop the pipeline to prison.Finally advice put to the Ministers also notes that regarding the three strikes legislation claims before the Waitangi Tribunal are possible including the live and existing Waitangi Tribunal claim Te Rau o te Tika: the Justice System Kaupapa Inquiry Wai 3060. Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi means that until outstanding justice inequities between Māori and non-Māori are resolved meaningfully no justice system in Aotearoa will ever be just in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.We encourage tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti allies everywhere to utilise every tool pathway and process available to advance the transformation of the criminal justice system here in Aotearoa.Nō reira koinei aku koha ki tēnei o ngā pire. E kaha whakahē ana Te Pāti Māori i tēnei pire.[And so that is my contribution to this bill. The Māori Party strongly opposes this bill.]We oppose this bill. Tēnā rā koe e te Pīka."