Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Tēnā tātou e te Whare. I rise to speak to the third reading of the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Bill. I want to begin by extending my aroha—the aroha of Te Paati Māori—to victims of the terrorist attack in New Lynn. Our aroha goes out to the victims of the March 15 attack in Ōtautahi which was the original catalyst for bringing this legislation before the House. We unequivocally condemn all acts of violence and terror. That is why when we think about the victims of terrorism our thoughts also go back to generations of tangata whenua and first-nations peoples who have suffered from this country's history of State-sponsored terror.For our people this has been a reality since the colonisers reached these shores. I think about the women and children brutally shot down and burnt alive in Rangiaowhia on the Sabbath in 1864. This was terrorism. I think about the people of Parihaka who were invaded raped and dispossessed in the systemic campaign of terror in 1881. This was terrorism. I think about my Tūhoe people at Maungapōhatu under the leadership of Rua Kēnana in 1916 who was arrested his son murdered along with others and women raped and terrorised for exercising their mana motuhake. This was terrorism. I think about the atrocities inflicted on our tangata moana our Moana-nui-a-Kiwa whanaunga in the Dawn Raids between 1974 and 1976. This was terrorism. I think again of my Tūhoe people as they once again suffered State-sponsored terror when in 2007 heavily armed officers working like assassins in a foreign war stormed school buses in Ruatoki locked kaumātua in garages all day and essentially put Te Urewera under martial law. This was terrorism. I think about my personal experience of the raid by the New Zealand Navy and the New Zealand Police on my people of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui in 2010 when we peacefully protested against deep-sea oil drilling company Petrobras in the Raukūmara trench within our tribal territory when our skipper of our iwi boat was arrested and left two of our iwi kaumātua to navigate their way back to the port in Tauranga. This was terrorism.All these acts were enabled by legislation that passed through this House laws that have labelled our people terrorists. The recent act of State-sponsored terror on Tūhoe was done under the guise of anti-terror legislation which goes to show just how dangerous these laws can be and that they can perpetuate the violence they seek to end. One of our strongest concerns with this bill is the new planning and preparation offence which is intended to be used to prosecute would-be terrorists before they've even committed any violence. It is quite likely that if this proposed legislation was on the books in 2007 particularly this offence the State would have had legal power to convict my Tūhoe whanaunga. We saw that they tried their very best to get Terrorism Suppression Act offences to stick. In the end they failed. They resorted to firearms charges. It would have made it far easier for the State to succeed against our people if they could have simply alleged that they were thinking and feeling and use the evidence in court.Legal and human rights experts including the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties have expressed serious concerns with the way that this bill attacks fundamental human rights and freedoms. It's pointed out in their submission: Conspiring to commit an offence has always been an offence in Aotearoa. Indeed that is the name of section 310 of the Crimes Act 1961 …" Other provisions are also deeply concerning including the power to search properties vehicles and individuals without warrant. Once again this Government is creating laws that disregard basic legal and moral protections of rights including privacy that are the bedrock of our human rights framework. We all support keeping our people safe. We all want a country free of violence discrimination racism and terror in all forms but the way to achieve that is not through Draconian legislation. Our people know without a shadow of a doubt that this will be used against the surveillance and criminalisation of tangata whenua and minorities; hence why the minor parties stand in solidarity today. Shame on this House today for supporting such a fundamental erosion of human rights that we hold dear in Aotearoa. Te Paati Māori is proud to oppose this bill. Kia ora tātou."