Chhour KarenKAREN CHHOUR (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. Recent weeks have highlighted to me exactly why I came into Parliament. I came here to fight for the most vulnerable. I survived dealing with our State care system while growing up and I know what it's like to be treated as an identity group first and a person second and right now I cannot express how utterly disappointed I am in the way our so-called leadership is operating. We've seen MPs making posts on social media saying things like Let's go fight some Nazis." we've seen videos online of MPs and Ministers cheering and dancing while violence and destruction is going on around them and we're seeing Ministers having to apologise for their actions far too often. Just last week the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence proudly cried that she knows who is responsible for the violence in the world and that it's cis white men. New Zealanders rightly called her out on these divisive and utterly factually wrong words. She issued a so-called clarification just roundabout words which clarified nothing. If you spend five minutes looking at her social media the Minister was clearly stating her truly held beliefs. The words of someone in her position hold weight and as any survivor knows and as we should expect the Minister to know sexual and family violence is a complex nuanced and insidious issue. I was disgusted to see the Minister smirking painting the issue with such broad dismissive and totally incorrect strokes. New Zealanders were right to call her out. Since that Saturday I have received messages many messages from victims of sexual and domestic violence who feel their trauma was belittled for political points—those whose trauma had not come from white males. What struck me hard were the messages that I received from male victims. Male victims often struggle to come forward when they are assaulted or harmed. There can be such a sense of shame and a fear of being judged and this can often be made worse for them if the perpetrator is a woman. They feel shame that they were unable to protect themselves or that people just won't believe them. Many have expressed to me that they feel there is very little support or genuine understanding that men can be victimised too. They tell me they are just expected to man up which can be even more harmful and hurtful for them. These are the subtleties which any decent Minister should know and should respect. But the Hon Marama Davidson does not seem to do either. I've also heard from Māori victims who have been victimised by other Māori and Māori women are disproportionately affected by domestic violence. This does not come just from white men. How many victims who are suffering did the Minister dismiss just to continue with the blind determination to blame all the world's problems on white men and for all that the division the Hon Marama Davidson has caused with her careless words what has been accomplished? The statistics paint a heartbreaking picture. The most recent police annual report shows family violence reoffending trending up. There were over 175000 investigations into family harm. That's up 47 percent from five years ago. Police attended a family harm event every three minutes. Charges for sexual assault and related offences are up 47 percent from two years ago.What is she doing about it as the Minister? In the last 251 days she's sent two press releases both for programmes being launched by other Ministers. She's brought one paper to Cabinet—one paper in eight months—to set up a working group. I ask the Minister: what does she have to show for three years in this job? I came to Parliament to fight for those most vulnerable. But Marama Davidson and the Green Party seem to be happy to just divide our most vulnerable by race and gender and to set up working groups and I feel that New Zealand deserves better."