INGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): The three strikes law should be gone. It doesn't work, it's unfair, and we already have the systems in place to show fairness to victims. This law that we are proposing rectifies an aberration, a knee-jerk reaction from the National Party in 2010. It was an example of populist politics: pandering to the mainstream, looking for news headlines, locking people up and throwing away the key in a very simplistic way, and dividing the world up into criminals and victims.