If we want to continue to show the best of who we are, then we must all work together, at every level of Government, to work out the best long-term response to what happened on Friday. Our shared resolve is beyond dispute. None of us want anything like that to happen again. But it is the decisions that we make in the coming days and weeks that will have the most profound impact on whether or not we are successful. These decisions give us a chance to do better, to address past mistakes, and build a genuinely inclusive future, for the goal of terrorism is to scare us into changing who we are. And so, as we work together to protect our communities, let us remind ourselves that upholding our values is not a weakness, it is a strength. Unless the Government knows of another clear and present danger that is likely to crystallise in the coming weeks, the use of urgency to rush through legislation should be opposed on the grounds that it is more important to get right than it is to be seen to be doing something. Rushed legislation in response to events runs the risk of increasing harm to innocent people, particularly Māori, migrants, and refugees. What we have seen around the world is that Governments do not make good decisions when they are driven by fear. Rather, the best way to prevent further violence in the future is by upholding values of inclusion and equality. 