BROOKE VAN VELDEN (Deputy Leader—ACT): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I stand this evening in support of the second reading of the Russia Sanctions Bill on behalf of the ACT party, and it is very important that we are passing this law tonight. The situation in the Ukraine is not only devastating for the people currently in Ukraine and those millions who have been driven from their homes to seek refuge in bordering countries but it is devastating for everybody who believes in liberal democracy around the world, that we could see the bullying actions of Vladimir Putin, not just stand at being bullying but turning into forms of unprovoked invasion in a liberal democracy. 