Logie Jan; Dyson RuthJAN LOGIE (Green): Ngā mana e rua Tohu Kākahi Te Whiti o Rongomai tēnā kōrua. Ki a koutou ngā uri o Parihaka o Taranaki iwi nau mai haere mai haere mai.[The two leaders Tohu Kākahi Te Whiti o Rongomai greetings to you both. To you the descendants of Parihaka of the tribe of Taranaki welcome welcome welcome.]It's my distinct honour to stand and take a call in the second reading of Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka the Parihaka Reconciliation Bill on behalf of the Green Party. While second reading speeches are traditionally a recapping of the submissions and the amendments to the bill as with everyone else who's spoken on this piece of legislation today I feel compelled to acknowledge the importance of this to us as a country and particularly for the people of Parihaka. I offer initially my gratitude for their role in our history. It's something that I wish more New Zealanders knew and understood and connected to because I believe firmly that we would all be in a much better place if we could connect to the legacy and the values that have been held in that very special place.I also want to acknowledge that I think this piece of legislation—which is not a settlement bill; it is a reconciliation bill—is another example of the Parihaka community and uri stepping out of what is the norm to offer all of us an expanded idea of what is possible. For the Crown it's another call for us to build relationships based on an acknowledgement of the history and to create a new beginning. This is very significant: that this was initiated by the Attorney-General—well in response from the people of Parihaka of course—and outside of the formal settlement process and that it is in here.There are many things in this piece of legislation. Its existence in itself is hugely significant. The fact that it contains the apology and the legacy statement—which is the history as I've heard repeated from inside Parihaka rather than other people's interpretation of that history which is what we are so often left with in this country—and that the spirit of that is so present in reading it is so different to what we normally are given in pieces of legislation and I want to acknowledge the importance and the vision in that.Of course we can't stand in this House representing the Crown and not again acknowledge the horror of the history and the importance of actually some of that detail which is what this apology brings into the record. This piece of legislation is to ensure that we never forget as a country.The Parihaka community was established as people were being driven off their land forcibly and violently by the Crown only so few years after the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. About 3 million acres across Taranaki and Waikato primarily was confiscated by the Crown.The legacy of that we see on a daily basis. Typically the conversation—at least on talkback—blames individuals with no acknowledgement of the benefit to Pākehā and the Crown in particular from that confiscation and theft and huge huge harm and with no acknowledgment that in the face of that a philosophy of peace was created—a non-violent resistance that has been looked to by communities all around the world and that just offers such a different way of resolving conflict that is just so powerful and so hopeful for all of us. Yet that peace was met with doubled-down violence by the Crown.As with others in the House I was incredibly privileged to be at the signing of Te Kawenata ō Rongo the deed of reconciliation on 9 June 2017. The walk up that road and being greeted by the food from the soil and the kumara and the kete and the children and the waiata and the stillness in the air and the mountain in the background watching us—knowing that the previous time the Crown had walked up that road had been with guns countering children and women and men in peace and they had mown them down—is something that I will never forget and I wish more people in this country would understand the profound harm that lies in our history and is all too often hidden and denied.So this bill seeks to bring that to the light. As the title of the bill states Te Pire Haeata is the new dawn and for us to have a new beginning.I do want to acknowledge that there were 39 submissions on this piece which really is about just bringing the deed of reconciliation into legislation in the House but required quite a bit of work despite the initial sense that this was quite simple. But that's often the way of how things sometimes—the detail which really matters can be lost in translation.So part of the changes that came through from submissions were the translation of haeata and ensuring that that was acknowledged and the real meaning of that and the dual meaning of that is dawn" and "new beginning"; ensuring that there was stronger wording to reflect the impact of particularly the changes in legislation that enabled the Crown to indefinitely detain the men from Parihaka after they had in effect kidnapped them and taken them away and separated them from their people and to reflect that there were several pieces of legislation that enabled the Crown to subvert the rule of law which is so often spoken about as if it is always sacrosanct but was not in the early days of colonisation in this House; and to strengthen the links between the deed and the bill including reference to the Parihaka-Crown Leaders' Forum and Te Huanga ō Rongo the relationship agreement and the Parihaka Fund. While the deed is itself legally binding it was important to submitters that there was more clarity between bringing some aspects of the deed into the legislation so that it would be on the record in this House and from this House moving forward. Indeed this is as much about what is going to happen in the future and resetting our relationship as it is about the terrible horror of the past and acknowledging the Parihaka community's authorship of the legacy statement. I suspect nobody reading it would think it had come from the Crown. It to me so speaks to the spirit of Parihaka and stands distinctly but I do think clarifying that authorship is really valuable—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): I'm sorry to interrupt the member but her time has expired. I call Dan Bidois."