Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Māori Development): E ngā mana e ngā rē rau ieriki-ieriki mā e ngā morehu o te iwi Moriori tēnā koutou. E ngā iwi taketake o te motu a Wharekauri kei te mihi. Nei anō tētahi o ngā uri whakaheke o Ngāti Tama o Ngāti Mutunga e tuku ngā mihi ki a koutou ā tēnā koutou. Ahakoa ko te aha o ngā kino nō muri rā ka panonihia te ao he ao rerekē ināianei. Me waiho ērā momo āhuatanga i te ao kōhatu. I tēnei wā e taea ana te kite ko te oranga tonutanga o te ahi kā o te iwi whānui o Moriori. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou ki a koe Māui e mihi ana ki a koe e hoa mō tō kaha ki te kōkiri tēnei kaupapa mai i te tīmata.Maumahara au maumahara tātou o te iwi Māori tō kaha ki te kōkiri tēnei kaupapa me hoki ki te kōkiri ngā kaupapa Māori koirā tō mahi Māui i ngā wā o mua tēnei te mihi ki a koe. Koutou e whakarongo mai nā tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. He Hōnore nui ki te tautoko ki te tū ki te kōrero e pā ana ki tēnei kaupapa i tēnei wā nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa.[To the authorities to the voices of the esteemed leaders and to the survivors of the Moriori people greetings. To the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands I greet you. Here stands one of those descended from Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga greeting you greetings.Despite past ill treatments the world has changed it is now a different world. We should consign those circumstances to the old world. Today it is possible to see the continued survival of the longstanding occupants the wider Moriori tribe. This is a tribute to all of you and to you Māui I acknowledge you my friend for your strength in driving this issue right from the start.I remember as all of Māoridom remembers your strength in driving this initiative as well as other Māori initiatives. That was your role Māui in the past I acknowledge you. To you who are listening I greet you. It is a great honour to support stand and to speak on this matter today and therefore I say greetings greetings one all.]It's an honour and a privilege to speak in this third reading. For myself as a descendant of Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga it is without doubt a privilege and an honour. Some people might think it's not right for someone like me to speak given the mahi and what happened with my ancestors but I've always said to a number of Moriori who I grew up with—some of the Solomon whānau in Māngere—that I couldn't be held responsible for the acts of some of our tīpuna and some of our ancestors as a lot of people would argue today perhaps with regards to what their ancestors did to Māori. But I certainly have an opportunity to get and be part of the redress and that's what today's all about. I have a part to play in terms of the justice side the humanity side and that's what third readings are all about.So when I did tell some of my Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga whanaunga that I would be having a kōrero on the bill they were a bit worried. But I'm certainly not because the Moriori story is one of the most fascinating stories as the previous speaker Joseph Mooney said—well said too. One of the most wonderful stories in terms of this country's history and in fact in terms of world history and the peace that has been exhibited by our people down there—and I say our people" because that's how I see things in terms of Moriori. It's something for all of this country to be proud of. Ironic really that we had such a peaceful resistance in that area and in a different area in Taranaki we also believe it or not had huge peacemakers and resistance from tohunga like Te Whiti and Tohu. So it's ironic that we celebrate and support our Moriori history and at the same time remember what happened with our Taranaki tīpuna.I'll never forget travelling to the Chatham Islands for the first time in 2018 when we honoured the passing of the last Māori Battalion officer Alfred "Bunty" Preece who was 96. Those were the first military honours that were ever accorded to people on the island and it was a wonderful trip—first time I'd ever been there. I took my whānau down there with Minister Ron Mark at the time. Joseph Mooney was talking about the wairua and the spirit of that place. It very much is a special place isn't it? You felt the wairua. We felt it all and we got it from Bunty Preece's tangi who was a former mayor and his son Alfie Preece Junior was also a mayor. We felt the wairua there the support and the peacefulness from a people who have been so ravaged by the Crown. Their story like the Māori story in terms of what has happened is something to behold. Left landless; basically at times mutilated through the years.So it's appropriate that I salute the negotiators particularly Māui Solomon who's fought for his people and fought the fight for his people of the Chathams the Moriori. But the other side of Māui is he's fought the fight for Māori people. He's fought for a lot of groups. He's been a long-time legal person. These are the types of people who will work in our world who can work with everyone. I mihi to him for his kaha in terms of fighting for Moriori people and the other negotiators who were involved who the Minister mentioned today.The Moriori history is so fascinating because not only do we talk about the peaceful resistance the wairua of the people but we're talking about a group of people who've been used and abused by everyone—politicians historians—when they talk about history. There was a whole divide and rule strategy that not just the Crown embarked on; too many of our own people embarked on: Māori Pākehā historians politicians. We all heard the type of kōrero that said "Oh you Māoris weren't the first here. The Morioris were the first here and you murdered everyone. Really you're not the tangata whenua; the Morioris are." We've heard those types of stories for ever and a day. We heard them when we were at primary school and we heard them for so many years. It wasn't funny and it took away so much in terms of that unique Moriori history. You know we should not have bought in to the nonsense that was being pushed out by some ill-informed historians. We had Don Brash going on about it about a couple of years ago. It's just ridiculous and it took away the fact that what happened was sad and what happened was part of history in terms of Māori going down there and invading and taking over a whole group of people and enslaving them. It took away their rights. It took away the way the Crown treated them. It took so much away and we bought into all that nonsense. As someone who worked on radio and who worked on TV through the years I got so sick and tired of the continual racist kōrero that we kept hearing about Māori murdering the Moriori and Moriori being the first here. We're way past that. As a Government and as a Parliament we're way past that and I salute the previous Minister Minister Christopher Finlayson who took this up. It's good that in the House we haven't bought into those arguments about who was first here or who wasn't first here. We just focus in on the compensation and the support that the Moriori have deserved and I thank everyone for that because this has been such a rich history.What I'm looking forward to is how we go forward now. How is that Moriori history going to be supported and converted in the 2020s? What's the next move for Māui Solomon and his team? You see $18 million can never buy justice. The Treaty settlements process as acknowledged by most Treaty Ministers does not deliver full justice for the different groups—for Māori for Moriori—so how is Morioritanga going to play out in the 2020s? It's going to be fascinating to watch how these young groups come through from Wharekauri and to see what type of contribution they will make to New Zealand society.Being in Parliament gives one the opportunity to salute the mahi that's been done by people like Māui Solomon who's been doing this since the mid-1980s. It gives us a time to remember the sad tragedies that they went through in terms of Wharekauri but it also gives us the opportunity to celebrate the mana the strength the kaha of a people who have risen again and I mihi to them one more time and thank them for their contribution. Congratulations this is your day. Mihi nui ki a koutou tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa."