Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Associate Minister for Māori Development): Tūhoe moumou kai moumou tangata ki te pō tēnā koutou; e ngā tamariki o te kohu tēnā koutou; tēnā koutou e ngā mokopuna o Rua Kēnana; tēnā koutou tēnā koutou ā tēnā anō tātou katoa. He hōnore nui ki te kōrero e pā ana ki tēnei kaupapa. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou i tēnei wā.[Tūhoe wasteful of food destroyers of mankind greetings to you; to the children of the mist greetings; greetings to the grandchildren of Rua Kēnana; greetings greetings and greetings to us all. It is a great honour to speak about this matter. I acknowledge you all at this time.]Can I say I enjoyed the pō'hiri this morning. Wonderful seeing so many from the haukāinga in terms of Tūhoe here. Normally we just have the flash Tūhoes in Wellington like Rawinia Higgins and Wena Tait and others. So it's really good to see the people from the coalface here to tautoko the kaupapa. I was going to say Tai Black too but he goes back and forth all the time and hopefully he'll get his boy right for the Blues this year. But anyway just adding to the kaupapa I tino tautoko our Minister Nanaia Mahuta who's done some wonderful mahi and our chair Rino Tirikatene. It's just fantastic seeing their work.I was asked by a rather ignorant person—sadly Māori—what this was all about this morning. I should reveal their name but I won't—I'm tempted. What was this all about given that Rua Kēnana only spent a year or so in jail and one or two people got killed? What was the big deal all about?" And of course that's been explained beautifully today by the various speakers. I had a think about that and in this short time I thought of two words to sum this kaupapa up: mana and tino rangatiratanga. A very famous Māori said to me—I told him I wouldn't reveal his name: Judge Joe Williams—that the most important tikanga is mana and the ultimate indignity is living without mana. Our people prize their dignity above everything. I think that's what this kaupapa is about. Why else would a group of people—sorry Joe—why else would an iwi pursue this kaupapa so vigilantly? So I congratulate people in the House.Ko te mea nui ko te mana koirā te kōrero a Joe tino tautoko tērā kōrero.[The main thing is the prestige; that is what Joe said. I strongly support that.]We've pursued it; you have pursued it for over 100 years—over 100 years. That's what this fight is about: restoring and restating the mana of Rua Kēnana. Congratulations for that. I know Minister Jones has said it's not about money. I know there's not a lot of kotahitanga about that but I think it's about everything—it's about everything but mana first and foremost is the overriding priority here.The second part of that is tino rangatiratanga. What is tino rangatiratanga? Surely it's the right to run our own show to do the business as Rua Kēnana was doing—as Rua Kēnana chose to do. He chose to make outrageous statements in those days: "Let the white man fight the white man's war." Again our prophets saying things years and years before other famous people said it like Muhammad Ali for instance in the 1960s when Ali was saying that type of kōrero. Rua wanted to do his own thing run his own show sell booze to his own people kei te pai. That's rangatiratanga that's tino rangatiratanga and that's something I tautoko and our people should tautoko.So in my short contribution today I think those two words describe the actions of the people who've taken this up and in many ways they are the blueprint for Māori going forward. What do we want as a nation in 2019 and 2020? We want our mana and we want our tino rangatiratanga. So I thank the great koroua Rua Kēnana. I thank Tūhoe for your persistence your commitment your contribution and it's an honour to speak on this bill today. Tēnā nō tātou katoa."