Korako Nuk: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: General Debate[Sitting date: 01 April 2015. Volume:704;Page:2810. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. Huri noa i te Whare e mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa. I want to bring a bit of decorum back into the House particularly because I think we have had enough of Northland. What I would like to do is just bring it back to two things around Anzac Day and then also the effects of the announcements made today that National has announced.So first of all is Anzac Day. Anzac Day is a day of remembrance it is a day of thanksgiving and also this year it is acknowledgement of the 100 years since the battle of Gallipoli. I have been over there a number of times. I have been to the Gallipoli peninsula and to Çanakkale on the Dardanelles which links the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea. I have travelled through with many people to Chunuk Bair and to a number of those battle sites all the way through.I would like to bring it back now though particularly to Rāpaki the small ancestral settlement on Lyttelton Harbour. Every year in that ancestral community we celebrate Anzac Day first with a dawn ceremony and that has gone on for quite some time. The reason for that is that when the call-up came for World War I there were five who left from that small village of Rāpaki and only three came home. So in 1916 the Gallipoli wharf at Rāpaki was constructed as a memorial to those soldiers who never came home but also to those who did not just in Rāpaki but right across the spectrum of those tragic events of World War I.Every Anzac Day the old the middle-aged and the young from Rāpaki come down to the Gallipoli wharf and then at dawn we do our memorial celebrations. We go to the marae for breakfast and then after that we do a hīkoi of 6 kilometres from Rāpaki to Lyttelton. On the way we pick up a number of people who live in the various towns and villages en route to Lyttelton. To us that signifies that when our men went overseas there were no political affiliations; there was no race. What they did when they were there they did as New Zealanders. That is very significant for us as well the fact that that continues today. We are proud of the fact that in proportion to population there are more who went away and there are more who passed away and were killed over there compared to almost any other village town or city in New Zealand. We are very very proud of that. That is the first thing—the acknowledgment. I do acknowledge all of those on both sides of the House who today have spoken about the remembrance the thanksgiving and the commemorations that are to come.The next thing is I want to stay with Rāpaki because Rāpaki to me is a great example of how the National changes that have taken effect today are helping whānau and in particular Māori whānau to get ahead. When we look at HomeStart when we look at paid parental leave and when we look at ACC levies family tax credits and superannuation a cross-section of the people of that small village are affected. That to us is actually about having a hand up as opposed to a handout. That was the village of Ben Couch and so it is great that National can forge forward and be a party that does help all New Zealanders but in particular Māori. Kia ora.