Jackson Willie; Rurawhe AdrianHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Broadcasting and Media): E mihi ana ki a koe e te whanaunga Rawiri mō tō kōrero rerekē ataahua engari e mihi nui ki koe.[I acknowledge you my relative Rawiri for your different speech beautiful but I acknowledge you.]You started off so beautifully dear brother—a bit negative after that but Rawiri talked kōrero and I mihi to you for your courage over the last year or so.Can I also support the mihis to you too Mr Speaker in terms of your mahi in the last year or so. You haven't been particularly nice to me but—Hon Kelvin Davis: It's not all about you. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: It's not about me as Kelvin says. Engari kei te tino whakahīhī mātou tō mātou kāhui Māori ka uru koe ki tērā tūranga he mihi nui ki koe.[But we are very proud our Māori caucus that you have entered that role. Big congratulations to you.]Mr Speaker as you would have heard Kelvin Davis stole my speech as the deputy leader but I was thinking that I came into the Labour Party in 2017. It wasn't a very good welcome actually if I'm being honest. I think there was a 400-strong petition or something and it was Andrew Little's fault! But anyway we're not going there. Rawiri Waititi: Come to our Aotearoa hou Willie. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Anyway we won't go to the Māori Party either. Let's just get back to the kaupapa. Hon Kelvin Davis: Good idea. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Yes. I mentioned 2017 not because of what I got from the Labour Party but because I remembered while listening to Rawiri Waititi speak what the Māori Party got in terms of that targeted National Government Budget of 2017 which was $120 million. That was really good and I'm being really serious here because they only had two members and they did their best: $120 million in targeted funding—exceptional. It was actually more than from a lot of previous Governments.But when you compare that with respect to what our Māori caucus has got over the last three years which was $1 billion at every Budget over the last three years you can see the investment the Labour Party has been putting into Māori. It's been huge right across Te Ao Māori. If we look at Whānau Ora there's been a 120 percent increase in funding. I want to thank Peeni Henare for his mahi there and I want to thank our Whānau Ora providers who did some magnificent work during COVID—just fabulous. It's a shame most of them joined the Māori Party but I suppose it was really hard because the head of Whānau Ora is the head of the Māori Party. But they did some terrific work during that time and well done to our people eh on the ground.Rawiri Waititi: Yes magnificent.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: No seriously during COVID magnificent—just got to get them to join the right party Rawiri Waititi. We had $90 million going to Māori broadcasting. They gave our people that iwi radio Whakaatea Māori—it gives them an opportunity. It gives them an opportunity to get our reo out to get our stories out—fantastic. And while I'm talking about broadcasting I should say that it's been an honour being the broadcasting Minister and to get $25 million out to National Radio was giving them an opportunity to get our new national radio board TVNZ board and it's fantastic to get the digital bargaining bill out today. It's a shame that our friend Melissa Lee and the National Party are so confused and that they don't want to back the little guy and make the big global players pay for the news. It was very sad to hear them talking today but kei te pai—we'll support them.In Māori business we have a procurement programme worth about $1 billion. We tried to get it through between 2017 and 2020 but Kelvin Davis' relations in New Zealand First have got a few hang-ups you know? So we couldn't get our procurement programme through because they thought Māori shouldn't be a priority.If you add the extra funding that Kelvin's got in kōhanga reo for te reo Māori and we've had Māori trade trainees—it's been fantastic. We have Poutama Rangatahi and Mana in Mahi looking after our young people and Te Matatini funding of $32 million which Rawiri Waititi assures me that he got. I never saw him at the negotiating table. I never saw him there but he assures me it was all because of him.I want to thank Kiritapu Allan for her advocacy in that area and also Willow-Jean Prime particularly. They've been our main Ministers. But as we all know that pūtea means so much for our people so congratulations to all of us in terms of that pūtea.When we look at a kaupapa like Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga a Māori housing strategy that's been set up and run by people like Willie Te Aho and Annette Wehi—fantastic—and Jamie Tuuta and supported by our housing Minister Megan Woods it's the first by Māori for Māori housing strategy from any Government. It's just fantastic.I want to say thank you to Nanaia Mahuta for the local Māori seats. That was a huge win for us. It gave our people an opportunity to actually get on councils. They can't get on councils because people won't vote for our people. I want to thank the tuahine for her mahi in that area. It's been a tough time for her but if you talk about democracy—well that's democracy at work.The other kaupapa is the Māori Health Authority. Who would have thought that from a mainstream party we would have got a Māori Health Authority? And of course who would believe that this country could celebrate a Māori day—Matariki. It's magnificent and it's an example of how we can all come together for one kaupapa.I mention all these kaupapa because as Kelvin Davis rightly said and as we know in the House they're all at risk. Even our Matariki holiday—I fear we'll lose that. It's all at risk from the National Party but I think they know better. But David Seymour has a lot to answer for. You see he won't support the kaupapa that we talk about. He'll kill our Māori Health Authority. He'll get rid of Māori seats on councils. He'll dismantle not just Māori things but the ministries of women's affairs ethnic affairs Pacific affairs. It's shocking what he's going to do and yet he makes out he's this huge expert in terms of indigenous rights. Well I can't remember him being a lawyer at the Supreme Court or the Privy Council but he seems to know more about Māori indigenous rights than every High Court judge Supreme Court judge or Privy Council judge who has supported Māori indigenous rights since 1987. As well as that Mr Seymour thinks he knows more about indigenous rights than every National Prime Minister and Labour Prime Minister. Think about that: David Lange Geoffrey Palmer Jim Bolger Jenny Shipley Mike Moore Helen Clark John Key Bill English Jacinda Ardern and our wonderful Prime Minister Chris Hipkins along with judges like Dame Sian Elias our current Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann and Lord Cooke who along with his fellow judges Sir Ivor Richardson Summers Casey and Bisson in 1987 talked about partnership. Are you listening David Seymour? Oh he's just cleverer than all of them. They made it clear that partnership is an integral part of the Treaty and that Māori have special rights. But no not according to Mr Seymour and sadly his members of the ACT Party. We hear them here in the House every week: Why have Māoris got this?" I'm talking about this because this is important. They are always talking about Māori having special privileges—"Māori apartheid"—and asking "Is there separatism?" So for the record for the members in ACT Māori do have rights that have been legitimised by the courts of this country. They are a separate set of rights because they recognise Māori are the indigenous people of this country and indigenous people have indigenous rights. This has been recognised by the United Nations. Those rights recognise the horrors that indigenous people have gone through—that's what it's about. That's what Mr Seymour wants to change. He wants to bring us back sad impressions of Don Brash yet with all these special privileges. Do Māori have great health statistics education statistics or employment statistics? They're all bad. They're all bad but they're getting better under this Government. We're putting frameworks in place and I want to say I'm so proud that this is a Government who has been so courageous and passionate in terms of outlining and supporting the kaupapa with regard to Māori. It gave me faith. In my lifetime I never thought a mainstream party would embrace some of these kaupapa. I was with the Māori Party. I was in Mana Motuhake. I led Mana Motuhake before the Māori Party even existed. We talked about these issues then the Māori Party talked about these issues and now Labour is—Hon Grant Robertson: We've done it. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: We've done it and we want to go forward working with the Greens and perhaps the whanaungas in the Māori Party. I think that there's a lot of hope that New Zealanders should be looking at. Don't worry about all this division rubbish; the division is only coming from one side. We need to embrace the values and the principles of the Labour Party and the principles of Matariki. It was wonderful watching New Zealanders engage and embrace Matariki—wonderful. Pākehā people who don't know the reo are loving the language. We love the Labour Party. To all our people out there don't forget to support to support us on 14 October. Kia ora.SPEAKER: I understand this is a split call."