Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) (remote): Tēnā koe e te Pīka otirā tēnā tātou katoa. Tēnā tātou i te āhuatanga o ō tātou mate. Ngā mate huhua o te wā otirā koutou i runga i te rāngai rangatira te rāngai atua ki tua o paerangi. Haere whatungaro atu rā. Nei rā te mihi ki a mana whenua Te Ati Awa Ngāti Toa Rangatira Taranaki Whānui tēnei te mihi aroha ki a koutou. Ko te raukura ka mau ki te ringa ko te aroha ka mau ki te ngākau.[Greetings Mr Speaker and greetings one and all. I acknowledge those who have passed. The many dead of this time including of chiefly status and the company of ancestors beyond the horizon. May you rest in peace. I acknowledge those who have authority over this land Te Ati Awa Ngāti Toa Rangatira and Taranaki Whānui this is my compassionate greeting to you. When the feather plume is held in the hand love and compassion resides in the heart.]Te Paati Māori support this motion and all the services that have been acknowledged today. We would like to add Ngā Wātene Māori—our Māori wardens—to the motion as we acknowledge all the services that have been part of this ordeal. I speak as the co-leader of Te Paati Māori and as the MP for Waiariki.I have deep feelings of sadness and loss for the hurt caused by successive Governments in this country that have subjugated us to generations of reckless laws that have continuously oppressed us as a people—laws still being passed in this very House today. One of the key objectives of the formation of this Parliament was to kill the beastly communism" of Māori—a quote made by a past Minister of this House Christopher William Richmond.What I saw yesterday on the grounds of Parliament was the manifestation of that colonial vision: the disconnection from our Māoritanga; the alienation from our whenua our hapū our maunga our awa our language—our reo; the dysfunction within our communities; the intergenerational trauma; the years of never being heard. The whakapapa of this can only be traced back to colonisation. Colonisation has turned our worlds upside down and has rendered parts of the culture unrecognisable. It continues to divide us today because it feasts on our trauma thus forcing us to disregard the very essence of who we are and who we once were.When I hear the stories of my tīpuna I hear leadership and I hear courage. I close my eyes and I imagine our people as the providers of sustenance that feed our wairua our tinana our hinengaro; leaders that walked and talked with kotahitanga; I see respect and responsibility; I see sacrifice for the collective; and I hear the projectors of our indigenous truth through a language that was born of this land and our mātauranga that was born of the skies; and I see fierce protection of our honour and our mana. All of this all at once and never at the desecration of the mana of others. E te iwi Māori kia mōhio mai koutou [To Māori please be aware] when these mandates have lifted we will still be left here fighting against the racist system that is still designed to kill our "beastly communism". We will still be faced with Māori health inequities Māori education disparities Māori being the highest incarcerated peoples in the world. Māori will still make up 50 percent of the social housing waiting list and 67 percent of the tamariki in State care. We will still be over half of the people in emergency and transitional housing. And the Māori unemployment rate will still double that of non-Māori. That is the true plight that we as tangata whenua have been fighting for near on 200 years and we will continue to fight once the mandates have been lifted.I speak to you now as a son a brother a mokopuna a whanaunga and as a father. The threats the abuse and the hate towards us members of this House is absolutely unacceptable and this is not who we are. The threats the abuse the hate and the belittling of our Prime Minister who is also a daughter a mokopuna and a mummy to a beautiful little girl brings a sense of sadness to my heart.E te Pirimia kei te aroha atu ki a koe me tō whānau me tō tamāhine hoki. Kia kauparetia Te Atua i ngā whakawainga i ngā whiunga a te ao a te kikokiko a Te Rēwera a te upoko ariki a te kiriweti me te poro hae. Kia tau iho ngā manaakitangi a Ihoa ora o ngā mano i runga i a koe me tō whānau ā i runga i a tātou katoa. [To the Prime Minister I feel compassion for you and your family and your daughter as well. May God protect you from weapons from worldly insults from the temptations of the world the flesh and the devil from inflated egos the hot-tempered and jealous ones. May the blessings of the Lord God Almighty be upon you and your family upon all of us.]E te iwi Māori [To Māori] it is time for us to heal. It is time for us to dig deep into our ngākau to show the world who we truly are. We are an honourable people. We are tangata whenua. We are the people of this land and it is our responsibility to ensure everyone is safe. Kia ora tātou."