Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. E ngā mana e ngā reo rau rangatira mā o Tūhoe Maungapōhatu ngā uri o Rua Kēnana tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Kua tae ki te wā kia unuhia te hara kai runga i a Rua kia whakahokia tōna mana me tōna ingoa rangatira ki a ia me ana uri.[Greetings Mr Speaker. To the leaders the spokespeople the chiefs of Tūhoe Maungapōhatu the descendents of Rua Kēnana greetings greetings to us all. The time has arrived to pardon the crime that sits on Rua to return his prestige and his chiefly name to him and his descendants.]I repeat those words of Nika Rua who is the spokesperson for Ngā Toenga o Ngā Tamariki a Iharaira me Ngā Uri o Maungapōhatu Charitable Trust. I repeat those words because those words were spoken today as the whānau of Te Urewera of Tūhoe came to this place this Parliament seeking—my mate Willie called it mana restoration but from our perspective it was seeking justice seeking justice for your tūpuna because there was a miscarriage of justice.I want to thank my colleague Shane Reti for outlining the whole historic interface with Government in terms of this injustice. Now the definition of a miscarriage of justice is that there's a conviction of an innocent person and obviously this bill is about Rua Kēnana but I also want to acknowledge that your women were raped that some of your future leaders were killed and that many of your tūpuna were imprisoned criminalised through a deliberate act of the Crown. They did that via the police as their agent and so they abused their power. It was institutional abuse and it was deliberate.So what this bill says—and it is part of our truth and reconciliation process that we are now being honest about some of the things that have happened in our country through colonisation and we confront the consequences of that colonial history every day in terms of institutional racism and the ongoing effects on our people right across the motu. So I want to acknowledge that this bill has happened because of you the people from Te Urewera. We wouldn't have done it ourselves. We needed you to use your voices through the processes the Waitangi Tribunal process through your commitment to clearing the name of your tupuna.That's what I want to acknowledge that resolute commitment to historic abuses of our people. We need to tell these stories and so through your acts we now provide I believe content for our books that we need to teach our kids. We need to remember these histories because they are relevant today and they're relevant for all New Zealanders. We have issues of racism in our country and when you think about where we've come from of course we are going to have continued issues of racism. It is only through telling these truths that I believe we can move forward in partnership and actually realise Te Tiriti o Waitangi because that's what I also think this bill signifies—that we now have a capacity within this Parliament to acknowledge those historical wrongs and through pieces of legislation like this to correct them which puts us on a pathway a very positive pathway going forward.So to all our rangatahi here this is a historic day for you. I like you lament all those tūpuna that have passed but I know that they are here with us because we are them. We are the mokopuna of our tūpuna who started these journeys. So for the whānau of Rua Kēnana I hope that you find peace and I hope that with what will happen on Saturday with the Governor-General actually coming for the first time to sign a bill that assents to this pardon you feel a sense of satisfaction about where we are as a country. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa.