Lyndon Hūhana; Brownlee GerryHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): I te tekau mā whā ka ū te whakapono e iKi runga i Ōihi ka tū Te Mātenga e iKo te kupu tēnei kei te rangi te AtuaMe huri koutou me titiro ki reira e iKa huri te Māori ka titiro whakarunga e iKa huri Te Mātenga ka titiro whakararo e iKi te papa oneone ki Aotearoa eTaiapa rawa mai ki te pāraharaha e iKi te pātītī ki te rōria rino eKi te paraikete whero nāu e te Kāwana e iKua riro te whenua e tere rā ki te moana e i. [On the fourteenth faith is confirmedAt Ōihi Samuel Marsden standsThis is the word God is in heavenYou all must turn you must look thereThe Māori turns and looks upSamuel Marsden turns and looks downTo the earthy soil of AotearoaThe wide spaces are truly fenced offBy paddocks by iron shacklesBy the red blanket that is yours GovernorThe land is lost flee to the sea.]I te tekau mā whā" a waiata tawhito that commemorates the first sermon in Aotearoa delivered by Samuel Marsden—"Te Mātenga"—on Christmas Day 1814 in a place called Ōihi in the Bay of Islands. This waiata whakahē [song of opposition] was written a hundred years after that first sermon was delivered and reminds us of our colonial history. As our tūpuna looked to the heavens for guidance our land was taken by the Crown for the cost of a red blanket a hatchet or a Jew's harp. You see the hapū of Whangārei only retain 2 percent of our tribal estate today. Our people were left destitute within our own tribal rohe. This is our story. Ko Hūhana Lyndon taku ingoa. E ai ki te kōrero a Aperahama Taonui "Ehara ahau i te rīwai. E tū rangatira ana ahau ki runga i tōku tūrangawaewae." [My name is Hūhana Lyndon. According to the statement of Aperehama Taonui "I am not a potato. I nobly stand on my land where I belong."]I stand today with my rangatiratanga on my tūrangawaewae.Ahumairangi Tangitekeo Te Whanganui a Tara ki tōku rahi a Te Ātiawa Ngāti Toarangatira Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga—e mihi ana. He uri tēnei nō Kāwharu me taku tupuna a Te Haunga.[Tinakori Hill Mount Victoria Wellington Harbour my people of Te Ātiawa Ngāti Toarangatira the southern branch of Ngāti Raukawa I greet you. I am a descendant of Kāwharu and my ancestor Te Haunga.]My ancestor Te Haunga lived at Pāuatahanui. His rohe included Transmission Gully. Once upon a time Pāuatahanui was pristine. The waters were pure green and blue. The fish life was abundant. This is not the case today. I am here for people and planet.Parliament is a long way from where I grew up in Pipiwai Tūparehuia Ngāraratunua and Matangirau in the North. I wish to mihi to my tribes Ngātiwai Ngāti Hine Ngā Hapū o Whangārei Whangaroa hoki Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu ngā tini whanaunga [my many relations]. Thank you for nourishing me and nurturing me mai rā anō [since way back].I come to this House with te reo Māori as my patu pounamu and He Whakaputanga me Te Tiriti o Waitangi as my korowai. Kāhore ahau ki konei mō te hararei e tātou mā—I'm not here for a holiday; I'm here to do the mahi—to tohe and to tūtūki for Te Tai Tokerau. We've just finished a landmark Waitangi commemoration and on 12 February we remembered the largest signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi at Mangungu Hokianga. But lest we forget the intergenerational pollution of the Hokianga Harbour nō Hokianga ahau e kore e warewaretia. [I am from Hokianga and I will never forget that.]I reflect on He Whakaputanga the declaration of sovereignty made by our tūpuna to the world. Ko kore kore rawa Ngā Hapū o Ngāpuhi i tuku te mana rangatiratanga ki te Karauna. E kore rawa Ngā Hapū o Ngāpuhi e tuku tō tātou tino rangatiratanga ki te Kāwanatanga. Ka whaiwhai tonu mātou ake ake ake![The tribes of Ngāpuhi never ever ceded their noble authority to the Crown. The tribes of Ngāpuhi will never cede our sovereignty to the Government. We will continue to fight for ever and ever!]On Monday this week the marine and coastal area High Court hearings commenced in Whangārei for the Whangārei Harbour. It's outrageous to me that as the hapū of Whangārei we must stand before the High Court and plead our case to prove our connection and relationship to Whangārei Harbour since 1840. Meinga meinga? Nā wai i teka? Mā te ture Pākehā e mana ko wai ngā hapū whaipānga ki te moana o Whangārei? [Is that so? Whose is that lie? Is it really for Pākehā law to authorise who are the interested parties in Whangārei harbour?]The Crown has the audacity to assume they have mana moana over Whangārei Harbour? After stealing the lands off our people enabling intergenerational rape of the kaimoana and releasing tūtae into the harbour for decades now they think they can determine who has mana moana? Meinga meinga! [Is that so!] No! We will fight this process through the Waitangi Tribunal.Te Tiriti o Waitangi is not a partnership document. It provides a constitutional relationship between two sovereign nations. As Moana Jackson has shared "Treaties are not meant to be settled treaties are meant to be honoured." e tātou mā. Te Tiriti is our road map for mahi tahi [collaboration]. I come into this Whare as a kaimahi mō taku iwi [as a worker for my people] and acknowledge that mana rangatiratanga [sovereign authority] sits with our hapū and iwi. Te Iwi Māori are intergenerational. We remember our past as we walk forward to the future. We're always looking a hundred years ahead. Governments come and Governments go but like Tumutumuwhenua we are from the soil of this land.I am the eldest child of teenage parents and am fortunate to know three of my great-grandparents. Raised in the reo of my father despite my age I am youth adjacent. I'm a foundation mokopuna of Te Kōhanga Reo o Ngā Tau e Toru in Pipiwai. Ko Te Orewai te hapū ko Ngāti Hine te iwi. [Te Orewai is the hapū Ngāti Hine is the iwi.] Tihei mauri ora! My upbringing is not too dissimilar to many whānau. We moved house a lot for my dad's work and I attended seven schools in primary and secondary school. But we learnt to adapt. In our housing we had housing insecurity like many whānau—living at the Ngunguru caravan park and in State houses—but we had a good life. With whānau support and getting a good education my parents purchased their first home in Whangārei many years ago.We were raised with a life of discipline in academics and sports. Our hāhi was the tennis court and our school was the Collins Encyclopaedia set that my parents invested in when we lived in Lower Hutt. My parents were heavily involved in our school lives and this was backed up by strong granny support. I'm grateful to have my grandmother and her sister in the Whare today. We have four generations in our whānau. Tihei mauri ora to that!As the eldest of my whānau there are expectations and responsibilities. I am always mindful of my footsteps and my example to my siblings and those around me. Responsibility to the collective and paving the way for future generations is etched in my whakapapa. In entering Victoria University through provisional entrance as a 16-year-old old from the North I hit the books and joined Te Herenga Waka Kapa Haka Group and Ngāi Tauira Māori Students Association and I lived my best life with my metes. I wish to acknowledge Tama Potaka and Cushla Tangaere-Manuel my friends and colleagues of this House alumni of Te Herenga Waka. I recognise it's important for us to work across the Whare to meet the challenges for people and planet. I'm blessed to be a single mother of three teenage daughters. Mokopuna raised in 10 years of Te Paparahi o Te Raki Waitangi Tribunal hearings riding side-saddle with me across the North in events and hui. Like many in Aotearoa our whānau is not without its challenges but as the Ngātiwai whakatauki shares "Ahatia pukepuke te moana ka whakawhitia e Ngātiwai". ["Even though the ocean is rough Ngātiwai will traverse it."] To my tamāhine o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa I love you all very much. My professional life has set the scene for my entrance into this House having a diverse background in Māori public health: tobacco control in Māori providers the DHB and the Ministry of Health and in education as a director at Northtec. It was Ngāti Hine that gave me my first big break working for my iwi. I was appointed by my elders to the role of CEO of Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust. During my time we implemented our Billion Trees projects: 3200 hectares of second-rotation Pinus radiata and seeing our young people on the land planting 410 hectares of mānuka—tēnā koe matua Shane Jones. We grew our portfolio in horticulture too to 32 hectares of Zespri Gold and established industry-based training to get our people into orchard or packhouse and finally in an industry first for Aotearoa a research project in partnership with SCION to plan our indigenous forestry future underpinned by mātauranga o Ngāti Hine. I was then appointed as the first raukura mo te whare o Ngātiwai [chief executive officer of the Ngātiwai Board] the Ngātiwai Trust Board. My elders of Ngātiwai trusted me to set a new operational direction and lead our iwi into the future. As the raukura I led our team with passion and energy. I gave my all. I love and appreciate the opportunity to serve our people across Te Ākau Roa o Ngātiwai. Tēnā koutou e tōku iwi o Ngāti Wai. While speaking about my iwi may I pause and reflect on Cyclone Gabrielle remembering it was this time last year when the big one hit us. In Tai Tokerau we had communities without water internet and electricity and with roads blocked for days. We aren't like Te Tairāwhiti and Te Matau-a-Māui but a year on the people of Pipiwai in the North still don't have fresh drinking water from Te Awa o Hikurangi. The infrastructure breakages are still "a work in progress". But what the cyclone and earlier COVID lockdowns did show was that hapū iwi and marae can mobilise. Drawing on supply chains established during COVID we worked to get support to those most in need. As Ngātiwai Ngāti Hine and Ngā Hapū o Whangārei we mobilised a regional roll-out connecting through our whakapapa. With manaaki at the centre of our mahi we went out to support the community. There are many learnings from the emergency response and earlier COVID19. Primarily Māori need to be resourced decision-makers and let us get on with the mahi. I've spent many years of my career focused on training and development across sectors succession on our marae and in our hapū to grow our team. This team includes tangata whaikaha [disabled community] our rainbow community tangata moana [Pasifika community] immigrants and refugees because together through mahi tahi we can break down the inequalities that exist for so many communities in Aotearoa.Diane Ruwhiu described the Māori economy as a "sleeping and now waking taniwha". Now much is made of this taniwha economy yet for all the power and pizazz of the catchy name the economic taniwha remains leashed by the colonial shackles. This is not to undermine the massive strides that our collective Māori and private business interests have achieved and the many breakthroughs to grow the Māori economy but te pani me te rawa kore [bereavement and poverty] still exists. Systems change is required with a focus on the wider determinants of health social and environmental wellbeing that takes into account our colonial history.Decision makers need a new framework underpinned by Te Tiriti o Waitangi that ensures tangible economic gains and provides social cultural health and taiao benefits to hapū and iwi. You see Māori are natural greenies. We are kaitiaki. We are concerned for the health and wellbeing of our whenua our moana and our waterways because we are interconnected with the taiao.May I speak to waimāori waipara and wai tūtae [fresh water waste water and sewage]. We have an issue with our piping we have old infrastructure that was exposed during Cyclone Gabrielle. Wellington and Tāmaki-makau-rau you've been put on notice. Rural New Zealand you've been put on notice. This is not a new issue. Te mana o te wai is supremely important in our next steps with urgent planning needed and investment for the infrastructure rural and urban New Zealand needs. What is our plan to address these important issues? Te Rōpū Kākāriki I salute you. You embedded Te Tiriti o Waitangi in your party's constitution and move as a waka hourua: tangata Tiriti tangata whenua. As the "Te Tiriti Party" in Parliament I am proud to be a part of our team and I thank the 330000 voters that brought into Parliament the largest ever Greens caucus in history. I wish to mihi to the great Green Party co-leaders: first Rod Donald and Jeanette Fitzsimons then Russel Norman and the amazing Metiria Turei and to our pou James Shaw and Marama Davidson. E James he hautupua koe mō te taiao. Tēnā koe e te rangatira. [James you are an esteemed luminary for the environment. Thank you noble leader.]I thank our party members and our whānau for supporting my campaign for the Te Tai Tokerau electorate. This was no easy task because the Te Tai Tokerau electorate stretches five hours just one way. Can I acknowledge Kelvin Davis in his retirement but also for his work as a Minister and MP for Te Tai Tokerau. My whaea Mariameno Kapa-Kingi—first wahine to win the Te Tai Tokerau electorate—tēnā koe.To Ministers of the Government and MPs who live and hail from the North may we work hard together for Tai Tokerau and protect our whanaungatanga as we venture forth in this next term. Hei whakakapi waka kōrero [To conclude my statements] our tupuna Kawiti is the first name on Te Tiriti and he also signed He Whakaputanga. In his prophecy after the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka in 1846 he referred to the bite of the sandfly—the namu—"Waiho kia kakati te namu i te whārangi o te pukapuka ko reira ka tahuri atu ai."—"Wait until the sandfly nips at the pages of the book and at that time you must act." Well Aotearoa it's time to get out the insect repellent because we have a big namu trying to change the words of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. I along with my colleagues will stand and fight for our papa pounamu [greenstone floor] Te Tiriti o Waitangi me He Whakaputanga with you in this House and out in our communities and on our marae. I began my kauwhau with Aperahama Taonui and I will end my kauwhau with Aperahama Taonui. I dedicate this to Marama Davidson: "Ka whakarongo ake au ki te tangi o te manu nei te pītongatonga. Tōnā tangi 'Patotoi patotoi patotoi'." [I listen to the cry of the pītongatonga bird. It cries "Patotoi patotoi patotoi".] E Marama ka patotoi ōu ngutu ki te tohe mō Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Kāhore anō nei kia tatū te mana motuhake o Ngāpuhi o Aotearoa whānui tonu—Marama your lips will be parched fighting for Te Tiriti o Waitangi as Ngāpuhi and Aotearoa are still waiting for this House to truly recognise te tino rangatiratanga o te Iwi Māori. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa.[Applause hongi and harirū]Waiata—"Te Whare e Tū Nei"SPEAKER: To make her maiden statement to Parliament I call on Darleen Tana."