Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Associate Minister for Māori Development): Tuatahi e ngā mōrehu o ngā manu e rua ki a koutou ko ngā tātarakihi o Parihaka tēnei te mihi ki a koutou i tae mai nei i tēnei wā i whakarangatira i a mātou. Ko tēnei te kaupapa tino whakahirahira mō Te Ao Māori. Tēnei te tino mihi. Ā tēnā koutou ā tēnā koutou ā tēnā anō tātou katoa.[Firstly to the living remnants of the two leaders the present-day cicadas of Parihaka I acknowledge you all who have arrived at this time to honour us. This is the most important thing in the Māori World. My sincerest thanks. Thank you thank you thank you again one and all.]First up I do think it's appropriate that we congratulate former Ministers—the former Minister of the Crown of Māori Development Te Ururoa Flavell who did a terrific job in advancing this kaupapa for his whānau. He married into the whānau and they became his whānau and he's done a great job. Of course former Minister Chris Finlayson will no doubt go down as one of the finest Treaty Ministers.November 5 is a historic date and one of the dates that we'll mark in the New Zealand calendar and should be for ever remembered. On a personal note it remains a date that will be part of my life for ever and a day. On 5 November my father died. On 5 November one of my daughters was born. On 5 November one of the sons of Parihaka my very close friend Te Kauhoe Wano took his life. So 5 November is a hugely important day for many of us. Te Kauhoe was one of my dear friends brothers and as I said a son of Parihaka. We will never forget the tangi that the people of Parihaka held for our brother who took his life on that day. That will always remain one of the saddest days for Parihaka people and for many of the whānau and friends in Tāmaki Makaurau.Of course 5 November is the day that the troops marched into Parihaka and atrocities occurred. One of the stories that will always remain—and I know we spoke about it when I was on radio and TV—is the women's story. It is a story that was hidden in many ways as many of our kuia know and not expressed because the stories of Tohu and Te Whiti—and I acknowledge our whanaunga here and the mokopunas of the great tipuna—were always the stories that were articulated. I heard the cries of some of our women from Parihaka and Taranaki particularly the trust chairwoman Puna Wano-Bryant. Kei konei a Puna? Kao? Kei te pai.[Is Puna here? No? That's ok.]But her kōrero resonated I think with so many of our people and so many of our women who had undergone atrocities. Puna cried when she described what happened to her tipuna especially the women. How women were raped and assaulted by Crown troops—she said Those women were our mothers and our grandmothers from here and the violation of whakapapa happened here in Parihaka." That's what she said at the ceremony that members of the House attended. I was sad that I did not attend to support but I know there were members from both side of the House who attended who heard what she had to say. I thought she was very brave very courageous and she inspired so many of our women—not just Māori women; women all around the country. The women and the rape of the women and their story she said were silenced because of the shame that goes along with the act. Puna cried when she finished telling her story and it rained at almost the same time that Puna told this story about our wāhine our mana wāhine of Parihaka. It is a story I think that should resonate for all New Zealanders and I mihi to her. Tuku me mihi ki a koe Puna mō tō kaha me tō māia ki te kōkiri i te kaupapa tō kōrero.[Send I must acknowledge you Puna for your strength and courage to move this matter forward your words.]I also want to speak today about something that came out of the select committee process in terms of the names and the protection of the Parihaka name. For Māori our names have been plagiarised misused; our waiata has been plagiarised our hakas have been plagiarised for years and years and years. So I think it's wonderful that Parihaka have been able to exercise some protection over this and around this. If you look on TV—I remember some years ago when we had a big argument with the Spice Girls. Everybody thought it was great that the Spice Girls were doing the haka; never mind that they were doing it all wrong and bungling up the language. I think that the protection that we've come to in terms of Parihaka—protection of name is just so important because it should be looked at as a template in terms of protection of names waiatas hakas and things that we hold dear to us at all times.Of course everyone likes to get pretty trendy with Parihaka now. You can go to Parihaka you see and do a speech and then put it online and you know make yourself pretty popular—as our whanaungas know. So I mihi to our whānau who have said that we must be careful with the Parihaka brand because it's something that can be misused and used in the wrong area—that is the case with lots of things in terms of Te Ao Māori. So intellectual property rights is an area that we are still traversing and something that we still have to get right in terms of tikanga Māori.Tikanga Māori is everything—and don't we know that. That's some of the kōrero that we are now traversing with Ihumātao and they're about to go through a whole tikanga process over the next two days. But I think if they want to look at how we traverse tikanga Māori they need to look at some of the things that have come out of this agreement with Parihaka.Madam Speaker I want to—if I can indulge you and the House—as I come to the end of this korero read something from this which talks about the aspirations of Parihaka and talks about the whole reconciliation process. So I'll read that if I may Madam Speaker. I just want to read this because I think these are some of the most beautiful words one could ever read or hear. This is about the commitment in terms of reconciliation present and future. It reads: "Listen for you have a role to fulfil it is a challenge left to you by your ancestors. Though you may be overwhelmed by your neighbour success will come a glow will be on the mountain skyline to be seen by all. Go out on open seas unsettled and surging seas to find [a] new and bountiful existence. This commitment has set sail on Tangaroa of limitless paths refraining from the arduous and boggy paths we once travelled allowing them to pass from this world. Violence scars while that shown care will be strong self-assured and confident. As an ant in the burrow as a juvenile cicada maturing in the earth to emerge into the open. Be surrounded with the cacophony of confidence lest you be confined to the shore pulled by tides swamped by waves of all that is heavy and harsh in this world. All my strength and my voice is guidance to this generation that you be the empowerer of both peoples. Your voice cannot be smothered by the authorities. Your voice cannot be silenced by the powerful nor the turbulent events of this land. Should your voice be abolished you will use tikanga to respond to the hatred overcoming it with kindness." Appropriate words I think to sum up the magic of Parihaka.He hōnore nui ki te tū i mua i a koutou koutou katoa tēnā koutou ā tēnā anō tātou katoa.[It is a great honour to stand before you all of you thank you greetings one and all.]"