Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): I've never heard so much rubbish in my life. I just want to just make mention of your catch phrase Let's take our country back". I'll tell you what if that was a Māori Party catch phrase for a campaign heading into any election—I'll tell you what—there'd be hell to pay eh. "Let's take our country back"; let's take Aotearoa back. Yeah.Anyway this bill here is another form of a fishing expedition on our people. Let's understand—let's just understand where this has come from. In this last election I have never seen so much social theory being used by the other side of the House than I have ever in any political election in Aotearoa—never. Now social theory was used by Hitler. Social theory has been used by Trump to create moral panic and fear in people. Yes elderly Pākehā deserve to retire with dignity and in peace but to allow this type of rhetoric to run rampant across the country and to scare people—people who have never ever met with gangs people who have never ever seen a gang people who have never ever probably seen a patch. But to see it on TV built up by the media in places like Ōpōtiki places like Tokoroa places like Whakatāne—none of them have ever been there to talk to those particular gang members or those communities. I'll tell you that right now. If this Government has taught us anything it is that not every criminal is a gang member but not every gang member is a criminal.But I want to make mention—during COVID-19 they played their part. I visited gang pads I was there for the vaccination—they did their bit. So when you say that it's all bad I don't think so. I was reminded by my colleague here who talked about how the gangs were actually the first ones to bring lunches into schools in Huntly—the Huksters.Mark Cameron: And screwdrivers.RAWIRI WAITITI: So all of those things—oh don't worry I went to a Pākehā school and it wasn't gang members bringing screwdrivers into that school.Let's get reality here—let's get reality here. This is going to disproportionately affect Māori. We are already the highest incarcerated peoples in this country: 50 percent of the male prison population are Māori 64 percent of the female prison population are Māori. Actually you're wasting so much resource on this. There are 5.1 million people in this country yet there are according to your statistics 8000 gang members. What a waste of resource. That's 0.1 percent of the population. Let's work it out: 0.1 percent of the population that you're focusing on here. Of the whānau in gangs 80 percent to 90 percent have come out of State care. You created them—sorry Mr. Speaker not you. The Government created them with their military schools with their board schools and with their State theft of our tamariki. This is the truth; and this is where gangs have come from.The only time Māori received any special treatment in the justice system is when we've been profiled. We are being profiled—because the majority of people in gangs are Māori. Associates—am I an associate? I have whānau in gangs. Am I an associate? Am I going to be affected by this bill? Is it because I don't wear a patch? Do whānau who have members in gangs—you're going to just charge into their houses? They have tamariki; they have pakeke. This is how absurd this particular legislation is. And you've already committed them to a crime before they've even committed a crime—for wearing a patch. It's absurd. It's a waste of resource. And what—you're going to rely on an under-resourced police department? Already under resourced and now you want them to go around and chase people for wearing different clothes.This didn't work in America—this didn't work in America—or in Aussie. They just moved from one region to another—they've banned gang patches. And then I heard the Minister today say "I wish I could do that here. I wish they could relocate to another country and leave us alone." E kī rā if the majority are Māori you've got the manuhiri kicking tangata whenua out.This Government needs to wake up. This Government needs to wake up. This is not about gang patches. Let's look at the ultimate cause. The greatest violence you can inflict on anybody is poverty—that's the ultimate cause; stop looking at proximate causes. We will not be supporting this bill to the House. Kia ora tātou."