Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā huri noa te whare nei he mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. Ā tēnei te mihi o te whanauka o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa e te whānau o Tonga malo e lelei. [Greetings Mr Speaker and all in the House greetings to you all. I greet you as a relative of the Pacific Islands; to those of you from Tonga malo e lele.] It's really hard trying to understand where this Labour-led coalition is going with their Māori strategy taking into account that the Māori voters returned to Labour in droves at the last election. Now if we look at it out in Flax-rootsville" what we actually see there is that they are bitterly disappointed in what has been served up to date. Even when we look at respected leaders in Māoridom like Sir Toby Curtis Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi Dame Tariana Turia they are all becoming very very despondent with this Labour-led coalition and that is more about—when we look at the history they have more Māori in Cabinet on that side of the House than ever in the history of this particular Parliament.I think one thing that really scares them is when they hear things like "We have to legislate for the majority of people. We don't live in our world around a measly targeted Budget." So when we look at that what that actually refers to is that it was that Government that actually slashed the Māori budgets and that is why it was such a measly Māori budget itself. And why did Labour slash that particular budget? One of the things that's really important here is that it was very much around this policy of assimilation because what they've done is they've taken a lot of the targeted Māori funding and put it into the general budget. And they've changed the narrative also. The narrative when we were in Government was "What's good for Māori is good for New Zealand." Here they've turned it completely around and they've got now "What's good for New Zealand is good for Māori." The reason why this particular coalition Government—Labour particularly—do not want to see successful Māori is because they want to make them dependent on the State. They want to make them dependent on the State. So why would Labour want to reduce their voters by working for Māori success? Why would they want to do that? Well they don't want to do that because successful Māori means less Labour voters. That's how it is. I'm sure that when we look at this targeted funding it's both reduced and assimilated and that's part of the grand plan to keep Māori dependent on the welfare State.Hon Chris Hipkins: Say hello to Don Brash.NUK KORAKO: Listen to them. Now they bring up Don Brash absolutely. But look at you. Have a good look at yourself. National was always the party of tino rangatiratanga and the situation there is that—what is tino rangatiratanga? It's an expression of enterprise. It's an expression of self-responsibility and hard work and to do that to get out of that and to have tino rangatiratanga these people cross to the other side. These parties of the coalition don't want to see that whereas on this side we want to see independence from welfare and State handouts. We want to see independence from broken families lack of housing; independence so that they can utilise their own land. And what have they done? They've taken away—they've thrown away Te Ture Whenua Māori Act reform. They called it the dirty rotten filthy Te Ture Whenua Māori Act and saying that just sums up the disdain for Māori financial and economic independence. In their own words they believe if you're actually economically independent as Māori well that's dirty rotten and filthy just like they said around Te Ture Whenua Māori Act.At the end of the day this particular tino rangatiratanga—that's what we built on when you look at Whānau Ora when you look at those education numbers and when you look at the fact that we put more money into Te Reo Māori."