Tuiono Teanau; Mallard TrevorTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Atiu Tumu e Atiu Tumu e. E rere taku manu kota'a. Kua pāngia ta'au takurua. E 'apai i te karere o te papa kainga. Te rongo o taku tiputa. Me kura te rangi i te a'ia'i. Ka ma'ara au ia koe.E te mana whenua Te Āti Awa kei te mihi ka tika. Kei te tautoko katoa au i ngā mihi kua mihia tēnā koutou katoa. Rātou ki a rātou rātou anō ki Ōtautahi e okioki ana i tēnei wā. Tātou ki a tātou e karapinepine ana ki raro i te whakaruruhou o tēnei o ngā Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. Ko wai tēnei e tū ake nei? Ko Ngāpuhi ko Ngāi Takoto ngā iwi. Ko Te Ururoroi te hapū. Ko tō mātou awa ko te Waipao. Ko Whatitiri te maunga. Ki te taha o taku pāpā nō te pāuni o te Kuki Airani nō te Oirea o Areora ko Ngāti Ngutu ko Ngāti Toki me ōna pānga ki a Ngāti Paerangi ngā iwi. [To the tribe of this land Te Āti Awa it is only right that you are acknowledged. I wholeheartedly support the kind words that have been spoken about you today. At this time I would like to acknowledge those who have passed including those in Christchurch. To those of us who have gathered within the protection of this House greetings one and all.Who is this person who stands before you? I descend from the tribes of Ngāpuhi and Ngāi Takoto. I descend from the sub-tribe of Te Ururori. Our ancestral river is Waipaoa. Our ancestral mountain is Whatitiri. On my father's side I descend from the Cook Islands from Oirea o Areora. I descend from the tribes of Ngāti Ngutu Ngāti Toki as well as its connections to Ngāti Paerangi.]Nō reira [Finally] kia orana kotou katoatoa i te aro'a rānuinui o te Atua.Mr Speaker Atiu tunu and the Tai Tokerau are in the House today. I have been thinking about the places that have defined me to get me to this place and two of those places are Manurewa and Palmerston North. To coin two phrases at once I'm Palmy-proud and 'rewa-hard. I would like to give a shout-out to everyone who is connected to both of those great two places. So to everyone who has rolled in from Palmy and the 'rewa and everywhere else in between to my campaign team from Palmerston North and also the Greens wider whānau we have put in all the hard years after a very very long campaign tēnā koutou katoa. I thank you all for your effort. I also acknowledge Tangi Utikere the MP for Palmerston North and note that two-thirds of the Cook Islands parliamentary caucus comes from Palmerston North. I actually asked a cousin of mine recently if that qualifies Palmy to be the 16th island of the Cook Islands and he said No that's Tokoroa." I said "How about 17 or 18?" And he said "No that's probably Porirua or Ōtara." Also the Cook Islands already has an island called Palmerston which means you would end up being called South Palmerston North South which would probably break Google Maps. I am both tangata whenua and tangata moana a descendant of both the land and sea. Like the tide ebbing and flowing onto the shore that doesn't know where the land begins and the sea ends up moving between these two communities is seamless for many of us who have the shared whakapapa. This connection always reminds me of a saying by poet and intellectual Teresia Teaiwa who said "We sweat and cry saltwater so that we know that the ocean is really in our blood." It reminds me that before there were borders and lines that carved up the Pacific that whakapapa connected these islands and that there is a deeper and richer tapestry of history that has been woven over centuries of interaction interactions that cannot be confined by borders but share linguistic ancestral and cultural roots from Aotearoa to Hawaii over to Rapanui and with connections with every island in between.Some people often ask me if I'm half Māori or half Pasifika and I'm always like "Nah bro. I'm not half anything; I'm whole." And I don't think anyone is half anything—if anything I'm double. If I was a beer I would be Double Brown. If I was a flavour down at the dairy I'd be Twice as Nice but at only half the price. I am two peas in the cultural pod. Growing up Māori and Pasifika means growing up biculturally and having neither of those as the dominant culture which meant I had to go to school to learn about Pākehā and to be honest I'm still learning about you people. This is not a story unique to myself but it is part of the story of places like South Auckland Porirua Aranui Highbury—anywhere where our peoples have put down roots. My parents met in the tradition of that story. What I mean by that is they met at the pub where my dad was the bouncer and my mum was trying to get in. My parents weren't the richest but we were rich in the things that matter: love. We would sometimes work in the school holidays helping my dad mow lawns for a living but I never went without. Education was really important to my parents. I remember once my dad saying to me "Hey boy you want this encyclopaedia set?" and I remember saying to him "No thanks." And just like magic I owned an encyclopaedia set. My father was born in Areora on the island of Atiu Enuamanu also known as the land of birds. I acknowledge all the Atiuans here today. We are from Ngāti Ingatu and Ngāti Toki with connections with Ngāti Paerangi. It is from my grandfather Papa Teariki Tuiono that I inherit my commitment to my communities. Today I acknowledge my aunties who are here today. Although I join a growing number of MPs who think we should have the option of pledging to the Treaty of Waitangi as opposed to the Queen I know that the old man wouldn't have minded because he got a medal from her—a Queen's Service Medal for services to community. Back in the day I would spend time at his place in Ōtara discussing left-wing politics and about the olden days back on the islands like when he was 14 working on the Makatea just over the border in French Polynesia where young Atiuans had gone to mine phosphate. His commitment to community and through that the workers continued when he migrated to Aotearoa. I think my colleagues in the Labour Party would have liked him. He was a member of their party. He would often give me helpful advice which also sounded a bit mandatory if not compulsory like the time he said to me "You know what boy? You talk a lot. You should be a minister at the PIC or a lawyer." That is the story of how I got a law degree. My father was about the same age as I am now when he passed away in 1996. He worked too many jobs for too many hours. My grandfather passed away in the year 2000 and my grandmother passed just last year. They leave me with enduring lessons that I will carry into this House. Over the many years I have been inspired politically by many people. But way before I had ever heard of Angela Davis Emma Goldman Eva Rickard Fanon Chomsky or Marx my first political role model was my mum. People often say that I am my mother's son which is very accurate because she was there when I was born. One of my earliest memories is my mum explaining to me about the Māori land march in our lounge. My mum also took me on my first protest in 1981 against the Springbok tour when I was in primary school. I remember marching down Queen Street with the multitudes chanting "Amandla amandla amandla!" When she was a cleaner she organised pickets and the workers and when I was in my late teens she dropped me and my brother off at the marae and told us to learn Māori which we did. My mother is never short on advice even if you don't want it—eh Mum?—but there was always that reminder. She would always say to me "Remember you're from the North boy." She actually said that to me last week. So yes it is northern blood that flows through these veins. To all the other Northerners in this House and I think we're in all the parties I say kia ora cuzzies. I look forward to agreeing to agree agreeing to disagree and because this is Parliament and anything could happen disagreeing to disagree.My mother's father is from the Te Uriroroi in Poroti where the watercress is fresh and the vibrance and intellectual rigour of my people is fresher. It is through Te Owai that we are connected to people across the Tai Tokerau. My grandmother is from NgāiTakoto. Our marae there is Paparore—you have to drive past Awanui and if you don't drive fast enough you will be pulled like a tractor beam into Hone Harawira's house for a cup of tea because you've got to go past his house to get there.I referenced Whatitiri earlier as one of my maunga. Whatitiri is the word for thunder and the reason it is called Thunder Mountain was because the kūkupa or kererū were so abundant that when they collectively flapped their wings it was like thunder. Now it is silent up there. All the trees have been chopped down—environmental devastation. This silence is what happens when we do not remember our history when we view events as isolated occasions and not part of the wider arc of colonisation. This dispossession of indigenous peoples correlates directly with the environmental destruction of those lands and I stand and continue to stand with indigenous brothers and sisters from the Arctic to the Amazon to Australia across Turtle Island as we push back against extractive industries and against the destruction of this planet.Climate change is an outcome of colonisation which has removed indigenous communities' ability to defend the land and the water. And here in the Pacific our island homes are on the front lines of climate change. The struggle to protect the environment is also the struggle for self-determination. That struggle here is the struggle for tino rangatiratanga. For me tino rangatiratanga could be a radically democratic alternative to capitalism in which the flax-roots local communities would be constantly and actively involved in making the decisions about the allocation of society's resources in a collective way. It should embrace a system in which our entire economy is geared up to satisfy the needs of whānau—our tikanga cultural values and aspirations—not the profit margins of a tiny elite. It would encapsulate our role as kaitiaki guardians of the earth and ecosystems. It would be based on a vision of society that affirms mana wahine; that is free of racism class exploitation; and embraces our rainbow whānau.I have always worked at the intersection of movements and I believe that it is in solidarity with each other that we are stronger. I see our work here in Parliament as Greens as a part of the wider Green movement which when woven together with other movements like a kete can hold together our collective aspirations. I will also remember to turn my face to the streets. I acknowledge all of the activists past present and yet to come who have and will put body and soul on the line for social and environmental justice—tēnā koutou. One thing I have learnt though through the years is that although ideas and ideology don't change people do. People either change or sometimes are not what you expect—soldiers who oppose war dairy farmers who are opposed to intensive dairy farming devout Christians opposed to Islamophobia. I have learnt over many years to expect the unexpected that common ground can exist if we are open to finding it and I wonder perhaps if there are unexpected friends and allies in this place.If there was ever a time in which we need to reach for alternatives it is now. The planet is heating up. Every year is hotter than the year before it. We started this year with the Australian bushfires—fires so hot that they even stained the skies here. We are facing ecological collapse and the mass extinction of species and all of this layered with the COVID crisis and deepening poverty. The powers that hold this power in place seem inevitable but I am reminded of the words of the writer Ursula Le Guin when she said "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art." Artists help us to dream about what could be and what might be and help us to consider unexpected perspectives. I want to acknowledge all the poets the writers the dancers visual artists carvers the singers and composers and those who defy definition because of the very nature of who they are. I know this personally about artists because I married one.Nō reira e te tau o taku ate taku toka tū moana tēnei te mihi ki a koe. [To the apple of my eye to my source of strength when all else is uncertain thank you.]Terri thank you for your strength and wisdom for being the calm in the storm—and the storm in the calm when needed. Thank you for always supporting my political adventures and also my political misadventures. I'm still figuring out which of those two this is yet. Thank you especially for helping me to view the world in different and unique ways. That is the gift that artists everywhere give to us all. If there is a time that we need to re-imagine the world it is now. That re-imagination must challenge the way things are to look beyond the systems that hold in place power.Science fiction has always been a medium for futuristic imagination and no surprises I'm a bit of a fan. Possibly this is the reason why I was given the science research and innovation portfolio because they probably figured "Well he's good with science fiction; let's see how he deals with science facts." I was reflecting on this as I stepped into the inner core of the Beehive where the lifts are. And I want all members to listen very carefully because I want these words to follow you whenever you step in there and that's this: it looks like the Tardis. It looks and feels dimensionally outside of space and time. But here's the thing: a Tardis is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside and that is what this place needs to be. Our ideas need to be bigger than this place—much bigger. We cannot go back to the way that things were. That world is disappearing fast and it is our role to ensure a future for our tamariki and mokopuna. As Arundhati Roy said "Another world is not only possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."Nō reira e te Whare tēnā koutou tēnā koutou huri noa i te rūma tēnā tātou katoa.[Finally to the House to everyone in this room thank you.][Applause]WaiataSPEAKER: I call Tracey McLellan for her maiden speech."