Jones Shane: Raukawa Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: Raukawa Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 06 August 2013. Volume:692;Page:12411. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Third ReadingHon SHANE JONES (Labour):Ākātitēnātātou katoai rotoitōtātou Whare. Kore he Wharehira atui rotoi te aotōrangapūi te Whare etūnei. Engā manuhirikuatatū mai ki TeŪpoko-o-te-Ika ki temātakitakii amātoungākaitōrangapūMāori me ōmātou hoaPākehātēnā koutou.Roanoatēneirangi etāriaana.Roanoatēneirangi ewhakaarohiaananā reiratēnei koutou emātakitakineipēhearānei te rere o tekōrero tetū o te tangata ki te tautokoi tewhakaarokuapaui a koutou ki tewhakairo ki tekapu o tepepangātahi mengā reo o teKarauna.Nā reira engāmātua engāwhaea engāhuangamaha o roto o Raukawatēnā koutoutēnā koutou.Mepēnei tetīmatanga heiwhakahuaake kiamau ki tekapu o tepepa ongākōrero kapupurutia ki rotoitēnei Whare mewhakahuaakei te roheiputa maiai koutouitēneirā. Maii aWairereHorohoro kiPōhaturoatū mairā kiŌngāroto te whare o te tupunanei aWhāita. MaiiNukuhou kiTaupō-nui-a-Tia kiHūrākia ki tepae maungaiHauhungaroa. Maii Titiraupenga Maunga ki Te Paeroa o Raukawa ki tetihi o te maunga a Wharepuhunga me te maraeiArowhenua ki tepae maungai Whakamaru; katitiro ki tewhānuitanga o te rohe ki TeKoakoaroa-o-Pātetere kiMaungatautau. Atuikonā ki Wharepuhunga ki te tupuna aHoturoa ki te maraeiParāwera.Tēnei iwi a Raukawamētōnaingoawhakakakara.Tēnā peahore hekōreroātaahua atui tepiringa o tetūpuna aTūrongo metanapōuriiriroi tetuatahi aRuaputahangai te tuakana aWhatihua katau tepōuri ki aTūrongo. Ka ahu atu ki roto oKauhungunu taerawa atu kiKahotea.Nōnai reira kawaihangatia te wharenānaiāwhina. Ko TeAngiangi teingoa o tehungarei.Kātahi katau tetitiro kirungai tewahinepūrotu aMāhinarangi.Kīhairawai tetuatahi aTūrongoimōhio ko wairāneitēneiwhakaihi.Otirānōtanarongongai tewhakakakara maiingārau o te kawakawakātahi katatūi a ia tewhakaaro kiariro maii a autēnāwahine hei hoapūmau.Kātahi kaputa ko Raukawa. Ko koutoungā mokopunangā uri owēnātūpuna rangatira o Te AoMāoritēnā koutoutēnā koutoutēnā koutou katoa.[Well then greetings to us in our House. There is no other House in the political world as great as the House that stands before us. To the visitors that have arrived in Wellington to watch usMāori politicians and our European counterparts greetings to you collectively. This day has been a long-awaited and thought-over one. So here you are watching to see in which direction the contributions will go and the position a person will take in support of the thoughts you each gave and crafted together upon the cusp of the paper in the languages of the Crown. Therefore greetings and salutations to you uncles aunties and many relations within Raukawa.I will begin by outlining the region where you have come from today so that places mentioned are captured and retained in the records of this House. It begins at TeWairere andHorohoro and goes toPōhaturoa whereŌngāroto the house of this ancestorWhāita stands. FromNukuhou it goes toTaupō-nui-a-Tia toHūrākia to the mountain range ofHauhungaroa. From Titiraupenga it goes to the mountain range of Raukawa to the peak of Wharepuhunga and the courtyard ofArowhenua to the mountain range at Whakamaru; and to gaze at the vast expanse of the region at TeKaokaoroa-o-Pātetere toMaungatautari. From there it goes to Wharepuhunga to the ancestorHoturoa to the courtyard atParāwera. This is the tribe of Raukawa and its name derived from the aromatic scent of the Raukawa plant.There is probably not a tale more beautiful than the one about the union of the ancestorTūrongo and his distress at the loss of his first loveRuaputahanga to his elder male relativeWhatihua. He was overcome with sadness. He then moved on to the Kahungunu region and eventually settled atKahotea. While he was there a house was constructed and he helped build it. TeAngiangi was the name of his father-in-law. In timeTūrongo’s gaze settled upon the beautiful womanMāhinarangi. He did not know at first who this betrothed woman was. But when the aromatic scent of the leaves from the Raukawa tree on her came to him he resolved immediately that he wanted that woman to be his wife. And so Raukawa was born. You are the grandchildren and descendants of those two noble ancestors ofMāoridom greetings salutations and acknowledgements to you all. ]We rise to support this Raukawa Claims Settlement Bill. This is a bill that relates to a tribe who are a living example of a very bleak period of New Zealand’s history in the North Island. Recently we were told about the stories of ahapū ofNgāti Kahungunu and the effects of colonisation on that part of Aotearoa. But the story that lies behind this particular iwi is a story that opens our eyes and reminds us about how voracious the appetite was amongst our settler pioneer colonial ancestors. They came with a voracious appetite for land and nothing—not the law not tikanga and not the gospel—was going to stand in their way.Ngāti Raukawa are a part of the broader communitythat we refer to inMāoridom as the upholders of theKīngitanga but in this particular story—and that is why this bill is so cleverly crafted—it tells the story that additional grievance was visited uponNgāti Raukawa when 20000 acres of their land was used to settle the grievances of a further dispossessed group ofMāori fromNgāti Kahungunu. In that sense it has got the resonance of the history of the Native American people: moving tribes of Indians from one particular part into Oklahoma and dislocating others. So we have got a little burst of that in our own history.The bill isolates the most egregious examples of what happened to thematuas of this iwi. It links their struggle to one of the most iconic battles in the history of the CrownPākehā and tangata whenua. I refer here toŌrākau. In addition to that it points out that once matters in Tauranga Moana reached the point of bloodshed they also suffered. So in many respects when we deal with this bill we are dealing with an iwi that have had the harshest form of treatment as a result of partly standing up for their rights and observing the obligations of kinship but also partly being at the wrong place at the wrong time and incapable of standing against the voracious appetite of the colonial land-gobbling taniwha. It is all laid out in this bill and although it may not make for pleasant reading unless we observe and acknowledge the debts of history it is difficult to imagine how a small group like this can successfully move forward.We will support this bill. We will take an active role in ensuring that the submissions coming to theMāori Affairs Committee are well received but if there are areas where the bill can be refined then both sides of the House—I have got no doubt in my mind—will have no hesitation in taking on such suggestions. The challenge for a select committee dealing with a Treaty bill is however that the tangata whenua on this side and the Crown on this side they make a deal. It is never a perfect deal because we are on the face of the Earth. We are not in heaven. You certainly are not in heaven when you are in Parliament. We can make only so many improvements because at the end of the day it is a pact between the leaders of theMāori community—whether they come in the form of ahapū or an iwi or as in recent times last week in a bill known as thetokotoru tapu or words to that effect. So they come in various shapes and forms but it is important that the members of this iwi realise that the bill will be expedited to the extent that it can be. There is no great politics of a divisive nature between this side of the House and that side of the House on these particular issues. Sometimes the exigencies of the parliamentary timetable and thekēhua known as urgency do interfere with the sitting time but I have no hesitation in stating that we will be supporting this bill.It is an area where in another time there would have been an inordinately large and flourishing set ofMāori communities. However the household labour force survey on unemployment is out today and I can assure you that forMāori families living in that area it does not make flash reading. We are dealing with a situation in which for many of theMāori families in this particular area young males are afflicted with an unemployment problem of 20 or 25 percent. This bill is not the elixir that will wipe all those problems away but it does provide what Eddie Durie—in times gone by when he was the president of the Waitangi Tribunal and not suing the Crown Forestry Rental Trust—talked about in the Waiheke Island claim report. He talked about a tribal endowment a capital base that the iwi can use rely upon and grow for future generations to grow the prestige of the tribe to maintain the tikanga to maintain the heritage and as time goes on to expand economic opportunities for the people not only of the iwi but of the community who live close to where the iwi is located. It is always a balance as to what can be transferred and what is available to be dedicated to an economic outcome.We have no hesitation on this side of the House in acknowledging the people here today and in working constructively with the Minister for Treaty of WaitangiNegotiations and the Government of the day to ensure that the bill enjoys an expeditious passage. Kia oratātou.