Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) (remote): Kōkōmako kōkōmako. Ko te hau tapu e rite ki te kai nā Matariki. Tapa reireia koia tapa tapa konunua koiana tukua hī auē hī. Ko Matariki te kaitō i te hunga pakeke ki te pō—Matariki draws the frail into the endless night.E te tokotoru Tā Wira Te Kahurangi Temuranga Jackson Tākuta Moana Jackson. Whoatu rā koutou ki te pō e tōia ai e Matariki. Waiho mātou ki muri nei e takitaki ana i te hau tapu e ō nei te hau kāinga. Kāti ake.[To the three of you Sir Wira Dame Te Kahurangi Temuranga Jackson and Dr Moana Jackson. Go ahead into the night drawn by Matariki. Leave us behind to recite in the hautapu ceremony as the response from home. Enough.]What a momentous occasion this is for Aotearoa. Since the first celebrated public holiday which was an anniversary day in 1843 it's only taken 180-odd years to have a day that celebrates the essence of what it is to be Māori. I celebrate this kaupapa as a policy win for Te Paati Māori. I congratulate the Hon Kiritapu Allan and Labour and their courage to achieve this outcome. It is still a shameful stain on this country that Māori kaupapa or mātauranga Māori is still too brown or too native to acknowledge.E te whanaunga e Rangi nā koutou te hinu o tēnei pire i tunu kia maoa. Hotu Jacko Ruakere Rereata Victoria Pauline nei rā a Autahi ngutu tāperu e tārake mai nei e mihi nei. Ko Matariki te whetū e arataki e! [To my relation Rangi all of you have prepared and cooked this bill like a game bird to perfection. Hotu Jacko Ruakere Rereata Victoria Pauline this is Canopus of the pouting lips shining alone paying tribute. Matariki will guide you.]Matariki will guide you. Matariki is an annual reset therefore an opportunity for our country to reset our nation's compass. It allows us to acknowledge our past to inform our future. We have a huge window of opportunity to look at a more progressive equitable and equal future for Aotearoa. As Matariki prepares to reveal what the coming year may have in store for us our nation's reset is imperative. It is time for constitutional reset for constitutional transformation that is rooted in the binding contract that is Te Tiriti o Waitangi. This will not only inform the way we do things but will underpin the values in which we do them. Tirohia Matariki te whetū o te tau e whakamoe mai rā – e homai ana rongo—look at Matariki star of the year preparing to sleep up there. It signals this news.For many of our whānau out there constitutional transformation is not high up on the priority list of things to do because we're trying to feed our babies and whānau put a roof over their heads trying to pay the rent and the doctors' fees or trying to find mahi—simply living in an oppressive colonising State. Matariki is the reset for reclaiming our mana motuhake and our tino rangatiratanga to be able to as Māori make our own decisions once again to work out our own destiny to exercise what is called in international law the right to self-determination. I express this to the House and to our people: e te iwi Māori matike mai! [to the Māori people stand up!]. Matariki is our reset. Matariki is our New Year. Matariki is our dawn. Matariki is the reawakening of our indigenous truth whose time has come. Kua tae kē te wā mā Māori anō a Māori e kōrero mā Māori anō a Māori e rangatira. [The time has already come when Māori themselves should speak for Māori Māori themselves should ennoble Māori.]Nā reira I conclude my contribution to this debate with the words of the great Māori composer Tuini Ngāwai: Shine down thy glowing light o Matariki on to Mother Earth as a guiding light for this land. Nurture the bloom that it may blossom and on it benefit for the poor and the needy.Horohia e Matarikiki te WhenuaTe māramatanga mō te motu eKia tipu he puāwai hōnoreMō te pani mō te rawakore eMō te rawakore e.[Spread your light oh MatarikiOn to Mother EarthAs a guiding light for the country May an honourable bloom growFor the poor for the needy.]I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora tātou.