Maipi-Clarke Hana-RawhitiHANA-RAWHITI MAIPI-CLARKE (Te Pāti Māori—Hauraki-Waikato): [Singing] Nō reira mauria mai ngā tamariki ki te kōhanga reo.[And so bring the children to the kōhanga reo.]I find it very interesting that one person in this Parliament is so triggered—so triggered—by me so intimidated by me! Not once did I mention not once did I say anything over here. I sat. So if we want to go there let's go there. Nau mai ki tō mātou nei Whare nau mai ki tōku nei marae haere ki te kōrero atu ki ōku nei kaumātua haere ki te kōrero ki ōku nei ruruhi koroheke o Ngāti Rangi nō ngā hau e whā o te motu. Haramai ki te kōrero. Moumou tō toto Māori moumou tō toto Māori moumou tō toto Māori. [Welcome to our House welcome to my marae go and speak with my elders go and speak with my matriarchs and patriarchs of Ngāti Rangi from the four winds of the nation. Come and speak with us. Your Māori blood is wasted your Māori blood is wasted your Māori blood is wasted.]I think Mr Winston Peters would be so proud of this young Māori wahine from Rāhui Pōkeka one of the youngest members of Parliament. I say humbly—Rt Hon Winston Peters: Oh you said you were the youngest. HANA-RAWHITI MAIPI-CLARKE: —one of"—"one of". Engari he aha? [But what?]I'm not intimidated. I've got no chips on my shoulder. And I find it—SPEAKER: Sorry I don't want to stand; that would be inappropriate. But address the House not a single member.HANA-RAWHITI MAIPI-CLARKE: Āe thank you. E whakahīhī ana a Winitana i a au nā runga anō i te mea koia te [Winston is proud of me because] he was one of the first signatures actually on Te Petihana Reo Māori tabled by my namesake Hana Te Hemara at Parliament. So I think he's actually quite proud. He was once on the right side.Engari hei aha tērā hei aha ia kei konei au ki te waha i ngā kōrero mō Te Pāti Māori i te ata nei. Hei aha ērā kōrero i tāmitia ki a mātou ngā uri o Te Kōhanga Reo ngā uri o tātou te iwi Māori. E tū ana ahau ki te waha i ngā kōrero o Te Pāti Māori nei. Ka tuatahi ake ngā kōrero ki tō mātou nei kīngi a Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero te Tuawhitu me tōna whare kāhui ariki. Rirerire hau pai mārire. Ko te kupu tuatahi i tēnei pō ko te reo whakamiha ko te reo kōkiri ki tō mātou nei iwi te iwi Māori i kōkirihia i ngā tiriti i te rangi tonu nei. Ka nui rā te mihi i a tātou Te Pāti Māori i takahi nei ki runga o Pōneke. [But never mind that never mind him I am here to voice the statements of the Māori Party this morning. Pay no mind to those comments that oppress us the descendants of the Kōhanga Reo movement the descendants of our Māori people. I stand to voice the statements of the Māori Party here. These statements will first acknowledge our king King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII and his royal family. Peace and good will to all. The first comment this evening is the voice of acknowledgment the call to our people the Māori people that progressed through the streets this very day. Many thanks to them from us the Māori Party that traversed Wellington.]For some it was Budget day but for rest of us it was activation day. I'm not here to talk about the Budget because "What Budget?"—there's nothing in it for us. The word "Māori" is not even mentioned once in this Budget within health education and police. So I'm going to turn to the kōrero that I gave today which I think is more significant than this kaupapa here today with our people and Te Kōhanga Reo.In 1840 our tūpuna signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi which asserted our rights as tangata whenua in our country. In the past seven months I have witnessed nearly every single right be stripped away from us from our reo from our health to our taiao to our justice system to Māori wards housing and I have never been more triggered or traumatised than last week when this Government made a clear attack on the rights of our babies and mokopuna through whakapapa in section 7AA. This Government is trying to create another stolen generation and we won't stand for it. Christopher Luxon Winston Seymour can you hear us? Can you feel us?How extraordinary is it that kura and kōhanga reo have only been funded less than 1 percent over the last decade by successive Governments. Despite this approach kura kaupapa continues to be amongst the highest performing educational systems in the country. Our tamariki and mokopuna are worth more than 1 percent. This House once talked about the extinction of Māori. In 1856 Dr Featherston said "We must soften the pillow of the dying Māori race." In my maiden speech I said "We are here." Today the wave spoke for itself. Now the Government has underestimated this wave. Within my debates throughout the campaign election I said the kōhanga reo generation is here and there is a huge wave of us coming through.Te Kāhui Raraunga shows us that we are growing and we are young and this wave will not die out. For some of us who are sitting across who are not growing young and who are not of this wave tēnei te ngaru nui te ngaru roa o te ao Māori te haramai nei [this is the huge wave the long-lasting wave of the Māori world that approaches].Today I leave this message with you: kua roa nei tātou e huri tuarā ana ki te Moana Nui a Kiwa—for a long time we have turned our backs to the moana. Me huri te anga o te kakau o te hoe me aro ngā mata ngā whatu ki te Moana Nui a Kiwa. [The shaft of the oar should turn the face and eyes should turn to the Pacific Ocean.]This fight isn't just our fight; it's everyone's fight. It's not French Polynesia; it's Tahiti. It's not the United States of America; it's Hawai'i. It's not New Caledonia; it's Kanaky. We must move our waves together so that we embody our Hawaiki hou. We are the biggest embodiment of water on this planet. Tātou Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. There's nothing to fear and lose from this wave but everything to gain. This wave welcomes every generation and every race. Kāore anō au kia kite i te pū o te raupatu engari kua kite au i te mata o te pene—I haven't seen the barrel of a musket but I have seen the sword of the pen striking at the heart of Māori. We as a party may not get to change anything on paper or law yet but we will continue to unite the hearts and minds of our people.I leave this last message to my generation: they cannot stop this wave. These are the waves of our Hawaiki hou. Our responsibility our job is to unleash the floodgates remove the barricades that stop us. We are moving and we are moving strong. A kuia and koro—this actually connects to what has just happened before—will always hold their grandchild's hand and move them into te āpōpō but what we have to remember from our generation is that we have to hold the hands of our kaumātua and rūruhi—and I'll hold Winston's hand—to move them into an Aotearoa hou. We need to make sure that we are bringing our rūruhi our koroheke our kaumātua with us in places that were unimaginable—that were unimaginable—in their times; that they've fought with blood sweat and tears.Ko tērā tō mātou nei haepapa e taku whakareanga kia kaua rā anō tātou e wareware ki ō mātou ruruhi koroheke e takahi nei i tēnei whenua kia hoki mai rātou ki tēnei Hawaiki hou hoki. Ko tātou tēnā. [That is our responsibility my generation to not forget our matriarchs our patriarchs that traverse this land so that they too return to this new Hawaiki. That is who we are.]Today was—kāore he kupu i a tātou Te Pāti Māori i te rangi nei. [We the Māori Party have no words today.]Not one fault not one arrest not one hiccup within motivating mobilising and galvanising the whole motu from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South Island moving towards our tino rangatiratanga and our Hawaiki hou that leads us into the future.Now I know some may look at this and think "What the hell is this girl on about?" but I'm going to tell you this: I know who I am I know where I've come from and I know where I'm going. I know that might be intimidating for some people in this House and some people might be harawene or pūhaehae of that. I'm telling you there's nothing to fear from us. And I am willing to bring you along with us.Nau mai ki tō tātou nei marae; nau mai ki te reo Māori; nau mai ki te ao Māori; nau mai ki tō tātou nei Aotearoa hou. Tēnā rā tātou katoa. [Welcome to our marae; welcome to the Māori language; welcome to the Māori world; welcome to our new New Zealand. Thanks to you all.]"