Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): It seems like this side of the House can find a grain of salt in a sugar factory. I just wanted to say as I heard the story about Goldilocks—Mama Bear Papa Bear Baby Bear—I tell you it's been very difficult to sit next to a polar bear and a gummy bear and it's been quite hard to contain the grizzly bear in me.Mr Speaker I do want to acknowledge you. Ngā mihi nui ki koe e te Māngai nāhau rā tēnei Whare i pupuri rā i te mauri kia tarea anō hoki ki te whakatutuki.[Big congratulations to you Mr Speaker who maintains the life energy of this House so that its work can be accomplished.]I do want to say that you are a huge improvement from the last Speaker we had who kicked me out for the first time. But I must say you're top of the pops because you suspended me for the first time.We are on the cusp of an Aotearoa where our tamariki are truly free to thrive in their authentic selves. No more will we allow anybody to treat us like second-class citizens on our own whenua. No more will we allow the entitled and privileged to decide what is best for us. No more will we allow white supremacy and white privilege to reign supreme on our whenua. No more will we allow those who have built their wealth off the blood of our tīpuna and off the lands they stole to continue to enforce oppressive policies that keep us at the bottom of the heap. We are the only movement that will fight for our people. We are the only movement that will stand up against the people in this country who only seek to belittle us colonise us and assimilate us. We are the only movement that is focused on making mokopuna decisions. We are the only movement committed to an Aotearoa hou.What does an Aotearoa hou look like? It looks like how we will treat you on the marae. We will welcome you. We will feed you. We will house you. We will protect you. We will educate you. We will care for you. We will love you.Te Paati Māori is a movement that leaves no one behind whether you are tangata whenua or a tangata Tiriti tangata hauā takatāpui wāhine tāne rangatahi mokopuna—you are whānau. No one will be marginalised in our whare. No matter who you are no matter where you come from everyone is welcome to the waharoa of our Aotearoa hou. We will feed you. Everyone will have the dignity to be able to put healthy kai on the table to feed our babies. No longer will the rich and the powerful feed off the backs of the 98 percent. Our goal is not to reduce poverty but to eliminate it.We will house you. No one should be homeless. We've got 94000 empty homes in Aotearoa right now. No one should be paying half of their income in rent to feed their landlord's whānau when they can barely afford to feed their own whānau. No one should live in cold damp housing that makes their tamariki sick. Māori make up 60 percent of homeless in Aotearoa and 50 percent of the housing waiting list. Tangata whenua should never be homeless on their own lands. No one will be homeless in an Aotearoa hou.We will protect you. The greatest violence you can inflict on anyone is poverty. You cannot arrest or imprison poverty out of society. Te Paati Māori will never support legislation that locks up our tamariki at 12 years old. One law for all does not apply to the privileged. No one should get name suppression to protect political agendas at the expense of the victim.We will educate you. In an Aotearoa hou everyone will know their rights. Everyone has a right to know their whakapapa. If you don't know your whakapapa your whakapapa knows you. If you don't know your maunga your maunga knows you. If you don't know your awa your awa knows you. If you don't know your reo your reo knows you.We wait and we anticipate more people coming to the waharoa of our Aotearoa hou as we head into this election. Hika mā! It is now time for us to believe in ourselves to be proud to be magic and to believe in your mana. Our Aotearoa hou gives a space to dream. You are the solutions waiting to happen.I want to acknowledge our team this year who punched well above their weight class. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou. I am proud of you all I am proud of our movement and I'm proud to head into this campaign doing what we said we would do. All of the things that they've said over there—Kelvin Davis thank you for outlining the Māori Party manifesto of 2020. We're really really proud of that. Welcome Meka to the team. E te iwi ngā mihi nui ki a koutou tēnā koutou. Kia ora tātou katoa.