Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. As the party with the largest Māori mandate and Māori electorates I feel extremely confident in being able to stand and say that we have heard our people's call that they have reached the absolute point of intolerance. They are extremely intolerant of everything that they have had to endure with the dismantling of policies of kaupapa of passion that have been put here to advance our people.In the words of some of our constituents this is a Government that has unleashed an unholy or ruthless assault on Māori. I am extremely grateful because you have woken us up and while it is not my intent to be in this House to teach how to be honourable or to practice tikanga what I will do is use this Kāwanatanga space to wānanga rangatiratanga and speak to our own people. I will use this time and debate to speak to the 80 percent of our whānau who were not raised in kōhanga reo who were not encouraged to think about rangatiratanga who in fact believed there was only one source of truth when it came to the empowerment of whānau who were raised not knowing how it is to be generation Te Tiriti but instead fought for them. That includes people like myself who were raised in the rangatiratanga and actually battled for these kaupapa.I want to talk about our whānau and our whenua and how important it is and remind that nothing that has been achieved today to bring generation Te Tiriti was won through not having to fight—nothing. Despite many parties saying they were responsible for the kōhanga movement the kura kaupapa movement in fact it was our own people who did that battle. We must remember that in this place all the time. Pari'aka Kīngitanga Rātana—they were all enactments of rangatiratanga. Pūmau te reo the kura kaupapa the kōhanga movement—all enactments of Māori rangatiratanga. Neither needed the Kāwanatanga's budget or permission.We have let the Kāwanatanga think that it has more power than it deserves whānau mā. Kāwanatanga sees us transactionally and we often fall into that plight. They see us more transactionally than they do us being part of anything that is about growing us about our transformation and they use this control in the Kāwanatanga space to domesticate us. This place thinks that it understands and practices and upholds our tikanga without respect to w'akapapa and without respect to kawa that comes from w'akapapa.I want us to remind ourselves that 80 percent who sit on the fence who sometimes are really troubled while the 20 percent of those were growing the tangata Tiriti the tangata whenua the kura kaupapa the kōhanga movement our generation Tiriti who have grown up who understand their rights to be sovereign—I want to remind us that when the strongest power within Aotearoa stands up and says that you are not able to strike that puts the fear and uses the forked tongue to frighten you to say that you do not understand what that means. I want to remind you of your own rights and your own sovereign enshrined in Te Tiriti. I want to remind you of your own tino rangatiratanga which means we must always stand up and protect our mokopuna.I want to remind you of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act the Human Rights Act and all the aspects that mean that we cannot be sacked because of our race or our politics. I want to remind you of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which protects our right for self-determination. A singular absence is not fair ground to be dismissed and in fact would raise issues of discrimination. Bad be it on a leader who would use the media to set and sic themselves on people who would be scared and not as unapologetic as the 80 percent of those of us who have been raised in believing that the Kāwanatanga is necessary to give us permission to practice and indeed assert our rangatiratanga. We have been and always have asserted our rangatiratanga. It existed for thousands of years before the unnatural interruption. I want to remind you: do not be imprisoned by those uncles that don't believe in rangatiratanga. Tomorrow turn up. Tomorrow we will greet you we will meet you we will welcome you and you will be heard and seen. To those who don't believe in your rangatiratanga kei te pai. We will cover you. We will always look after you. But those of our mokopuna and our younger generation who do believe in rangatiratanga who have been raised to fight for rangatiratanga follow us tomorrow and listen for the kōrero on Friday because you will welcome it. Kia ora rā.