Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you. It is my great privilege to stand on behalf of the Green Party and acknowledge today imi Moriori in this House and all of your hapū. Even though you are behind me we see you in the gallery and in the deed of settlement we hear your collective cries across the generations: the cries that existed before the harm that offered the world a new way a way without conflict and war and the cries of pain on the assaults on your mana and the duplicity and treachery of the Crown in failing to protect you and using your experience to continue pain against others.This day has been a long time coming. I can't even really understand it as a 50something-year-old woman standing here. It is many generations beyond my life experience that has taken us to get to this point in the House today. It's been spoken of already in the House of the petition from 1862 as kind of the beginning in some ways of this process of engagement with the Crown to get the acknowledgment of the harm. While the Crown back then did not take the opportunity to step in even though they knew what was happening and the terrible slaughter of people and taking people into slavery from the iwi that had come across they chose not to act. It's hard I think for many of us to understand the struggle and the impact of a struggle that goes on for that long. As a Green Party member I also have to acknowledge that the challenge of negotiating these settlements is imperfect—is a polite way of saying that—and could also be described as another act of violence. I want to remind this House as we stand here and acknowledge the pain of the past that that is still present in the systems that we continue to use today and that as this settlement offers cultural redress that can be agreed between the Crown and imi Moriori and hapū it is not what is deserved and it is as was spoken by the Minister not a restoration in any sense at all. It is the best that you have managed to negotiate in appalling circumstances. I really want to acknowledge the resilience and tenacity to hang in in that process and keep your heads up to the future for those who are to come and for yourselves. I really look forward to the day where the spirit that you have brought with you through these times is able to flourish to the extent that the world needs not just that you need.I do have to just say that when we see the settlement and the financial aspect of it which is $18 million—I want to bring that into this House and acknowledge that all of the Treaty settlements combined in this country amount to two months of superannuation. I really wish that people who are on online chats spreading hate would actually just come to grips with that reality and recognise the deep generosity and absolute resilience of imi and iwi to be able to accept these realities to have a hope of moving on.We have heard from quite a few of the speakers some of the retelling of the history. I too will just touch on some of that. I always feel slightly conflicted in the House doing this because it feels in some ways at times that it's like—when people have lived through the harm hearing it acknowledged has a power but it's also having to hear it again and being taken back to that pain and I'm always reluctant to do that in the face of such resilience. But I also feel a duty for us to be talking to the broader population to get through this message of how great the harm has been and in this instance in particular because it has been mentioned about the role of the School Journal in creating the myth of the Moriori as an inferior people who were—in a completely made-up history that was used to justify the Crown's further colonisation in this country and the deep harm to Moriori of that but to us as a country has been absolutely appalling. Many of us in this country have held those stories believing them to be true and we still see those lies come up in arguments when it comes to race relations and colonisation.So it cannot be said enough that they were lies perpetuated by the Crown to continue the process of colonisation and that the Moriori were not pushed out from New Zealand that they were the first people in Rēkohu and that they were not conquered by anybody that they held their mana and their practices of Nunuku's Law to be able to have a hope of their future according to their own values and that meant not engaging in war; and the contrast to the Crown's action of imposing war and failing to offer the protections of the Crown that were supposedly one of the few benefits of colonisation really brings the harshness of this into focus. I also just want to acknowledge that within this settlement and for people and some of the hope of the future a critical part is that retelling and that acknowledgment of the history because of the deep harm caused by the lies. But it is also around cultural redress and ensuring the correct names for places on the islands. That matters because really how we know the world is by how we name it and when we impose colonial or incorrect names on places we create a lie of what is there. That renaming I hope brings some peace and a strengthened sense of connection for the Moriori hapū.Also there are arrangements around co-management and also ensuring that Moriori will be consulted on some critical—I've lost the word; I'm going to use infrastructure" but it's not the right word but in terms of key assets—and that this is not the end of the process. This is part of the process and there are more discussions to come and some land will be returned. But again too that conversation is not finished because of the overlapping interests.But I do want to finish this speech again just acknowledging the incredible generosity of Moriori people in coming to this settlement and the phenomenal resilience and I can't imagine but that your karāpuna would be so proud of you today and the children in this country and around the world really should take inspiration from this story of survival. I for one look forward to a time where your cultural traditions are able to thrive and hopefully influence more of us towards a world where peace is the norm."