Wall Louisa: Ngati Whatua Orakei Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Wall Louisa: Ngati Whatua Orakei Claims Settlement Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 14 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6694. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
LOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa) 
: 
 Kia ora Mr Speaker. E nga mana e nga reo rau rangatira ma tena koutou tena koutou tena tatou katoa. Nga mihi nga whanau o Ngati Whatua o Orakei. Kia ora Matua Joe. Kia ora to Alec to Grant to Sharon to the entire Hawke whanau to Danny—anyone else Pare? 
Hon Parekura Horomia 
: No that’s covered. 
LOUISA WALL 
: That is about it—other than everybody who is here today and all the rangatahi especially who are here today. Today is a celebration. I am very proud to be in the House today. 
I actually want to begin my korero with a quote from Grant Pakihana Hawke who is the chair of the Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board. Before I say that I do want to acknowledge previous trust board chairs Sir Hugh Kawharu and Ruby Hinemoa Gray. To quote Matua Grant from your strategic plan 2011-12: “Ngati Whatua Orakei are resilient yet humble people with the unique advantage of having mana whenua in the largest city in Aotearoa. We have navigated our way through adversity continually faced political challenges and yet we are still here still claiming our stake in this world and forever striving to honour the moemoea of our tupuna.” I am really proud to be here as the MP for Manurewa. I am on the Maori Affairs Committee and I want to mihi to our chair the Hon Tau Henare and my fellow Maori Affairs Committee members. I want to mihi to the Minister of Maori Affairs. This is an area where there is consensus in the House. We are trying the hardest we can as the Maori Affairs Committee to resolve all our Treaty settlements. This is a very proud day not only for Ngati Whatua o Orakei. As Grant said this morning this is your day this your time Ngati Whatua. 
I also want to acknowledge the hapu of Ngati Whatua: Te Taou Nga Oho and Te Uringutu. I particularly want to quote again from your strategic plan and “He moemoea: te pai me te whai rawa o Tamaki!”. This is from your strategic plan: “In the year 2030 5000 descendants of Tuperiri live on the papakainga and contribute to tribal life … The papakainga is self-sufficient. We sell electricity back to the national grid due to all the solar panels and wind turbines in use. We collect and use rainwater. We produce very little waste as the resource recovery depot allows whanau to trade their compost for worms for their own gardens. Many whanau have built their own whare while others are happy to rent off the tribe … Our land is tax-free. Most of our whenua has regenerating ngahere on the reserve land and in between buildings. The bird-song is now louder than the traffic on Tamaki Drive! In between their bowls and dart competitions our elders hold regular wananga for the up and coming kai korero and leaders. They go en masse to tangi and important hui in Kaipara Tauranga Waikato Rarotonga Tahiti and Hawaii to represent the hapu and maintain our economic and spiritual ties.” These are the dreams and aspirations of Ngati Whatua and this settlement is only part of the how. 
 I want to highlight the loss of land that Ngati Whatua o Orakei has had. In 1840 at the Treaty of Waitangi signing Ngati Whatua o Orakei tribal lands totalled 77997 acres. In 1855 a mere 15 years post colonisation 700 acres remained in Ngati Whatua o Orakei hands. That is 0.9 percent of your original tribal ancestral lands. By 1927 that had become 12.5 acres which represents 0.016 percent of your tribal lands. To put the Devonport settlement into perspective the 7.9 acres that you have paid for represent 0.01 percent of your original tribal lands. How incredibly generous of you to settle for that amount of land so on behalf of all of us here I want to say thank you. And I want to reiterate the words of Maggie Barry that the people of Aotearoa the people of Tamaki-makau-rau and the people of Devonport actually should look to you for leadership and look to you for a path forward. I want to acknowledge the generosity not only of spirit but of the leadership that you now have within Tamaki-makau-rau as the mana whenua for where we are today. Kia ora and thank you very much.  
I want to just quickly look at your history of protest. Right throughout the colonisation period you have fought and your tupuna have fought for your rights. You have fought to get your lands back through the courts through whatever mechanisms were available to you. Other people have spoken about what happened in 1951 and it is quite poignant really with Prince Charles being in Aotearoa that in 1951 you were booted up Boot Hill which is what I knew it to be when I first moved to Tamaki-makau-rau. The fact that your houses were burnt down that you lost your ability to live on your own lands is actually a dark day in our history but again it shows how resilient you are. In 1976 when the Crown attempted to sell the last 60 acres at Orakei it was Joseph Parata Hawke and the whanau of Ngati Whatua who stood strong for 506 days with the collaboration of many other people. I think we should acknowledge that that protest also included Pakeha it included union members and it included anybody actually who believed in social justice. They stood side by side with you because they acknowledged that as people of Aotearoa there was a great injustice being perpetuated on Ngati Whatua Orakei. I particularly want to acknowledge Alec and Miro because they lost their daughter Joannee and it does bring me to tears when I think about that fact that actually blood has been spilt on Ngati Whatua’s journey to where we are today. The memorial that is there on Takaparawhau for her is a wonderful thing so I just want to acknowledge that. 
I have been interested in what Ngati Whatua Orakei have decided are their strategic priorities. What do you want to achieve now that you are going to get a little bit of putea? You are going to get a capital base so that you can look at meeting the needs of your whanau. I was really interested in your five strategic priorities. No. 1 is about whanau. It is about Ngati Whatua Orakei ora whatever that means for you. It means that you are nga wha nga mana nau. You want to be healthy. You want to be educated. You want to be housed. I just want to note that you have a heat-pump scheme which is pretty cool. You want to make sure that your whanau live in healthy warm homes. The second principle is kotahitanga. The third principle is whenua. The fourth principle is whai maia. The fifth principle is whai rawa. So for me Ngati Whatua are well and truly on a path for ensuring that you will provide the opportunities for your tamariki mokopuna in the future. 
I just want to end and quote again from your submission. This is your day. In conclusion I quote: “the settlement provides Ngati Whatua Orakei with the ability to again have a rightful place in Tamaki. The cultural redress is very important in this. The ability to purchase the land from the Crown gives us the opportunity over time to buy back some small part of our rohe and so enhance the economic … benefits which will flow from that to all members of our hapu. We see the settlement as a strong statement by the wider community in Tamaki that they acknowledge Ngati Whatua Orakei belong here and are an integral part of the fabric of Tamaki.” Kia ora.