Mahuta NanaiaHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Associate Minister for Māori Development): I want to begin by acknowledging our Government team and in particular my fellow Labour Māori MPs who continue to represent the aspirations of Māori in this House. Minister Davis spoke in this debate last week and referenced the Leader of the Opposition opening up the National playbook and scrolling down through Don Brash's footnotes—jeez talk about a blast from the past. It's clear that when all else fails that side of the House reverts to the politics of division trying to sanitise history and ignoring obligations set out under the Treaty of Waitangi. This is an interesting tactic and if we look at the poll in weekend it shows that that old playbook still isn't working. New Zealanders do not want to go backwards. The Opposition has stepped backwards from the days of the Key/English Government. The weekend poll showed that John Key is still rating higher than the current Opposition leader as preferred Prime Minister and it's no surprise. Key and English didn't shy away from their Treaty obligations. They didn't try and sweep things under the rug yet Judith Collins wants to turn back on the Treaty and she wants to turn back on how far we've come as a nation. She wants to ignore how much more there is to do.National previously embraced their Treaty obligations and the concept of partnership. Just look at some of the legislation that they passed in their time: Te Urewera Act 2014 which saw co-governance and in fact eventually moving to Te Urewera being the main governors in their rohe. Then there is the Waikato River Authority an independent statutory board enabling co-governance and co-management frameworks to work between the Crown and river iwi. The Act that established the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority is an Act that transferred ownership of 14 tūpuna maunga in Tāmaki-Makaurau to 13 iwi to be able to be co-governed. Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park provides for co-governance. Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island is where Ngāti Manuhiri with the Auckland Conservation Board have a co-management plan. You know what? Even Nick Smith saw the merit of partnership when he said about He Whare Āhuru the Māori housing strategy at the time that The Government acknowledges the ambition of Māori and iwi to lead improvements in housing for their people their desire to build on papakāinga land and the value they place on better housing and homeownership. It recognises that improving housing is a part of a long-term vision for Māori to control their own affairs and provide a better future for whānau now and for future generations."These Acts were good for National when they were in Government but they don't want to have anything to do with it now that they're in Opposition. Oh my how the worm turns. This Government understands that working in partnership with Māori helps to lift outcomes for Māori and indeed society at large. When Māori do well everyone does well and we do this on a daily basis. What we see are the benefits of a partnership in practice—Māori providers mobilising to respond to COVID-19 iwi responding to natural disasters to support our wider community Māori advocating for the long-term intergenerational wellbeing of the environment and indeed do I say fresh water.There is so much that we have done and it's important to highlight that in the remaining time we have got because tomorrow's Budget is on its way. I want to commend the hard work of our Minister of Finance. So let's go.What have we done to date? We've invested in kōhanga reo to improve pay for kaiako and upgrade buildings. We're improving access to healthy affordable homes through investing in papakāinga and housing repair programmes. We're investing in employment and skills training for Māori through He Poutama Rangatahi Mana in Mahi and Māori cadetships. We're setting a goal for 1 million New Zealanders speaking te reo Māori by 2040. We're introducing Matariki as a public holiday and making ratings changes to allow councils the ability to wipe rates arrears of whenua Māori. We're supporting councils to introduce Māori wards. We're introducing a social procurement target to lift Māori enterprise and support the Māori economy. We're supporting whenua Māori development supporting marae restoration establishing Te Arawhiti and continuing to work through the Treaty settlement process.We've unveiled a statue of Dame Whina Cooper to recognise her contribution. We're making sure that New Zealand history is taught in all schools and kura by 2022. We're providing record investment into Whānau Ora because we know it works. There is so much more to do. On this side of the House we're certainly looking forward to the Budget for all New Zealanders because we're moving forward not backwards. We know that partnership works and when we do things with others with Māori with local government with community so much can be achieved."