Ngarewa-Packer Debbie; van Velden Brooke; Brownlee GerryDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Last week our co-leader Rawiri Waititi raised a phrase that we are punch drunk". It's a phrase used to describe our fatigue—our fatigue from defending our culture our fatigue from being unable to act normally our fatigue from fighting for our rights and our identity and fatigue from feeling persecuted for being tangata whenua. It is truly believed that this Government has started one of the biggest attacks that we've had as Māori since the 1860s and oh for our people to have the luxury to curl up in a corner and cry. The amount of pain fear and harm that we are seeing from our whānau is heartbreaking. But no as tangata whenua we must brave up because we don't get to have the break because we must stand strong and give our whānau hope despite the tsunami of constant assaults and it's deliberate. It's deliberately done based on a history which is taught to us to grind us down. Māori-focused solutions designed for generations are ending. The Māori Health Authority is demolished. Māori mokopuna in State detention with solutions like section 7AA—gone. Auahi kāti programmes demolishing Māori wards fast-tracking seabed mining. Removing section 7AA for us is violent. Confiscating our reo is violence. Taking away Te Tiriti and constitutional rights is violence. Continual oppression to us as Māori is violence. And now we have the foreshore and seabed decrying with front-page paid advertisements saying "Kiwis not iwis" because it's all about going backwards. Prisons where we're having mega-prisons developed to prison their way to justice. Boot camps. Where is the aroha from this Government for its tangata whenua whose solution to help with the British settlers who were unruly was to offer Te Tiriti? Whānau mā I think it's really important that we are aware of what we're in. The deliberate fatigue of repealing policy extractions and policy demolishes before the big one comes because the big one is coming and who is the architect behind this? How is this Government letting a small party like ACT be the tail that wags the dog? How has ACT groomed the Prime Minister and indeed National into deliberately exercising ethnocide? Let me explain what ethnocide is. It is the deliberate systemic destruction of our culture and us as tangata whenua by using legislative power and political force and influence to make us into one—their one and our none. We'll all be one New Zealanders one people—where have we heard that before? This Government has lost control. It is very clear whānau mā that National is being run by ACT and they're allowing them to destroy our culture one repeal one piece of legislation one punch at a time—very hard and very low and it's deeply deeply dark. This Government is being led by a dark triad and let me explain what that means. Three personality traits: the Machiavellian the psychopath and the narcissist and I'll get you to guess which one is which. They're manipulative extremely entitled and they lack empathy but together those traits are dangerous for our people because together they create some of the cruellest social chaos ever known to indigenous people. Ngāpuhi this week told the Government to stand down. Our kōrero to you whānau is to stand up but be clear: do not get caught in the politics of distraction because we must stay focused on our own. It's going to take a revolution of minds to withstand what's coming. Conserve yourselves and together stay focused on exactly what it is that we're fighting. Our Te Tiriti is under threat. Time is important. Intention is important. Strategy is important. Energy is important. Stay well and look after each other because as we've said the next karanga will be big. That is why we're calling on the necessity for our own Pāremata because whānau mā this is not the way for our mokopuna to be living in Aotearoa. Te ngākau o te iwi whānau [The heart of the people family] that's one of our solutions and we must continue to push forward on what was truly intended by Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Kia ora rā. Hon BROOKE VAN VELDEN (Deputy Leader—ACT): Point of order Mr Speaker. I seek your guidance on what you would consider to be personal attacks. There were not names given in that speech and I didn't want to disrespect the member by interrupting her during her speech. However there were comments made about the individual characteristics of three members who lead a Government without their names specifically being mentioned—quite nasty characteristics—and I seek your judgment on whether those would be considered personal attacks under the Standing Orders. SPEAKER: I listened very intently to the speech that's just been given and I think you raise something that is contestable. It's my intention to have a look at it beyond this particular forum in light of what I had to say to the House yesterday. But I would make the point that if we go too far down this track then everybody's ability to speak freely will start to become curtailed so it can't be something that I'm going to leap to very quickly. I know that that see a pile of people sending me all sorts of instructive emails but I think that it's the right thing to do for the sake of the Parliament and for that ability for all members to speak freely and from the passionate positions that everyone in this House comes from. But I take the member's point and will obviously consider that."