Marcroft JennyJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. E tū ake ana au kei raro i te korowai aroha o ōku tupuna. I stand here embraced in the loving korowai of my ancestors as it is an honour today for me to speak on behalf of New Zealand First on the second reading of Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka / Parihaka Reconciliation Bill. It is a pleasure as I have mentioned and it is an honour indeed to welcome you here again to Parliament as it was an absolute honour for me to join the Māori Affairs Committee back in May 2018 as you welcomed us to your place so we could hear your stories. It was an overcast day. It was a little drizzly. We went on a wonderful drive as we drove around the coast past the maunga on the left and came to Parihaka and it was the first time that I'd been to Taranaki and gone that way around the maunga. So for me it was like a new journey.I have a lovely connection with Taranaki. My grandmother grew up in Kaponga. My sister lives down on the coast as well on a farm and we often go and collect pāua so I'm very familiar with the bounty of your moana and I thank you for that. I was just there at Easter and we collected enough pāua for a very good kai for the family so that's something I know is a prize in that area.The Parihaka story takes us to a time when the greed for land was far greater than the recognition of our tangata whenua. The greed for land was so all-consuming that the people perished. The children the wāhine the men and the land itself perished under that obsession. But today we can look in hope to the future as we acknowledge the wrongdoings of the Crown and acknowledge you and restore your mana. I'm really honoured to be a tiny part of that process.Part of the Māori Affairs Committee for me was a little bit like a coming home. The committee—we operate in a slightly different way to other committees in Parliament. We work very much in a collaborative way. We have the best kai ever so it is quite disappointing to me that I'm no longer on that committee but I was there for the opportunity to go and hear your stories which I will talk to in just a moment. I note that there was a year's delay since we went to visit you and before we finally get to this second reading. Hearing your aspirations was very uplifting so I'd just like to acknowledge today the whānau of Parihaka that are here and also too the Minister the Hon Kelvin Davis as he talked about the legal legacy statement and also the Crown apology.I would like to focus a little bit of my contribution today on the protection of the name Parihaka and it is a start as the Minister announced. For me hearing from the Parihaka Papakāinga Trust and hearing about why you want your name protected—to me it makes absolute sense. The Parihaka Papakāinga Trust requested that Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka / Parihaka Reconciliation Bill be amended to include acknowledgements of the importance of Parihaka acknowledgments of the importance of Tohu and Te Whiti and that there be appropriate legal mechanisms such as intellectual property provisions and intellectual property protections for the name Parihaka for the name Tohu as well as Te Whiti and for the history of Parihaka and the legacy statement. I am pleased to hear that the protection of the name Parihaka is part of this bill now.Currently there's some filming under way. Mihingarangi Forbes is currently filming a documentary The Stories of Taranaki and that will be edited shortly and will have its debut on 28 October in Taranaki—so very much looking forward to having your story interwoven into The Stories of Taranaki for us to have captured on film. They've just been filming last week the drama The Re-enactments. They're going into the augmented reality phase where they rebuild the pā and that will all get edited soon and I'm very much looking forward to seeing that documentary because I think it's important not just that we tell our stories but that for future generations we can also recreate the past so they can see it as well.The bill includes some parts of the apology that need to be legislated and also recommends protecting the name from commercial exploitation. So this bill will mean no person may without a written authorisation from the trust carry on trade activities under the names and concepts associated with Parihaka.Another couple of submissions that we heard in May last year was that they would like 5 November—Guy Fawkes Day—to actually be renamed; so no longer call it Guy Fawkes Day" but call it "Parihaka Day". I was very interested to hear about that because they believe that Parihaka is a place where they feel safe and like many before us Parihaka is our place of refuge—a place where we know we belong feel safe and are cared for and that was a submission from one whānau. Another submission by Dr Heather Devere the Director of Practice of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Otago actually also recommended renaming Guy Fawkes Day as Parihaka Day.So we had a various amount of submissions; 23 we heard from including one which was really making a fiscal observation that the $9 million associated with this bill really was a bit poor considering the various bailouts that have gone on before—$500 million for AMI the South Canterbury Finance bailout to a very large tune—and in light of those bailouts the submitter felt that $9 million for destroying a thriving Māori community for stealing their land for imprisoning their men without trial and for raping their women seems absolutely pathetic. So I would just like that noted: that that is from one of the submitters to this bill.I'd also like to mention art. I'm quite a passionate friend of the arts and I only just realised recently that the well-known New Zealand artist Colin McCahon has actually done a painting "Monuments to Te Whiti and to Tohu" and that's from the 1972 "Necessary Protection" series. So I think it's really interesting that throughout our history in New Zealand we have tried to capture the story of Parihaka in many different ways and to have a notable New Zealand artist acknowledge part of the story of Parihaka I think is something significant and it would be good to see those paintings which are often stored in collections maybe come to your home area more regularly so they can be shown and viewed by the public.In conclusion etched in the pages of history Te Whiti and Tohu the gospel of pacifism and the prophecy of Parihaka the vision of the albatross that swept down the feather that fluttered to the ground—the raukura a tohu a prophecy of peace—this unique symbol of the white raukura the white feather and the background the pakō pakō pakō the drumbeat of the poi becoming the beating of the heart of the people of Parihaka. The poi will be a symbol through the documentary that is currently being made and I'd like to make note of that so that when we do get to watch the film we will know that drumbeat of the poi and the significance it has for the people of Parihaka.Ko Taranaki maunga muruhia. Taranaki mountain confiscated. Ko Taranaki whenua muruhia. Taranaki land confiscated. Ko Taranaki moana muruhia. Taranaki seas confiscated. Ko Taranaki tangata e tū tonu nei. Tihei mauri ora. Taranaki mana still stands firm. Tihei mauri ora!"