Waititi Rawiri; Dean JacquiRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā tātau tēnā koutou e te Paati Reipa i homaihia tēnei rima miniti ki au ki te Paati Māori ki te tuku atu i ngā korero kei runga ō mātou ngakau i tēnei wā nō reira mihi nui ki a koutou.E Kiritapu ko koe tērā e matakitaki mai rā i tō wā kainga ka tiki ake au i ngā kōrero kei roto i te pae pera tapu i a Hone nāna i kī nei kei roto i te pouri te māramatanga e whiti ana.Ka pērā pea taku korero ki a koe me te mea hoki ka tiki atu au i ngā korero a ngā matua tūpuna he wahine he whenua ka mate te tangata he wahine he whenua ka ora hoki te tangata nō reira kia kaha ki a koe kia maia kia manawa nui.Koinei hoki te mihi hangai tō ki a koe i tēnei ahiahi.[Greetings everyone thank you Labour Party for allowing me the Māori Party this five minutes to express what we feel right now. Thank you.Kiritapu you are sitting and watching this from home. Allow me to make reference to the Bible to John who said Within the night there is always light shining."That may be what I have to say to you. Also I would like to reference our forefathers who said "Through woman and land our people perish but through woman and land our people also thrive." And so be strong be confident and be compassionate.These are my kind sincere words to you this afternoon.]This whole debate focused on Kiritapu and the Government to me is a very narrow-minded debate. Instead what we should be debating is the institution of Parliament that continues to uphold a misogynistic culture that was imposed by British men. Everyone sitting in this House is responsible for upholding that culture. Suddenly everyone here has turned into mental health professionals when this is the very institution and the very people that choose every day to create mental unwellness amongst our people.Kiritapu Allan is only one casualty among a long line of people who have suffered from the misogyny of this Parliament—especially our wāhine Māori: Alamein Kopu Georgina te Heuheu Metiria Turei Claudette Hauiti Nanaia Mahuta Marama Davidson Meka Whaitiri Louisa Wall and now Kiritapu Allan. This place is unsafe—more so for Māori and more so again for wāhine Māori. The record shows for itself that the rules and traditions of this place perpetuate an unsafe culture. This place is makariri—which means "cold" Mr Brownlee. It is void in spirit and this affects Māori more than anyone else in the House. Why? It's because it was built with the aspirations of ridding Aotearoa of its indigenous people through subjugation and assimilation.It is our responsibility—every one of you here—to do better to challenge the very institution of this House that perpetuates misogyny and racism. How do we do that? Through constitutional transformation. We've been very clear about constitutional transformation—Te Paati Māori has policies based on it. The Matike Mai report shows a way we could do that to ensure that is a Tiriti-centric Aotearoa a system that is based on Te Tiriti a system that allows tikanga Māori to be part of any political system here in Aotearoa. Our Aotearoa hou shows that. What does an Aotearoa hou look like? It looks like how we would treat you on the marae. This is the way Kiritapu Allan and all these other wāhine Māori and all of us here in this room—none of us exclusive of this—would be welcome to an Aotearoa hou. What does that look like? It looks like how we would treat you on our marae. We will welcome you. We will feed you. We will house you. We will care for you. We will love you. That's the type of system we should be looking at.This is not about an isolated case of Kiritapu Allan—kāo. This is about ensuring that this is a safe place for everyone that this is a safe place for minorities that this is a safe place for tangata whenua that this is a safe place for tangata Tiriti that this is a safe place for wāhine Māori. The record shows that it has not been a safe place for our wāhine Māori. I named a whole raft of wahine Māori that had been affected by the Westminster system that has been imposed on us here in Aotearoa.So our challenge is to everyone here. This is an opportunity for us to start to look at a system that is more accepting—that is more accepting that is more Tiriti-centric and that builds an Aotearoa hou.So in saying that ki taku tuahine e Kiritapu kia kaha ki a koe he wahine Māori koe he tangata whenua koe kauaka rawa e tukuna tētahi kia tuarua koe ki runga i tā tātou whenua me nama tahi tātou i ngā wā katoa. Madam Speaker e te Whare ngā mihi ki a tātou katoa tēnā tātou. Kia ora tātou.[To my sister Kiritapu may you be strong you are wahine Māori. You are people of the land. Don't allow anybody to say you are minority on our own land. We are number one always. Madam Speaker the House acknowledgments to us all thank you all.] ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Vanushi Walters—five-minute call."