Korako Nuk: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 01 April 2015. Volume:704;Page:2836. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. I stand to take the final call for the Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill in its second reading. I am not going to go over a lot of the history behind this bill and what has happened to date but I do want to just mention a couple of things particularly—I see that my friend on the other side New Zealand First’s Ron Mark has actually left the House—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! You cannot refer to members who are not present in the House.NUK KORAKO: My friend from New Zealand First has—Scott Simpson: Spoken.NUK KORAKO: —spoken and I just reiterate the fact that he really commended the Local Government and Environment Committee for its collegiality and the way it works very very closely together. Again we call that kotahitaka. It is a collective thing. I would like to invite him to come to the Māori Affairs Committee actually because we also work in a very very close collegial way. To date in the 51st Parliament we actually have not needed to take a vote. We do everything by consensus.Scott Simpson: And better kai.NUK KORAKO: And better kai. So just to make that first point.The next one is indeed to acknowledge the Hon Nicky Wagner. I do that as a colleague in Parliament but also as a member of the Ngāi Tahu iwi because we hold Nicky in very very high regard particularly because of a lot of the excellent work that Nicky does within Christchurch and particularly in regard to her relationship with tangata whenua and mana whenua. I also want to acknowledge Margaret Austin—her leadership in this and also when you think of the great things that Margaret has done particularly working on the World Heritage site in Tekapō. So again I acknowledge her and also André Lovatt—he has been mentioned before—and Jen Crawford.The reflection of this bill here and particularly the way that everyone has worked very very closely together epitomises a thing whereby out of the rubble of the rū whenua o Ōtautahi a phoenix is rising. This is a very very important reflection on what is happening and also on the fact that if we do things like this together in a collective way then we get these very very important solutions and things moving forward.The important thing too is to acknowledge my other colleagues our MPs from the Green Party—not just them actually but across the House—particularly around heritage buildings. Heritage buildings—absolutely in Christchurch there has been a lot of suffering. But what I also want to say is that if you go beyond that if you go beyond the colonial days the colonialism and if you think for just one moment about the effect that this had on tangata whenua—I am not talking about just the earthquake because we all suffered there. If we go back before that with the arrival of the Europeans what is interesting with this building is that when we were young kids coming to Christchurch from Tuahuriri in the northern part of the city this particular building we saw as an edifice to colonialism so we never visited it much. We were on our way as schoolkids to the museum to see our wonderful Māori artefacts that were inside there.What I am saying here is that this particular building when you look at the history of the city and all of that it really does actually now strike a chord with us in the fact that it is part of us because of the fact of what went on during the earthquake the rū whenua particularly in 2011.What I am saying here with this particular building with everything that has gone on again is that reflection that we are working together particularly when you look at the trust deed. The idea behind the resurrection of this building is pretty much when we talk about a phoenix rising from the rubble. We have great opportunities during the rebuild to not only rebuild our buildings but also to put in new ideas and to instil new parts of the way we actually manage and govern these buildings.This again is a reflection of the fact that we have re-established a legal foundation for the Arts Centre in Christchurch in statute but also the reforms here that this bill is doing. It reforms the governance arrangements by establishing a higher skills base. The important thing there too is the fact of why we actually now believe—the member of Parliament for Christchurch East referred to these buildings as taonga maunga or mauka. I would not go that far. I think that when you look at that when you relate to your mauka it is Maukatere in North Canterbury and when you look at your awa it is the Ōtākaro or the Ōpāwaho.If you come down from that esoteric look at the spirituality and all of that it is very much around the natural landscape. But I do concur with the member about the fact of the mana that this building does instil in all of us now more so because it survived in some ways the Christchurch earthquake. And we are all working together now to be able to rebuild it back to a more significant and a more well-managed building.When looking at the make-up of the new governance board I think the important thing is to look at the representation of the iwi particularly because of the fact that we have got the Ngāi Tahupapatipu rūnanga actually involved in that so there is a representative there. And if we look at the way that it is governed it is a fact that we can actually instil—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member. The time has come for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Tēnā koe e te Whare. Tēnā koutou te whānau o te Pāremata. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. Members when we broke for the dinner break we were—Hon Christopher Finlayson: Ross Robertson used to use Samoan and Tongan as well.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: —that will come cousin—debating the second reading of the Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill and matua Nuk Korako had 2 minutes remaining. So without a bell he has 2 minutes available to him should he wish to avail himself of that opportunity.NUK KORAKO: Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. A ka pai te kōrero Te Reo. Kia ora. Just to reiterate very quickly the fact that this bill was very much a collective across both sides of the House. This is particularly reflected in the very very close working relationship that we have with the Local Government and Environment Committee under the chairmanship of Scott Simpson.Just to finish off I was just finishing around the tangata whenua and also the relationship that tangata whenua have particularly now with the new governance board. They always have in some ways but it is just an acknowledgment again as within the bill it states that it is Papatipu Rūnanga of Waitaha or Canterbury. But we know that when you look at papatipu you are talking about tangata whenua but then it is understanding the faces of the iwi. Particularly when you talk about mana whenua it is actually about those people of the land particularly where the Arts Centre is which is Ngāi Tuahuriri. That does not have to be specific because iwi will actually take care of that themselves. So just to acknowledge that and also the fact that within this bill it does actually allow the factors where cultural considerations are taken into account. That is really part of the role of that tangata whenua and mana whenua representative.Finally from the damaged buildings and rubble is this unique opportunity to create a vibrant centre that will be the source of great pride for Christchurch and New Zealand. On that note I would like to commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.Bill read a second time.