Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): I rise to take this short call on behalf of the Greens and firstly I wanted to acknowledge the connection between tangata moana and tangata whenua and acknowledge that though our islands are many waves there is but one ocean. I want to acknowledge all Pacific peoples both past and present who have come here for better employment and for educational opportunities—that's whether they travelled here in the 1950s 1960s or 1970s or are going to get off that plane next week to pick fruit as part of the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme.I want to remind this House that Pacific peoples when they come to this land they have aspirations—aspirations of hope. As I was reflecting on this I came across this poem by the poet Karlo Mila and she said We have all travelled through the bodies of many relatives to be here all of us wearing those who have passed fresh on our faces. We are the next wave of a tide that has been coming for a long time. Let us follow the ocean roads that lead us via the stars to the expansions of each other. If we make mistakes on the shore let us rectify this in the deep ocean. Let us steer through the storms for our leaders have always been determined on the high seas."I was privileged to be in the town hall and to actually feel the emotion. The soundscape—actually even though at the time of the Dawn Raids I was but a child when we heard the soundscape of police dogs and people crashing through doors it actually reminded me of South Auckland in the 1990s. So I think it's really important for us to not compartmentalise the time of the Dawn Raids. It wasn't like racism started with the Dawn Raids; it was there before the Dawn Raids and it continued after the Dawn Raids. I do support the education perspective of the Dawn Raids. It's really really important and I'm mindful of the saying that "The struggle against powers is the struggle of remembering against forgetting" and so making sure that this stuff is locked into the curriculum is I think an essential part of doing the right thing. I don't think it should be voluntary because the one thing I know about New Zealand is if it's uncomfortable it gets swept under the carpet—and that should go with all parts of our history that are uncomfortable whether it's the Land Wars whether it is what happened in Samoa in terms of the Mau movement and it must also happen with the Dawn Raids. The speech that resonated with me the most at the town hall apology was the Tongan Princess Mele Siuʻilikutapu when she talked about the vā needing to be good between the islands and here within us in Aotearoa. She leaned into the need to fix our broken immigration system—fix this immigration system. The Dawn Raids were about overstayers—well we're going through a COVID crisis and we still have many of our people who have been caught up in the cracks of that. Many of those people also are our essential workers who have carried us through this pandemic. These are more than just workers. They are brothers and sisters and uncles and aunties. They are family and that's why it is really important for this apology to be truly meaningful that we have a broad amnesty programme for people who overstay and also real pathways for residency. I look forward to that corner of the House supporting that call on behalf of our peoples. These things get brought to our attention because communities get together. They get together to organise. They get together to get to know each other. They cross over all those different lines as well. I want to reflect on and remember those people that came together to push back against the Dawn Raids. I'm talking about our Pacific Island leaders of course; our church communities; groups like Ngā Tamatoa; anti-racist organisations such as the Citizens Association for Racial Equality or CARE and the Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination—ACORD—and of course the Polynesian Panthers. They remind us that when we get organised in the spirit of solidarity across difference and diversity and across our different communities we remember collectively that the power of the people is always stronger than the people in power. All power to the people. Meitaki ranuinui."