Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Ngā mihi ki a koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare huri noa ki ōku hoa mahi o tēnei Whare Pāremata tēnā tātou katoa. Ka huri ki Ngāti Tamaoho i tēnei rā whakahirahira tēnā koutou.[Acknowledgments to you Mr Assistant Speaker and to my work colleagues of this House throughout salutations to us all. I turn to Ngāti Tamaoho on this highly important day greetings to you collectively.]It is an incredible honour as always to speak on the Treaty settlement bills—in this case the Ngāti Tamaoho Claims Settlement Bill. As our representative on the Māori Affairs Committee it is always an honour to go through these Treaty settlement processes in terms of learning what has happened to our people around the motu. In this the first reading of the Ngāti Tamaoho Claims Settlement Bill I want to focus particularly on what has happened to Ngāti Tamaoho—how the Crown the community and society has responded and reacted to Ngāti Tamaoho and what that means for Ngāti Tamaoho and the wider implications on Te Iwi Māori today.As always the Green Party understands that treaties as Moana Jackson says are to be honoured and not settled and that the relationship is an ongoing process seeking justice. This is about seeking honour and peace and that we cannot begin to do that until we truly rectify what has happened to these people. We understand that Treaty settlements rectify only a small part of what has happened. There is so much in this history of what has happened to Ngāti Tamaoho and I am standing particularly proudly as a long-time resident of South Auckland and a long-time resident of South Auckland who has often visited the different territories of Auckland that Ngāti Tamaoho have mana whenua over alongside the other Tāmaki iwi collective. What I will support alongside my colleague Catherine Delahunty through all of these Treaty settlements is the need to review the whole entire process. I am picking up particularly on how Ngāti Pūkenga highlighted the right of first refusal and how it is actually not a right of first refusal in the legislation. I am wondering how that pertains to every single Treaty settlement including all of the ones before us and Ngāti Tamaoho.I will start now on the history and give my gratitude for and understanding of Ngāti Tamaoho being at the front line of the invasion into the Waikato rohe what they have come to bear and how they were responded to by being at that front line of active resistance into their rohe. I want to acknowledge Minister Finlayson for putting into the history books the historical account that reignites the story of that invasion and puts the resistance by Ngāti Tamaoho into our Crown records. It is always something that I reflect on when we go through these historical accounts. I wish our country I wish every single tamaiti in school and I wish our adults and our communities had a deep understanding of what has happened and how that has shaped our Māori communities today.There are so many important points in the historical summary. I guess I will reiterate that after the Waikato Wars the Crown considered the majority of Ngāti Tamaoho ineligible for compensation. The Crown made small land grants and payments to one loyal Ngāti Tamaoho rangatira—Catherine Delahunty: Ha! Loyal".MARAMA DAVIDSON: —"loyal"—and set aside three reserves from a Crown purchase for the few Ngāti Tamaoho people whom the Crown considered had not been in rebellion. So all of that and many other actions of the Crown led down to the fact that by 1900 Ngāti Tamaoho were virtually landless. I do just want to make a quick contribution about what being landless actually means for us today. Many of us do not have the biggest understanding of whether we are even owners of land. We actually do not know what is happening with the land that we may have whakapapa connection to. That notion of being virtually landless has certainly happened to Ngāti Tamaoho and the impacts are generational and profound and they manifest themselves today in terms of our wealth—our wealth as iwi Māori our wealth our cultural wealth our whakapapa wealth and our ability to stand on our tūrangawaewae with pride and connection.So I really want to focus on the notion of Ngāti Tamaoho being virtually landless by 1900. This is in contrast with some of those lands that they have mana whenua responsibilities over. I love learning in these historical accounts about what has happened and it is also saddening. But I was really interested in the fact that after Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed in 1840 Ngāti Tamaoho continued to seek new economic opportunities by selling land to the Crown and that Ngāti Tamaoho rangatira also sold land in Remuera directly to Pākehā. It was part of the Crown temporarily waiving the pre-emption clauses. But with those pre-emption sales those understandings of those pre-emption - waiver sales the Crown was supposed to ensure that one-tenth of those pre-emption - waiver sales would be retained for public purposes. That was the understanding and the expectation from iwi and from Ngāti Tamaoho.I raise that specifically in reference to the land in Remuera and all around Auckland the heart of so much vibrancy and the contributions from Auckland to the rest of the country that this House certainly upholds and refers to all the time—the importance of Auckland its location and the transactions that go through it and go from it and come into it. We know that in this House. It is incredibly interesting for me to learn alongside all the other Tāmaki-makau-rau iwi about the transactions and the mana whenua responsibilities that Ngāti Tamaoho have.It does not always align for Māori. Being in Auckland as a bustling vibrant contributing part of our country Māori have not seen the benefits of that necessarily and not collectively. We know this in terms of housing imprisonment education health and employment. Yet iwi like Ngāti Tamaoho and other Tāmaki iwi have so generously fought with dignity and honour to uphold that responsibility without receiving the collective benefits. So as an Auckland resident and a South Auckland resident I did want to particularly focus on that aspect of this settlement—the contribution that Ngāti Tamaoho have made and the lack of benefits that Ngāti Tamaoho have seen over generations.I want to end my contribution by picking up on the incredible acknowledgments that we must make in this House to Dame Ngāneko Minhinnick because she also received that award on the very same day as my father. I was very honoured to be there for her when she received that award for her work in bringing kaitiaki into the thinking of conservation and the effect it has had on our other collective iwi claims and our work on kaitiaki. In particular to Ngāti Tamaoho as well because of the wetlands that Ngāti Tamaoho are connected to and the fact that across the country—I think it is 90 percent. We have lost 90 percent of our wetlands and Ngāti Tamaoho would have been able to make an incredible difference if they had exercised that very kaitiaki responsibility that they lost.So again it is an honour and a privilege to be learning about the history and the contribution that Ngāti Tamaoho have made and the responses that they face. I hope we all continue to review this process of seeking real justice and peace. Settlements are to be honoured. Kia ora."