Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Mālō ni Mr Speaker. I just wanted to acknowledge that it is Tokelau Language Week—Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau. The theme for this year is: Tapui tau gagana ma tau aganuku i te manaola ma te lautupuola which means Tokelau! Preserve your language and culture to enhance spiritual and physical wellbeing." So first of all I'd like to acknowledge all of our indigenous people's communities that are on the front lines of climate change and our whānau in Tokelau are definitely that as well—but also our indigenous relatives that are also in rainforests as well.Like many things in this House it starts with a report. I happened to come across this report here which was published by Greenpeace Indonesia which is entitled Deceased Estate: Illegal palm oil wiping out Indonesia's national forest. It revealed that illegal palm oil plantations have been destroying protected Indonesian rain forests and other habitats and New Zealand's industrial dairy sector is a major beneficiary.Palm kernel expeller—or PKE—is a product of the palm oil industry. Since 2008 Fonterra has partnered with food producer Wilmar International which under the Agrifeeds brand imports PKE as a supplementary for dairy cattle. A lot of environmentalists are really concerned about PKE because it encourages intensive dairying and then of course the runoff effects into our rivers and so on and so forth as well. I just picked this up as well which says "Canterbury ANZCO feedlot faces inspection". And it has a really shocking picture of a whole lot of cows crowded on a muddy field. They are not eating grass; they are clearly eating some sort of supplementary feed like PKE.This report really stuck out for me because I'd been there. I've been to the Borneo jungle. I was there about 15 years ago as part of a UN capacity-building project. If people had seen what I'd seen they'd be truly shocked to look at it from that other dimension. PKE does cause intensive dairying. There is all that runoff into our rivers as well. We often get really focused on the domestic impacts but there are international impacts as well. One of the things that still pops up in my memory is: as we were flying on one of those really really small planes—and it was a recently built plane because previously you'd have to travel for weeks by river in order to actually get right into the highlands where I was travelling—and as we flew over you could see the palm oil plantations. It was like they had mowed over the rainforests. And in that place there were these palm oil plantations where indigenous peoples used to live where orangutan used to live where all sorts of other wildlife used to live—life that has been there for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.Often we try to think of this stuff as over there but there are actual connections as well. I remember sitting in the longhouse talking with some of the elders and reflecting on "Hey you've got a longhouse back in Aotearoa Zealand." Māori we have a big house. Noticing and looking at some of their patterns they reminded me of whakairo on wharenui. But also as I was sitting around the fire eating one night somebody came out and talked to me and they said "Hey we heard there's a Māori within this group. Is there a Māori there?" And that happened to be me. He goes: "Our uncle wants to talk to you." And I said "OK. Fine." So I'm sitting there and this uncle walks out of the forest and they had a translator and they were like: "Hey many many years ago there were soldiers that were in this forest—and our uncle he was their guide for them and they sung him this song and for all of those years for decades and decades and decades he had no idea what this song was." So I said "Oh OK. Well I'll do my best." So they sang me that song and that song was "Pokarekare Ana". So this kaumātua had been waiting since I think 1964 for some random Māori—me—to show up in the forest and actually translate that song for him. So the point of that in terms of this debate is that things are all connected—things are all connected. Just because something happens here it shows up in a packet it doesn't mean that it doesn't have an impact somewhere else; it does have an impact. PKE is having a devastating impact on indigenous peoples and wildlife in the Borneo jungle. The way that we can really step into supporting indigenous peoples—recognising that we are a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is encouraging for one thing stopping the import of PKE but also looking to support the indigenous people's communities who are deeply impacted by palm oil plantations in the Borneo jungle. Let's not just look at the impacts here—and they are dire in terms of climate change; in terms of biodiversity loss; and of course looking at this picture here animal welfare itself—but also the impacts on indigenous people's communities in places like Indonesia—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired!"