Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare huri noa ki a koutou katoa; ki a koutou o Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa ngā uri ngā mokopuna tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Pai te kite i a koutou katoa i tēnei Whare Pāremata nā uru mai kia ora. Nei rā te mokopuna o Te Tai Tokerau o Ngāpuhi o Te Rarawa nā reira tēnā koutou ōku kaihana. Ā kia ora koutou katoa. He mihi anō ki a ia Te Minita ko Te Ururoa Flavell i tōna whakatau mai i tōna whakaminenga mai: kia ora koe.[Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker and to you all throughout; to you of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa to the descendants and grandchildren acknowledgments and salutations to you. It is nice to see you all in this House so come in hello. Here indeed is the grandchild of Northland and of Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa; hello there my cousins. Greetings indeed to you all. I also acknowledge the Minister Te Ururoa Flavell in terms of his formal welcome and prayer: thank you very much.]I rise certainly as an honour to be able to speak in the third reading of the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Claims Settlement Bill. It is not so much a pleasure I think as it is a question for all of us in this House and for the Crown to consider what our role is as representatives in this House of Representatives for iwi like Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa for the future of Treaty settlements and for the role of the Crown and to consider how we can do better in dealing with the historical raruraru the Crown has created—the wedging that its process has created—for our whānau and hapū and iwi. The question that I think has to be acknowledged is how we can rectify the historical injustice that has created so much of the raruraru today. When we feel love for everybody who is feeling both the mamae and the celebration of today and when we stand here as Māori members of Parliament and feel both the celebration and the acknowledgment of the years and years of hard mahi that has been done by our people—the people who have to bear the brunt and the burden and the future celebrations for all the work that has been done—where is the leadership and where is the ball in our court as the House of Representatives to really address the injustice and to really uphold a process that is not full and final? It is not full and final. Te Tiriti was never supposed to be full and final. It is an enduring enduring relationship to seek Treaty justice. I firstly want to make it very clear that I am here with aroha and admiration and respect for the raru and the difficulties and the leadership that Ngatikahu have displayed—that Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa have shown us. I am also here with a rumbling puku not just for Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa but for ongoing Treaty settlements that have happened and that are yet to happen—my goodness I am from Ngāpuhi. So you know how can we do better? How can the Crown which controls the timeliness or the time framework of the settlements and what the settlements look like and controls what is given back from what was stolen—it was stolen. We use words like extinguishing customary native title". We use words like "taking a little bit more than what was offered in the first place". Our whenua around the motu was stolen and in most of the cases the Crown lied to do it. My understanding from recent events is that our country is outraged by lying and thieving but apparently not when it comes to Tiriti settlements. So Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa and all of the hapū and iwi who have had to be a part of this process I salute you all. I salute you all for bearing the brunt of what the Crown has done to your people to your mokopuna—kei te haere mai. Today is not at all the end of anything. It is the start of hard roads and we wish you all the kaha—all the kaha. I think if we are asking ourselves as representatives of this House how we can do better we cannot overlook the historical accounts of what has happened. We cannot overlook—because this is why we are here—that the Crown created further disputes and wedged in writ our whānau and iwi and hapū. In its actions the Crown did that. For example when the Crown was meant to investigate the legitimacy of transactions in the 1840s that had happened within the Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa rohe in most cases it failed to do that. It set up some seedy deals. The Crown set up some seedy deals to get its hand on whenua and purposefully and intentionally it did not investigate the raru that was created from those seedy deals. Clause 8 of the bill says: "In the 1850s the Crown investigated some Mangonui land claims but did not investigate others. Though Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa occupied many of these blocks the Crown failed to adequately consider their customary interests." It did not fail; it was a proactive decision. Let us be very clear about that. I have talked previously about extinguishing customary title. Clause 8 says: "The Crown considered all customary title was extinguished if a land commissioner confirmed the transaction. It assumed ownership"—it assumed ownership; that is called stealing land—"of an estimated 11 000 acres of Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa ancestral lands through its 'surplus' land policy." It assumed ownership. I am pleased to see that the bill outlines—that was a small little smidgeon of what has happened historically to Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa including what happened with Stony Creek and Ngāti Aukiwa. I acknowledge Ngāti Aukiwa and I acknowledge the raru that has been there for a long time. The Greens are very clear that these settlements should not be full and final. We are very clear that we must undertake a comprehensive review of Te Tiriti in Treaty settlement processes. We are very clear for example that when we say that iwi have the right of first refusal it should mean the right of first refusal not second or third. The Green Party is very clear that we should allow settlements to be revisited where situations have changed or claimants have been shut out of original negotiations and once again we are very clear that Treaty settlements should not be full and final. We are also concerned—and this I think goes to the heart of this particular settlement—that claims should be settled with the definition term "large natural groupings". This goes to the very heart of the raru in this settlement and most other settlements. That is a Crown power definition. That is how the Crown upholds its definition and its power—through choosing whom it gets to settle with. In my final mihi to you Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa I say that at the third readings we often I think feel like this is our lot here in this House. It should never be. We should be responsible. The Crown should remain responsible for seeking and ensuring that justice happens for Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa for all the hapū and iwi concerned and for generations to come. I look forward when the real leadership can come from this House when we can maintain our journey—the Crown's journey—to uphold its end of the bargain. Kia koutou katoa."