Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm quite inspired by Willie Jackson the last speaker but also grateful that he ran out of time because he was running out of political parties to criticise and I recognised that I was the next on the list. But auē taukuri ē! I looked out of the windows just yesterday and I had been noticing it around the country that there have been a large number of anti-vax protests and lockdown protests and people that are influenced in that particular direction. I have seen them show up with tino rangatiratanga flags I have seen them show up with whakaputanga flags—SPEAKER: Yeah sometimes upside down. TEANAU TUIONO: —and sometimes they're upside down. Well they were on your forecourt so you would have recognised them being upside down. It's a lot of emotions. It's sad and it's contemplative but there's also a saying which is kei te puku te rae"—which means that the brow is furrowed with anger because it is through the lack of information and the lack of knowledge of our history that people are participating in those protests. It was deeply ironic to see the tino rangatiratanga flag next to the Trump flag and next to the other kinds of flags as well recognising that people do not understand that actually there is a really strong and proud history of those flags. When people talk about mana motuhake and when people talk about tino rangatiratanga those are collective rights. They are not the individual rights and of course individual rights are important in bodily autonomy and all those sorts of things but we should not be confusing them with the right to self-determination and the collective rights of whānau hapū and iwi. It also takes away from the struggles of people that are doing the hard yards on the ground and I'm recognising the massive hīkois that have happened in the past as well. I thought it was deeply ironic that when one of those car hīkois showed up up north and they were accusing Hone Harawira of being a kūpapa and being out of touch and then of course they were doing the same to people like Tame Iti and doing the same to other people who have for a very very long time held up the kaupapa for honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi honouring tino rangatiratanga and of course honouring mana motuhake. But yesterday what was happening outside wasn't the only thing that was shocking to me as well. Yesterday in response to the ongoing commitment to protect Pūtiki Bay from development since 9 March this year the developers Kennedy Point Boatharbour Ltd (KPBL) have issued an injunction trespassing 32 members of Ngāti Paoa and the Waiheke community not only from their so-called construction area but 20 metres beyond it—32 members including a 16-year-old. So at one stage we have a number of anti-vax protesters who seem to be running around holding up our flags upside down when you have protectors who are protecting the whenua and protecting the ocean and recognising those connections walking in the footsteps of the occupations of the past and I want to acknowledge Ihumātao I want to acknowledge Pākaitore I want to acknowledge Whāingaroa and I want to acknowledge Takaparawhā—all of those lessons—and these protesters have been walking in those footsteps as well. To have an injunction put on them is deeply disconnected from the history of the struggle. Regardless of this the Pūtiki and the Waiheke community have continued to keep their presence at Pūtiki Bay observing on land and on the water outside of the construction zone. To date KPBL are eight months behind in the construction of the proposed marina thanks to the combined efforts of Ngāti Paoa the Waiheke community and allies nationally and internationally. We also understand that the cops have a unit on standby for Pūtiki. They seem to be able to find the resources to monitor land and sea protectors but not for the anti-vax protests. The most recent injunction that has been done was done under the guise of urgency because the COVID restrictions are lifting and that is also deeply ironic. A couple of months ago protectors at the occupation at Pūtiki had organised their bubble as well and the police had interrupted that bubble—over 20 police—when what they should have been doing was directing that resource to lock down protesters and anti-vaxxers. So I would say that the Green Party will always walk with those that stand up for that connection between the people and the environment with the community pushing back against power because that is how I see it. I see that the police and the authorities are siding on to the side of power in the same way that the people outside that are misguided think they are siding with power but in some ways they seem to be getting a hallway pass. So I would ask us to stop giving hallway passes to anti-vaxxers and start helping to support protectors—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired. I'm going to call Marja Lubeck but I am going to sort of remind Mark Mitchell that we do have a speaking list and a speaking order agreed for the general debate. I know he is really anxious to talk having spent some time away but keeping his mask on rather than taking it off in anticipation I think four times is a probably a bit excessive."