Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Tēnā tātou ōku hoa kaimahi i tēnei Whare Pāremata.[Good morning Madam Speaker and greetings to all my colleagues in this the House of Representatives.]I'm really honoured to rise today—my first like everyone's speech in the House for the year. I echo my co-leader and colleague James Shaw in his earlier address today in that it's really clear that a strong Green Party voice in Parliament and also in our ministerial work is absolutely essential to protect our strong climate for generations to come; to protect our natural world and our living system which we absolutely depend on; and to make sure that we are taking proper care of our people and communities and especially those who are struggling the most.What it is appropriate—having had Waitangi Day just a couple of days ago—for me to say is that key to achieving those clear Green Party priorities of climate and equality and nature is finally realising and upholding the justice and the mana of Te Tiriti in the way that all of our tūpuna envisaged that to be and especially our tangata whenua chiefs and rangatira of iwi and hapū who signed our Treaty to uphold the mana motuhake and the tino rangatiratanga of our hapū over our lands and our peoples and our resources for ever for as long as we determine we want to do that. That continues today.Tiriti justice requires a sharing of power that we have not yet seen ever in the almost 200 years since the Treaty was signed. In all of the speeches of my colleagues here in the House—and this is a response to the Prime Minister's statement where she outlined the many challenges that are facing us that we are all concerned with today—it is for those very challenges it is for those very challenges that I was proud to launch yesterday the Green Party's Hoki Whenua Mai a policy proposal which discusses how we can give land back whenua back to tangata whenua. The proposals are not just about giving whenua back to tangata whenua via a Crown-facilitated process that allows that that ensures that that can happen but we know that upholding the mana and the tino rangatiratanga of Te Tiriti is how we can work towards a more equitable Aotearoa for everyone. It is the current system it is the current processes of making decisions in our country which are not Tiriti-led. It is that current system which is unfair for many other people. It is a Tiriti process which offers us the most inclusive most dignity-enhancing way of being able to realise everyone's mana everyone's integrity everyone's dignity.Hoki Whenua Mai—I am so proud that I think it was within the very day since announcing it yesterday we are already seeing Pākehā and tauiwi coming to us saying Yes. I would like to be on a register of lands where our land where our land that I have benefited from and my family has benefited from and generations could be offered first back to tangata whenua." We ourselves weren't even expecting that much of a quick response. But we can see that people are ready to do the right thing because first and foremost Aotearoa could be a leading country in the world upholding the sovereignty and mana motuhake of its indigenous peoples. Nowhere in the world has that contract has that understanding been upheld properly and we could first and foremost do the right thing and actually honour that.But Hoki Whenua Mai will also lead to the better outcomes that we know are good for everyone for long-term enduring kaitiaki responsibilities to be upheld where our climate is far better protected for the generations to come where people absolutely have homes and kai and what they need to live dignified lives where we understand and have a far better relationship with our living system with our living world around us.Hoki Whenua Mai is about transforming the current oppressive power structure which has denied communities and iwi and tangata whenua power for ever which has led to the harmful generational impacts that we are all now concerned with today whether it's because Māori are featuring disproportionately in the area of housing whether it's because Māori are featuring disproportionately in those who are struggling the most when it comes to income justice and income equity or health or justice or education. Land Back—Hoki Whenua Mai—is about a transformational shift that picks up on one of the most single aspirations of tangata whenua and indigenous people around the world which is to have land that was stolen returned which is to have kaitiaki responsibilities upheld where we can look after our people and our planet. That is what Hoki Whenua Mai is about.I am so proud that our Te Mātāwaka MPs which are the Māori and Pasifika and Tiriti MPs which form a collective within the Green Party to lead on Māori political issues have put this out collectively. I acknowledge my colleague Dr Elizabeth Kerekere the chair of our Mātāwaka caucus who has helped to drive this to get this out to the conversation that we saw yesterday. I am so proud to be able to present for decades what our people have been talking about. People have dedicated their entire lives to seeing land back. People have dedicated their entire generations of families to this work. The Green Party has a role to simply now say "This is how we do it." We have had enough of the talking. This is actually how the Government gives the land back that it was responsible for dispossessing from us in the very first place. That is our role as the Green Party is to put those visionary ideas and proposals—and we did the policy work—on the table. Already we are seeing the positivity being grabbed by both Māori and Tiriti partners and tauiwi from all variety of backgrounds saying "This is tangible. This is real. It's not just a pipe dream. It wasn't just a catchcry. It's not just a catchcry from all around the world. It's actually something that can happen."In our proposals we have outlined a number of very doable ways where it involves revisiting and making sure that our process of inquiry into land dispossession is actually brought together that we have a proper inquiry into the real extent of land that was taken and its value—not just its fiscal value but its generational value—where we make sure we are revisiting settlements to ensure that they were adequate. One of the examples that was raised to us is where tracts of land have been included in settlements that have not been the most robust pieces of land where coastal communities have to now rethink whether those pieces of land are now going to be at the threat and risk of climate change where we include having a look about how just those settlements actually were.We also know that Te Tiriti was never supposed to be settled; it is supposed to be an enduring honest partnership honest relationship between Crown and tangata whenua. We have put up that there should be additional redress at the hapū and whānau level. For far too long even with acknowledging every single Treaty negotiator who has given life and blood to get the best that they possibly can get for their people we know that it is the system that has kept the settlements and those claims miniscule absolutely unjust and that that settlement process has continued to see breaches of Te Tiriti.So we know that we can do better and especially getting the long-term enduring benefits to hapū and whānau which is one of the biggest things that the settlement continues to create that harm that ongoing harm is the large natural groupings and the full and final clause is an ongoing breach of what our tūpuna who signed envisaged for us to live in true harmonious relationship here in Aotearoa. We want to see a Government fund that can enable the facilitation of that land back. As I said we're already seeing Pākehā saying "Yes we would like to go on that register." 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