Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. It's a pleasure to be taking a call today and I just want to acknowledge the last speaker Adrian Rurawhe and those that have already spoken today. It is a very emotional day. It's a very emotional day for me as someone who grew up in Taranaki in the town of Ōpunake and went to school with a number of people who were from Parihaka. Pungarehu's very closely associated with Opunake High School and for me it's also feeling that shame of the past that the Hon Chris Finlayson talked about before in that Jim Bolger and others live not very far and I also live not very far away. You know we grew up not knowing what went on at Parihaka. We knew there was something that had happened there but it was something that was very seldom ever talked about and that is a very sad situation that our country got ourselves into.It was very enlightening for me to be able—I've been at Parihaka a number of times and I was there on a date recently in 2017 with a group of about 50 people from the Rotary clubs from the southern North Island and I was there with Whare and some of the others. We sat down and we watched the movie we shared some food and we had some conversations and all of those people were so enlightened. They said everyone in New Zealand should have the opportunity to watch that movie to hear that story and to be part of it. There are so many sad things in that story. You know we've heard today—and we don't want to touch on all the sad things but there is the imprisoning there's the rape. People were in prison for their participation in the ploughing and fencing campaigns. I mean you know it's just hard to imagine. We were given this basket. I was also there on the day when the Hon Chris Finlayson and the Hon Andrew Little and many others came to Parihaka to sign the documentation and this is a gift that we were given on that day which lives with me here in Wellington. On the side here is the albatross feather raukura—sorry if I don't pronounce this right—and I just want to acknowledge what Adrian Rurawhe said before about the renouncing of rage hatred and violence. This is a symbol of solidarity and commitment to non-violence and mutual recognition of mana in resolving conflict as a foundation for sustained peace. I think it's very important that we in this House as Adrian said look to follow those values in New Zealand—something that was set up a long time ago through the people of Parihaka who can be very proud of what they've achieved at this point in time. It is a big ask for forgiveness and there's a lot of deep hurt and a lot of deep feelings going back in history but we all give you a lot of credibility for taking this apology and taking it forward. It's been very hard for all of you.One thing I would like to say just to lighten things up—I know that the Hon Chris Finlayson mentioned before being mad at some point in time when he realised that Parihaka was going to be singled out. I just think that probably over time the Hon Chris Finlayson realised that in Taranaki we are very parochial and sometimes in Taranaki we do things a little differently and that's fine too. So just again wanting to acknowledge everybody that's come to Parliament today—it is an emotional day but it's a very happy day and it's a day where we can continue to put the hurts of the past behind us and learn to work together as a country far better than we have in the past. Kia ora. Thank you.