Flavell Te UruroaHon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. Titiro titiro ki Te Maunga Titōhea runga o Parihaka Waitoto-roa nā ki Moea-u Ngāti Haupoto! Ko te tākiritanga i Te Kahu o Wikitōria ā kaitoa! Ko Tohu ko Te Whiti ngā manu e rua i patu te hoariri ki te rangimārie kss auē kss auē! Ahakoa te pāhuatanga o Parihaka uē uē uē hā!" Kia ora tātau katoa! Te āhuatanga o tērā waiata he whakatau i te āhuatanga o Parihaka ka tahi o te ekenga o te hōia o te rangimāria ahakoa ngā pēhitanga ki runga o Taranaki whānui tonu. Nō reira ka whakairia tērā kōrero ki te pakitara ā-Whare hei tīmatanga kōrero māku i tēnei ahiahi. Kua riro māku anō rā ngā kōrero hei whakakōpani. Kei ngā huanga kei ngā whanaunga kei ngā taokete tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa! Me whai wāhi au i te tuatahi ki te kōrero ki a koutou nā koutou te kaupapa nei i ārahi ki tēnei Whare! Kei taku rangatira e Mahara koutou ko Jamie e Toka Wayne koutou i kawe nei i te kaupapa nei tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau. Waiho te hunga mate ki te hunga mate mō te wā! Kua kōrerohia rātau ko Peter Charlton mā ā engari anō a Te Miringa taihoa ake nei ka hoki mātau ki a Te Miringa![Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. "Look look at the Barren Mountain over Parihaka Waitoto-roa and there over Moea-u and Ngāti Haupoto! It is the unloosening of Victoria's cloak serves her right! It is the two birds Tohu and Whiti that slew the enemy with peace heck kss! Oh dear kss! Despite the pillage of Parihaka push shove and shake it!" Acknowledgments to us all. The circumstances in terms of that chant: one an acknowledgment of the Parihaka situation the arrival of the soldiers and peace despite the oppressions imposed upon greater Taranaki. And so I hang that talk upon the wall of the House as a way for me to commence my address this afternoon. The closing address has also been left for me to deliver. And so to my relations relatives and in-laws acknowledgments and accolades to you collectively and thank you to us all. I should find an opportunity in the first instance to address you collectively. You are the ones who guided this matter to this House you my esteemed ones Mahara Jamie Toka and Wayne. You are the ones who bore this matter here. Congratulations well done and thank you to us. Leave the dead to the dead for the moment. They have been referred to Peter Charlton and others but as for Te Miringa we will come back to that one shortly.]To wrap up our day can I just start by saying that I told a story a little bit earlier about some of the people up in the gallery marching on Waitara marae over the fiscal envelope but I left out one part of the story that is actually quite interesting. One part of the story is that as we were going on to the marae one Ngahina only about 16 to 18 years old ran on to the marae with a New Zealand flag—and it was burning. She was tackled by a New Zealand Māori warden who happened to be an Anglican minister. I do not know whether that fella has still got his warrant or not at the moment—because I sign them off—but I say that becauseNgahina is the daughter of Te Miringa Hohaia. I think it is a symbol of the fact that father son daughter—those ones in particular—had a huge connection to this kaupapa. The first time I arrived in Taranaki I went with Te Miringa to the first of the hearings held out at Ngāti Tama and there I saw the tribunal sit in front of Taranaki as they told their story. I think about the meeting today because he gave so much to this particular kaupapa and it is so sad that he is not here today. I am sure he is ā-wairua nei [spiritually].I remember him in his—I think it was—Mark II Zephyr car. He travelled backwards and forwards from Parihaka daily to try to advance his case. I remember him taking me to the Pungarehu post office—a little place a working space. He did it on nothing; he did not get a lot of money out of that kaupapa. I just think of him. I remember one protest. I happened to be broadcasting on the hottest talkback show in Taranaki broadcast on Te Korimako o Taranaki 94.8 FM. It was the hottest talkback show that you will ever hear. There was me and there was Takawai.We had a plan. What we would do is say: "Te Miringa you get out there." So there was a protest out at Motunui I think: the plan was that he would ring in to the radio station and we would appear to be startled by the fact that he was having a protest. So he rang up and said "We've got a protest out here. They're trying to sell land." and the idea was to try to tell everybody that there was a protest going on. That was how we worked—it was great fun. It was great fun that Te Miringa could ring straight in to the radio station unbeknownst to us of course—no!—and say "Hey there's a protest going on." and our people would head out there. Those were good times. I think it was all about as I said awakening the sleeping giant. I do pay tribute to those who have advanced this kaupapa and I think about Te Miringa today.I do want to put out a particular message as we sort of close off. I fear that 150 years after the Crown unleashed military warfare on Māori in the Taranaki region our nation has not learnt too much. Closer to home the majority of Pākehā in Taranaki have not learnt much about the history that once unfolded in the very place that they call home. Needless to say it is time for Pākehā in New Plymouth to wake up: Taranaki iwi Te Atiawa—the patient hugely humble people are waiting. I think most of us have heard about Parihaka and how the Crown invaded the people about 135 years ago. I know that story because I have been there as I said earlier. My in-laws tell me constantly and I have felt that passion and that sadness felt by many of our people who go to Parihaka—and indeed to Taranaki.In my first speech ever in this House back in 2005 these were some of the questions that I posed. Do people know what it is like to face the people of Parihaka and talk about the 1880 Māori Prisoners Act in which more than 200 Taranaki Māori were placed in prison without trial? Do people know that the 1881 West Coast Settlement Act made it legal to arrest Taranaki Māori without a warrant with a further penalty of 2 years' hard labour if they hindered the surveying of land? Do people know of Dunedin? Do they realise that the harbour that has basically cut through and joins pieces of land down there was built by people imprisoned without charge? Many of them died because they froze to death in the caves that they were left to sleep in.While I lived in Taranaki I heard the people of Parihaka talk about the soldiers who came into the village while the children played. I heard them talk about their people being taken away their villages being burnt. I heard about the women bringing out kai. I heard them talk about a kōrero that said "E tu tama wāhine i te waa o te kore."—a reference to our women to stand strong when no one else is around when the men have gone and they have been taken to prison. I see them wearing the raukura the white feather as a symbol of peace. I hear them say: "He hōnore he korōria he maungārongo ki runga te whenua he whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa."["Honour glory and peace upon the land and goodwill to all mankind."]I hear them sing "Piki mai Pungarehu waiho tērā kōrero ki reira. Mā koutou tēnā kōrero e waiata!"["Ascend Pungarehu leave that statement there. You can sing it!"]I hear them sing about the about blowing of the trumpet at Pungarehu—a bugle. There were others as I mentioned before. E Rere Rā Te Motu nei i te rā o Māehe. Titiro titiro.[Flee indeed this here nation on the day of March. Look look!] That is Taranaki history and they sing about it every day. So when the former Mayor of New Plymouth Andrew Judd came out recently calling on his fellow Pākehā in Taranaki to learn about the historic battles between the Crown and Māori he won the hearts and minds of a heap of Māori throughout the country but he lost the votes of most Pākehā.I want to say to the Pākehā people of Taranaki: you have nothing to fear. You have nothing to fear about learning the history of your area. My brother-in-law Mr Tamati talks to me often about how hard it was getting a fair deal for our people at that council; it was such an uphill climb. So Mr Paraone believes that two people in this Parliament who win general seats out of 63 is really going to make a difference? Give me a break!Ka nui te aroha ki tērā whakaaro kāore au i te paku whakaae atu ki tērā momo whakaaro! Me whai wāhi tonu tātau ki runga i ngā poari pai mai kino mai nā runga i te āhuatanga o Te Tiriti o Waitangi.[There is much empathy with regard to that thought; I do not agree with that kind of view not one bit. We must have a place on boards be it good or bad because of the Treaty of Waitangi situation.]But my brother-in-law Mr Tamati also tells me that Andrew Judd's journey of becoming a recovering racist has inspired many Māori in New Plymouth to believe that change is coming. Slow it may be but nevertheless it is coming. Although the New Plymouth District Council has voted down the proposal for guaranteed Māori representation I know it will come soon and they will be able to sit at the table—Taranaki iwi Te Atiawa—with the council. Taranaki iwi and Te Atiawa will become an economic force in the region. The mana not the money of Taranaki iwi and the history they share with all peoples in the region should be the driving force behind such a relationship. So whether the council chooses to go there or not we in the Māori Party hope that they will continue and there will be some advocacy so that battles fought amongst our people and against the Crown throughout the country including Taranaki are taught in the schools of this country and that those battles are commemorated and shared with the nation. We must educate the next generation about those battles that sit right on our back doorstep.Rangiriri Rangiaowhea Te Taratara actually Parihaka and today ko tāku ki ōku hoa anō i tēnei rā ā tēnā koutou i hara mai tawhiti i tēnei rā. E aroha atu ana ki a koutou me te āhuatanga o ngā whakaaro mō te hunga kua ngaro ēngari i tēnei rā ka pai kua tutuki kua tutuki i tā koutou i wawata nā. Ko tā mātau ko te tautoko ake i ēnei kōrero. Nō reira huri huri huri noa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātau katoa.[Rangiriri Rangiaowhea Te Taratara actually Parihaka and today my advice indeed once again to my colleagues on this day and so I acknowledge you collectively who have come from a distance today. I sympathise with you about the situation concerning those who have gone but on this day it is fine it is done. What you yearned for has been fulfilled. Our part is to merely endorse these speeches. Therefore congratulations and well done to you collectively throughout and my thanks to us all.]"