Tirikatene Rino: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 18 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18708. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga):Mōrena Mr Chair and tēnā koutou e te Whare. I am pleased to make a very brief contribution on this Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill. I am from the south. It is quite a distance away and we may not seem to have very close immediate connections with a lot of the activities the histories and the maungas that are dealt with in this piece of legislation but actually we do. I just refer back to our korero in relation to the Te Urewera-Tūhoe Bill. There is such a broad wonderful and rich history for all the tribes around the country.I look at Part 3 of this bill which deals with the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority and that body comprises two representatives from Marutūahu; two from Ngāti Whātua; two from Waiohua Tāmaki; six from the Auckland Council; and one from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. It is all good—pai ana tēnā with that body. But when we talk about those maunga I think we also need to acknowledge that the history and whakapapa of those maunga spans a lot broader. It goes even hundreds of years further back.I have mentioned before in previous kōrero on this bill the example of my own whakapapa from North Taranaki south Tainui ancestors of Maki where the name Tāmaki-makau-rau comes from. Maki Tūpāhau and Karewa were men famous in the Ngāti Awa alliance that swept up through Tāmaki and further north and they held sway at Maungakiekie for a time. The ancestors of Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Rārua lived among Waiohua and indeed Toa-Rangatira’s grandfather Korokino was born at Maungakiekie. It was his umbilical cord that was tied to a tōtara sprig and what grew from that was the tōtara tree that became tapu on Maungakiekie. That tree was chopped down by a European one of the early settlers of Auckland—not to be confused with the Mike Smith incident which came much later with a different tree.Hon Trevor Mallard: And it wasn’t the general secretary of the Labour Party.RINO TIRIKATENE: No no it was not the general secretary of the Labour Party. I just make that point because we support the membership to administer these maunga but it is important to note that the history around those maunga spreads right across the whole motu—right across the country. You could say that the ancestors of the tribes in Taranaki right down to Te Upoko o Te Ika and to Te Wai Pounamu even and right across to the Bay of Plenty all regarded those mountains as home at some stage. I would like to think that when we talk about the tribes and the chiefs back in those days—I think it was Michael Jackson who said in a song: “I’m a lover not a fighter.” I think it was from “The Girl is Mine”. Anyway the point I am making is that those chiefs were lovers and fighters and they had what we call “mahi rangatira” which they did back in the day. It is a much richer history which actually binds all the tribes together when you go back to those tūpuna.I just wanted to make the point in relation to this bill that we support the body and all of the technical amendments that have been made. It has been a very good rewrite from the draftspeople and everyone who has been involved. It is also good to note the connections that all tribes effectively have—[Bell rung] Thank you Mr Chair; I was just wrapping up. It is important to acknowledge the connections that all the tribes have from a much richer and more expansive history that goes back 600-plus years to the tribes that are represented in the body of the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill. Kia ora.