Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's as always a huge privilege to stand on behalf of the Green Party and offer our support and acknowledgment to Ngāti Hinerangi in this the first reading of their claims settlement bill. I too want to acknowledge this acknowledgment of this representing a re-emergence of the iwi against profound forces that came so close to eradicating their identity and place and mana as an iwi and I think that this bill and this re-emergence represent quite an extraordinary example of resilience and resistance that many in this country would do well to look to and learn from. I feel as if in this speech I should say Ngāti Hinerangi" as many times as possible because it is so important the process and the struggle to get to this point of us formally re-acknowledging your existence and your right to be and your place which is part of what this settlement does. Interestingly it's not usual that I follow a National Party speaker in these debates and offer the Green Party perspective where we're on the same page in saying that we don't see these settlements as necessarily full and final—but amazing efforts of negotiation and the best possible outcomes in the circumstances that are still set up against iwi and hapū. I do think that some of the detail of the former speaker's speech speaks not to a problem within Māoridom but a problem of our processes and the overlapping interests and large natural groupings and the Crown's traditional failure to support good tikanga-based processes to lead to solutions that genuinely reflect an accurate history and a fair settlement and restitution. I do think the point made by the previous speaker of when we don't get this right and it is rushed and it continues to be dominated by the Crown then actually that sets up further grievances for the future. The Green Party will always continue to stand for the intent of Te Tiriti o Waitangi because we believe that that represents the hope for all of our communities to flourish when we abide by those agreements.I will just take a moment to acknowledge some of the history that is in the deed of settlement and commend all New Zealanders who may be watching this debate to seek out this settlement and I will reference two earlier speakers who acknowledged the importance of the decision for our history to be compulsory in our schools because so many of us have come to any understanding of what was done very late in life and many people never have unless they have experienced and been subjected to it. If they're only gaining the benefits from colonisation I don't think we can have truly fruitful conversations or positive relationships until we get on the same page. Making history compulsory in schools is going to be I hope a very important step in that journey and these settlements I hope will feed into that history and can help us understand ourselves better.So in 1840 rangatira affiliated with Ngāti Hinerangi signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi when it was taken across to Tauranga. Then in the 1860s Ngāti Hinerangi joined the Kīngitanga movement as an act of an attempt to restore Māori authority and to slow down that sale—I would say illegal sale—of Māori land. It was an act of joining together for survival and we don't see that in many settlements as clearly as we do in this settlement. They joined the forces opposing the Crown when the Crown waged a war on iwi across Taranaki. Ngāti Hinerangi joined the Kīngitanga forces to fight back against those incursions of the Crown and those acts of aggression. And then in 1864 the Crown sent troops into Tauranga to disrupt the movement of men and supplies to the Waikato and as a result many Tauranga Māori who had fought in the Waikato returned home to aid in the defence of Tauranga. Ngāti Hinerangi were among the force of Tauranga Māori who defeated Crown troops at the battle of Gate Pā which I have absolute confidence will be in our history books for all of us to learn from.Then in the years after that after that battle of defeating those forces with their arms the Crown then went on to—the words are "confiscate" in the deed of settlement; I say "steal". They stole approximately 290000 acres of land across Tauranga and deprived Ngāti Hinerangi of basically any land base and with that loss of land base was a loss of identity loss of economic opportunity loss of society and wellbeing and the impact of that just cannot be understood I don't think fully by those of us not affected directly by that. So this settlement which has again been five years of work to get to this point of negotiation with the Crown offers I think $8.1 million to the iwi and cultural redress and vesting of sites back.I do want to mention specifically and within the settlement that I just think it's a demonstration of the leadership and the generosity and the mana of Ngāti Hinerangi where on their initiative there are areas of land that are being returned that they are not keeping to themselves. They are agreeing and have reached out to co-govern with Tauranga Moana and in fact another block of land once they receive it through the settlement they will be re-gifting to Tauranga Moana iwi. The explanation is a way of maintaining connection with the iwi and whānau. That is such wonderful leadership and I think so many discussions in this country about land and ownership miss that potential. I do believe that the Crown could learn a lot from listening and learning from the example of Ngāti Hinerangi. I think our waterways and our land and our people across the whole country would be much better off if the Crown reflected that sense of shared interdependence and generosity. Nō reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa."