Tana Darleen; Brownlee GerryDARLEEN TANA (Green): Maranga mai e te iwi eWhāia te tika i roto i te ngākauKei hea ngā hua o te whenua?Aue aue te mamae o taku wairuaE kore au e mātakitakiKo te takanga ki te hēKia tūpato whakarongo maiMaharatia ngā tikanga a ō tātou tūpunaRuia atu e i aue[Arise the peoplePursue the truth within your heartWhere are the fruits of the land?Oh my the anguish of my soulI will not watchThe fall into sinBe careful listenRemember the ways of our ancestorsCast them wide alas]Ko Pou-e-rua te maunga ko Waitangi te awa ko Ngāti Kawa me Te Tiriti o Waitangi ngā marae ko Ngāti Kawa me Ngāti Rāhiri ngā hapū. Ko Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu Ngāti Porou Ngāti Awa Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Ngā Rauru ngā iwi. Kei te mihi ki ngā mana whenua o tēnei rohe taurikura. Mihi mai ki ō koutou nei mokopuna ka tae mai ki te tū i mua i a koutou. Ko Hōhepa Kōpiri te tangata. Ko Te Āti Awa te iwi. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou koutou.[Pou-e-rua is the mountain Waitangi is the river Ngāti Kawa and the Treaty of Waitangi are the marae Ngāti Kawa and Ngāti Rāhiri are the hapū. Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu Ngāti Porou Ngāti Awa Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and Ngā Rauru are the iwi.I acknowledge the authorities of the land in this thriving region. Welcome your grandchildren that have come here to stand before you. Hōhepa Kōpiri is the leader. Te Āti Awa is the iwi. Greetings and thanks to us all.]Tēnā rā koe Mr Speaker. Through you I would like to thank the House for this time that is accorded to us for our kauhau tuatahi [maiden speeches].At our swearing-in ceremony we were told that we could pledge our oaths on the Bible or on a taonga of our choosing. I chose to do so on this taonga here. It is tohorā—whale bone—and it acknowledges my tūpuna here in Aotearoa from around the early 1800s.Marupō Pūmuka rangatira nō Te Tai Tokerau [leaders from Northland] who signed He Whakaputanga me Te Tiriti o Waitangi [the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi] on our tūpuna whenua in Waitangi. Here also my tūpuna Hōhepa Kōpiri of Te Āti Awa who signed Te Tiriti here in Whanganui-a-Tara. There is kōrero in my whānau. Hōhepa Kōpiri was born Joseph Phillips. Yes a Pākehā who was whāngai-ed by Te Āti Awa and went on to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a rangatira Māori. Here also is Hannah King Hansen my great great great great-grandmother whose grave is in Kororāreka. Upon her gravestone are inscribed the kupu: The first European born in Aotearoa." With such whakapapa it might come as no surprise of my position when it comes to upholding ngā kawenata tapu ko Te Tiriti o Waitangi me He Whakaputanga [the sacred covenants the Treaty of Waitangi and the Declaration of Independence]. Kei te tautoko mārika ahau i ngā kōrero kua kōrerohia e te whanaunga ko Hūhana Lyndon. [I wholeheartedly support the statements made by my relative Hūhana Lyndon.]Every 28 October and 6 February our hapū hosts the nation at Te Tii Waitangi marae at Toa Rangatira where we commemorate the kōrero and the dreams and aspirations of our tūpuna rangatira. In as much as my whakapapa might also suggest a predestined career in politics my journey here has been quite unconventional. I did go to university after high school which today sounds normal but back in the 1980s that was not a common thing for our people. I moved to Palmerston North Massey University got my bachelor's degree in chemical technology and went on to work as an environmental scientist for the next seven years. In 1997 I was awarded one of two Rotary Foundation ambassadorial scholarships to study anywhere in the world. I did my Master's in business administration at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels Belgium. I remained in Belgium for 17 years working in corporate telecom initially in IT moving into strategic programme management and then later head of talent management. My time at Belgacom was incredible and I was so far from home for so long. And at this stage I would like to just acknowledge alle mijn vrienden cher collega's in Belgie nog. Een hartelijk dikke merci. Ca fait si longtemps depuis qu'on s'est vu vous me manquez tellement nom d'une pipe! I met my Danish husband Christian Hoff-Nielsen while studying and together we have four beautiful children Nikita Joakim Jules and Louie. In 2014 we packed up our lives into six suitcases left Brussels and came to Waiheke Island. There we set up Chris' business manufacturing selling and renting electric bikes. I swapped out my pencil skirts and high heels for a bike mechanic apron and steel cap boots. In 2020 the Northland branch of the Green Party found me at Waitangi and asked me to stand as a candidate in that general election. I didn't have a clue about politics at that time but I did know how to ride a bike so I did that. From Kawakawa I crossed to Hokianga up through Pānguru Ahipara Kaitāia Te Rerenga Wairua and then back down eventually through State Highway 10 to te Kerikeri hoki atu back west to Ōmāpere and this time heading south down through Waipoua to Dargaville to Ruawai rolling through Maungatūroto—where they go particularly hundy on billboards in my experience—to Mangawhai and then back to up through to Waipū.Now it was on that haerenga āta haere ana āta whakarongo ana [going slowly listening carefully] that I realised that the whenua had a lot more dare I say important things to say than many of the people. The whenua was in severe drought there was little or no topsoil and it struggled to sustain life. It was the same in our awaawa and our moana. Sewage sedimentation overfishing—all contributing to the complete and utter degradation of the mauri of our taiao. Of course with my science background I could speak to these things as the chemist or the geologist or the ecologist but I knew the critical element was that deep deep knowing that actually everything is connected. I stepped out of my husband's business after that. I went instead to wānanga to tune into taiao through tirohanga ao Māori learning pūkōrero tuku iho and maramataka observing the tohu ki te rangi ngā tohu mā runga i te whenua ngā tohu kei roto i te moana and the tohu within myself. [I went instead to wānanga to tune into the environment through the Māori world view learning traditional narratives and lunar calendars observing the signs in the sky the signs on the earth the signs in the ocean and the signs within myself.]It was in that collective bringing together of the aeons of tūpuna wisdom and the rangatahi sass to create that new knowledge that I found hope. In spite of changing climate in spite of collapsing ecosystems and in spite of this insane idea that we just need more and more and more stuff I found hope for our tamariki I found hope for our mokopuna and I found hope for our mokomokopuna.It was on this day 14 February in 2005 that we buried our dad Te Wini Murphy Ngakoti Honetana. My mummy Susan Rena Tana is here today as are my tēina Chevy and Rena. E mihi kau ana ki koutou e te whānau me tō tātou tūngāne ko Murphy. [I unreservedly acknowledge you my family and our brother Murphy.]I bring my dad into the kauwhau today because it was he who taught me that to be Māori means to be ordinary which is to say that we are just part of the natural fabric of this land. We are no better than the manu the rākau the kōhatu me ngā tini a Tangaroa [the birds the trees the rocks and the many descendants of Tangaroa] and we are certainly not any worse than anyone else either. My parents taught me never to whakahīhī oneself—you know to lord yourself over another—never to whakaiti or demean another; if anything to whakaiti or to humble oneself and to manaaki or acknowledge the majesty in the other. They instilled in me the knowledge that everyone and everything has mauri has mana and has tapu and that it is indeed that sanctity that must inform the quality of our relationships.My coming to this House is me heeding the karanga me heeding the call of Hinemoana rāua ko Papatūānuku [the ocean and the land]. I come here to bring their voices into this Whare in whatever language each of us members of Parliament can understand. I get the need for economic growth and prosperity but my inoi my tono my wero is simply that we do this in ways that regenerate rather than detract from the mauri and that we manaaki our hononga ki te taiao [nurture our relationship to the environment]. Ko te whakapapa tēnā. He tapu tēnā. [That is genealogy. That is sacred.]I also wish to thank those who supported me on my campaign journey to get here today because well Hinemoana and Papatūānuku weren't really eligible to vote. To all of our whānau Kākāriki my never-ending love. Tangata whenua tangata Tiriti working together since well before 1820 if I go back to my nanny Hannah King Hansen's day. To Rolf and Inge—or as my mummy calls you these days my German mum and dad—thank you thank you thank you. To our children I am sad that I'm not home much these days but you know Dad and I gave life to you so that you could live and Mummy is here to make sure that that life is worth living for you and for all of the children on our planet.Lastly a final short kōrero if I may about relationships. My decision to wear moko kauae came after a big kōrero in our family. As tino European Māori you know we had to cover off a lot of ground. It didn't really help either when there were a lot of people out there talking smack out of ignorance. But anyway after nearly two years my Danish husband acquiesced and so we took him back to Waitangi. I recall sitting up when my whanaunga Kaitā had finished tears bursting forth with my mum and my auntie approaching to hongi me. Kua tae te wā—come the time—for my husband to approach me he looked and he said "I don't know if I can kiss that." to which I replied "That's OK I'm sure I can find someone who will. But I give you first dibs." Well I'm pleased to say it's been many a happy Valentine's Day since then. Every relationship—whānau mā—is a work in progress and I look forward to working on those right here across this esteemed Whare. Nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā rā tātou katoa. [Applause hongi and harirū]Waiata—"Toro Mai tō Ringa"SPEAKER: To make her maiden speech to Parliament I call on Celia Wade-Brown."