Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Madam Chair. I rise to have a go at speaking in the Votes Foreign Affairs and Trade Defence and Customs. I am not on that committee but I have listened to some of the debates that my colleagues have traversed in the Chamber and have read the documents to get a sense of the sorts of issues that were raised. I listened with great interest and admiration for example to my colleague Priyanca Radhakrishnan's speech where she talked about: what is the role of our voice as a State—our influence and our leadership? How do we work internationally with diplomacy across grassroots and communities and what are the bases of our relationship? What are the discussions that we have internationally? I listened to colleagues on this side of the Chamber also raising similar issues. I want to raise similar issues in my contribution today.I'm really proud—for example back in 2000 in the National Government's term when they actually led the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We have had many issues raised around the world that cause us to pause and think about the diplomacy relationships that we possibly might have as a country. There are plenty of examples. Need I start with the fire burning our global lungs in the Amazon forests right now at this very moment—and I am aware that the Prime Minister and also the foreign affairs Minister have offered comments. The Green Party shares the concerns with the global community about those fierce and widespread fires in the Amazon many of which are deliberately lit. I wonder what sort of role and conversations we can have about the role of the global State but also what cautions we need to be talking about with the authorities and the leader of that country and of that region.In this instance if I could put to the committee the sorts of inspiring conversations about what would prevent the decimation of those incredible forests that hold a massive amount of carbon-sinking ability for all of us that hold some of the world's most important places of biodiversity and protecting the ecosystems there—I wonder what our role is in being able to say that upholding the indigenous rights for example through the United Nation's declaration that we signed up to and understanding that the female chiefs in particular have been trying to fight to protect those forests for decades against deforestation against incredible and corporate resistance which is aiding the fires that are burning horribly in front of our eyes right at the moment. So I join other colleagues who have raised other issues of international importance where we can have an influence and can have a voice and that's just one example but a very dire and urgent one.In the last part of my time we have another example: indigenous peoples' responsibilities to collectively protect our places our environment and our communities as part of a global response to climate change to addressing our responsibilities as a global partner to reducing our emissions and understanding the role that upholding the leadership of indigenous peoples has in that work—the essential leadership particularly of indigenous women.I close off with another example happening right now on the island of Hawaii which is the protection and guardianship of Mauna Kea where there is a proposal to build a giant 30-metre telescope—a proposal which has seen an open letter signed by over 700 astronomers and astrophysicists who are saying that this sort of proposal is a lazy one that further tramples on the indigenous protection of that mountain and we do not want it if that is what it is going to do. So there is opportunity for us to have those diplomatic discussions as leaders. Thank you Madam Chair.