Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Tēnā tatou. E Nanaia nāku anō kē i kī atu i tērā wiki e kore rawa ahau e whāngai i ō roimata hei kai mō taku patu. Engari taihoa ake ko taku patu me taku utu he hoa haere anei e haere ake nei.[Greetings. Nanaia it was rather me who said last week I will not allow your tears to be fodder for my weapon. However in time my weapon and my revenge will be companions and here you are going forward.]Like I said last week our tikanga is clear: that we give time for whānau to grieve their losses whether they be whānau friends allies or even enemies. I have honoured our tikanga by giving her family time to mourn. But now I am released of this tikanga to express the past and current grievances of tangata whenua and other indigenous peoples all over the world at the hands of the Crown headed by Queen Elizabeth of England. We must acknowledge the brutal genocidal and ongoing impact of colonialism of the imperial project that was overseen by the house of Windsor and its forebears here in Aotearoa and around the world.It is said that at its height the sun never set on the British Empire. It's hard to fathom but that one statement is built on the backs of millions of indigenous peoples around the world. The sun never set on their colonialism on their racism and on their violence. The Crown was built on stolen assets and exploitation of tangata whenua and indigenous peoples all over the world. We cannot support this holiday. This holiday is a torturous and an insulting reminder for us. She said the Treaty has been imperfectly observed but never tried to remedy this by honouring tangata whenua and honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Article 1 consented to kāwanatanga not sovereignty. Article 2 recognised the pre-existing rights of tangata whenua our full and exclusive rights to our undisturbed possessions of our lands estates forests fisheries and other properties—our taonga. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Waititi I'll just remind you that we are here to debate a bill. You've had two minutes now and I would ask you please to now concentrate the rest of your time on the bill we're debating here today. RAWIRI WAITITI: Point of order Mr Speaker. This is everything to do with this bill. This is a holiday for Queen Elizabeth the Sovereign of England. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes and that's what I'm asking you to debate please—RAWIRI WAITITI: And that's exactly what I'm talking about. DEPUTY SPEAKER: —Mr Waititi. So if you carry on feel free to carry on but please refer your comments to the bill before the House which is around the holiday. So carry on please. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Point of order Mr Speaker. We have just been listening to colleagues across the House who have talked about agriculture about their time in police and about police dogs. This kaupapa is extremely relevant: it is the Crown who are the Tiriti partner. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Please confine your comments or reference your comments around the holiday and you'll be keeping within the Standing Orders. So carry on.RAWIRI WAITITI: Article 3: In [considering] thereof Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects."—"imparts". Therefore I declare on behalf of te Iwi Māori that Queen Elizabeth the Queen of England and her predecessors and successors have never had sovereignty over tangata whenua here in Aotearoa. We are her equals as affirmed emphatically in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.Here's a question I pose to this House: why for the Queen of England and not for the Māori Queen Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu and many other significant figures of te Iwi Māori? Matariki National did not support. Fifteen years we waited since 2009 when Rahui Katene first presented that bill to this House. They could not support that. But they support a holiday that is going through this House in one night. It's absolutely—I don't get it. At least ACT is consistent and do not support the one-off holiday as they did with Matariki.If you look at our founding covenant as a marriage between ngā rangatira o ngā hapū Aotearoa and the Crown Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a child of that marriage. It's time tangata whenua and tangata ti tiriti take full custody of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi from the Crown. This won't mean the Crown is off the hook. If a couple gets divorced you do not lose responsibility. There's talking over there because they will not allow indigenous peoples to have their voice at this time. This will be an opportunity to reimagine a more meaningful and fulfilling partnership between tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti. It's time for Māori to assert our rights to self-management self-determination and self-governance over all our domains. It's time to remove the British royal family as head of State and move towards to an Aoteroa hou a Tiriti o Waitangi-based nation in the Pacific.Therefore it is time for tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti to have an adult and mature conversation about how we realign the relationship through Te Tiriti o Waitangi to create a Tiriti-centric Aotearoa to create a constitution based on our founding document Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Until then we will never have peace. Nor will the Crown the royal family or for that matter Pākehā in Aotearoa have any honour in the eyes of tangata whenua or te Iwi Māori. The Māori Party—Te Paati Māori—absolutely and unequivocally do not support this bill. Kia ora tātou."