Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. While we're all talking about beautiful electorates I'd like to turn the House's attention to Auckland Central and to the Hauraki Gulf in particular and ask that all eyes are on Pūtiki Bay Kennedy Point. I think all of us in this House and many of those who are watching at home are probably aware of the fact that the law isn't this thing that is deified created by the gods. It isn't this natural phenomena; the law is man-made. It is something that we here create in this House and it is something that we often acknowledge we get wrong when we end up changing the law. That recognition of wrongdoing is often actually also reflected in the likes of Te Tiriti settlements. That is why I as Auckland Central MP and the Greens are asking for all eyes on Pūtiki Bay. Five years ago there was a resource consent granted for development of what is now known as Kennedy Point Marina. That development started a few months ago. Today and this past week we have seen aggressions flaring. We have seen around that development that there has been an increase in the risk to the health and safety of occupiers and those working on the ground and the ancestral moana of Ngāti Pāoa around Waiheke Island. One can't help but reflect on the kind of kōrero that we were having in this country nearly 20 years ago around the foreshore and seabed where we heard from particularly conservative separatist politicians who trotted out this line of Iwi versus Kiwi" which might I add is inherently ironic because the very word "Kiwi" is te reo Māori and therefore an inherent recognition of the cultural value of Te Ao Māori and tikanga. But I digress. It so clearly turns out inherently in this occupation at Pūtiki that it is iwi Māori who are doing the protection of our moana and our whenua for future generations. We've had leading kororā or little blue penguin expert Professor John Cockrem out on the island at Waiheke who issued an interim report about a week ago asking for an immediate stopwork and we expect that his final report will be issued shortly. But in the meantime he has made comments about concern that perhaps some of the 127 resource consent conditions may be being breached. Tomorrow Ngati Paoa Trust Board will take their case for an urgent injunction on that basis. Multiple courts I might add had already to this point acknowledged that there has not been thorough engagement with iwi Māori when it comes to this development. At moments like this in our history in this ivory tower it may seem miles away that occupation that's occurring at Pūtiki. But I think it is really important that we reflect on the unsanitised reality of activism and advocacy that protects these places and spaces for future generations. In 1976 the Government at that point in time announced that it would be selling off Bastion Point in Auckland to the highest-bidding developer. Two days before the development was due to start we saw Ōrākei Māori Committee Action Committee led by Joe Hawke begin an occupation. During the cold and the wet of winter the crowds dwindled to a mere handful of people at that occupation but whenever there was a threat by the Prime Minister at the time—Muldoon—we saw those crowds swell. We saw people turn up and turn out and after 506 days the Government of the time issued hundreds of police officers and the New Zealand Army to take away those occupiers and those protesters and it arrested 222 people. But 10 years thereafter that land was returned through settlements to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei who in turn turned around and provided access to the people of Tāmaki Makaurau. I just really want to the House to reflect on that because after putting their bodies on the line for a year and a half after holding space and gathering some criminal convictions—Hon Paul Goldsmith: "Professor Swarbrick".CHLÖE SWARBRICK: Profit was never the point—Paul Goldsmith—but the point was to ensure that this space was available for all future generations. That is kaitiaki. That is koha. Honour Te Tiriti—protect Pūtiki."