Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Labour): Bit of a hard act to follow there brother. Jeez—jeez!Rawiri Waititi: It's not an act.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: I realise that. Ēngari tuatahi e mihi ana kia koutou Whakatōhea. Tae mai nei i tēnei wā i whakarangatira i a mātou i tēnei wā. Mihi ana ki a koutou. He wā roa ēngari ka mutu tēnei haerenga. Kāore i te tiki te mahi whakataunga ēngari ka whai wāhi tonu te whakataunga mō ngā reanga hou nōreira tēnā koutou tēnā anō tātou katoa. [Firstly acknowledgments to you Whakatōhea. Arrived here today we are honoured that you are here today. Thank you all. It has been an enduring time; however it has come to an end. The settlement wasn't made right but the settlement will benefit the future generation and so greetings to you all. Thank you everyone here today.]We're very lucky in the House to have that type of contribution in all seriousness from the member Rawiri Waititi—from your member Whakatōhea. That type of karakia or kōrero has never been done in the House so I mihi to my good mate and whanaunga Rawiri for putting that forward in the House because that is what it's all about. So mihi ana ki a koe Rawiri.When I was looking at this kaupapa and I've been listening to some of the kōrero today—some magnificent kōrero—I think the Whakatōhea kaupapa is the best example of how badly the Treaty settlement process went. I'm not talking about the recent settlement Minister; I'm talking about the history. I'm talking about 1995 when our good friend Ranginui Walker said no—he said no to this process. He said no because he said that the Crown picks winners the Crown picks who they negotiate with the Crown has all the numbers and the Crown decides the final pūtea. Rangi said that in 1995 I think it was and they waited 20 years for any justice to come back their way. They got put to the back of the line. That was his punishment and that was their punishment for daring to try and negotiate with the Crown.See we still talk about that type of thing—we all talk about it now which is really good—but have things really changed? We have Treaty negotiators here: Rawiri Deb and others who have been involved—has the system really changed? I remember this so well and I spoke about it the first reading because I interviewed Ranginui over this on radio when he was alive. He was quite tortured by it because at one level he was proud of what he did for all the whānau here but he felt some guilt because the tribe got put to the back of the queue. So I say today when we look at the settlement let's try and learn something I suppose. Let's try and learn something because there's been some beautiful kōrero today—particularly the last karakia kōrero from Rawiri Waititi which was absolutely exceptional. But if we don't learn anything from the Ranginui Walkers I don't know what we learn.Then I listened to Shane Jones today too and I thought it was beautiful. It was the same Shane Jones who keeps rubbishing the Waitangi Tribunal and they want us to shut the tribunal down. I don't know if it's the same Shane Jones I'm talking to sometimes because I love Shane Jones sometimes and then I hate him some other times. You know we love Shane Jones when he's in that mode and then he goes into the into the media with his mate David Seymour and they talk about closing down the tribunal.The tribunal should be alive for ever and a day. It does not shut down just because we complete Treaty settlements. If we shut if the tribunal down are we saying we're going to trust the Crown for ever and a day? That's not what the tribunal was about. I need our Minister of Treaty Negotiations to not listen to Shane Jones and to listen to myself and Peeni Henare and Rawiri Waititi. Don't listen to Shane Jones—he'll just waffle on with Winston's carry on you know.So I say today that we do these settlements with beautiful kōrero from all sides of the House but we've got this sort of cloud hovering over us. I see that on Thursday Te Pāti Māori is running their protests and good on them I say. But we have a cloud over us and something doesn't feel right as we push through these settlements and then we start losing Māori rights here there and everywhere. It doesn't seem right. Are these the same people whom I'm listening to going Here's some great kōrero from ACT great kōrero from National." and yet we have Māori rights under threat.So I say to our people who are here today that this is the completion of a journey but it might be the start of another one. It might be the start of another one because we have Māori rights under threat and we have the tribunal being attacked every second or third day by two Ministers who should know better—particularly Mr Jones. I say to our people that we must get ready. We must get ready and we must continue this because just because things shut down it doesn't mean that the tribunal shuts down. It doesn't mean Māori rights are shut down. It doesn't mean that the fight doesn't go on.So mihi ana ki a koutou—well done. I see Dudu Kāhautū up the back there. We tautoko your whanaunga out the back here behind us—the kaihautū. He gave it to us at the Treaty settlement thing when we didn't turn up and we remember that. He said "Where's my nephew Peeni?"—ae Peeni? Well he's right here Dudu and we absolutely tautoko—we just got caught up that day ae brother? He made sure he embarrassed us. The Māori Party said "Yes where's Labour?" They were into it straight away. But I want to mihi to you too brother up the back there and to all of you who've come here today—you know these are special times for this House. For all parties these types of settlements bring the best out in everyone—you know you don't really see us at each other's throats. I'm probably the only one who keeps booting the other side you know—I can't help it. But I also recognise that when you hear some of the kōrero coming out from some of these MPs on the other side you can see that they're conflicted—you see? There are some real obligations in terms of our people and getting through the Treaty settlements process and then that conflict because Winston—you know how he is. Actually Ranginui was quite a supporter of Winston's wasn't he?But anyway thank you everyone. It's been lovely to make a contribution. Special kōrero today as I said from all sides of the House—all the best to everyone. Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou tēnā koutou ā tēnā anō tātou katoa. [This is my warm salutations to you thank you all and also greetings to us all.] Kia ora."