Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Kia ora. It is a great pleasure to rise on behalf of the Greens in support of this omnibus Māori Purposes Bill. We support it in the hope that the changes in this bill will indeed contribute to Māori wellbeing and development by providing Māori entities with greater autonomy and decision making addressing previous technical issues within legislation and reducing administrative compliance. What a nuisance it must have been for them to have to change law to achieve some of that.The laws we seek to amend are good examples of the paternalistic way in which successive New Zealand Governments have continued to colonise Māori by setting up legal entities for them to do what they're best qualified to do anyway. The Greens support bills which allow iwi whānau and hapū to have a say in the issues that affect them—to get on with their responsibilities to each other but also to their whenua their awa and their moana. We uphold the mana of Māori leadership. We explicitly support Matike Mai and He Puapua which allows for the rangatiratanga and mana motuhake of our iwi hapū and Māori organisations—the recognition of their authority in their own sphere.Amending Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 will ensure the Ruapuha Uekaha Hapū Trust will continue to exercise its kaitiakitanga of the Waitomo caves a truly truly magical place. It will also help ensure its succession orders uphold the mana of the Wai 51 claim. Amending the Maori Purposes Act 1959 will give the Lake Rotoaira Trust more autonomy and flexibility in managing Rotoaira and its trout fishery which it does on behalf of its tūpuna for their mokopuna. Rotoaira as others have said is a very beautiful and restful place and it was one that was very special to my grandmother. It is the area where mountain Taranaki was—was said to have been losing a battle with Tongariro over the heart of Pihanga so it caused Taranaki to move to its current destination its current location.Among other things amending the Maori Trust Boards Act 1955 will provide for electronic voting. Electronic instead of postal—finally. Their voting numbers are about to go through the roof. We wish them well with their ease of future processes.Amending the Maori Community Development Act 1962 will mean that district Māori councils need only provide their audited accounts to the New Zealand Māori Council and not to the chief executive of Te Puni Kōkiri who could probably do without that micromanagement after all of these years.Appropriate decision-making is one of the cornerstones of the Greens' charter so the views of the organisations that are affected by these bills matter to us. We note that Te Puni Kōkiri has gained support from the Lake Rotoaira Trust Ruapuha Uekaha Hapū Trust but also the Aorangi Hauraki Tūwharetoa Whakatōhea Tauranga Moana Waikaremoana Māori Trust Boards and Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua. At the time of writing a reply from the Tai Tokerau Māori Trust Board was still coming but I'm sure that's been received by now.We look forward to a time when all such organisations are left to get on with their own work without Government oversight—when this Government is able to put in place what the partnership principle of Te Tiriti o Waitangi means. But all in all this is a sensible omnibus bill that we commend to the House. Kia ora.