Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister for Broadcasting and Media): Thank you Madam Speaker. Tuatahi e mihi ana ki a koutou ngā wānanga i tae mai nei i whakarangatira i te kaupapa i tēnei wā tēnei te tino mihi ki a koutou. Kei te pīrangi au ki te mihi ki a koutou katoa mō ā koutou mahi nui mō ō tātou iwi. E mihi ana e mihi ana ki a koutou nō reira tēnā koutou haramai haramai nau mai.[Thank you Madam Speaker. Firstly I'd like to acknowledge you the wānanga that have arrived here to honour the topic at this time this is a real greeting to you. I want to thank you all for your great work for our people. My thanks I thank you so greetings welcome welcome welcome.]It's lovely to see all the wānanga people here today. I'm very happy to tautoko my mates here today. As you heard they're all academics. My background is from the freezing works but I've been a major—unlike Kelvin Davis and Minister Jan Tinetti that's been my background. But I've been listening to some of the kōrero today particularly the member over there Penny Simmonds who seems to know the wānanga so well. So I was listening to Penny Simmonds and I thought well I know the wānangas pretty well too so I might talk about my relationship with the wānanga in fact all three wānanga just because Penny you seem to know so much and I reckon I've got a closer relationship. So I'm going to go down that track first of all.But first of all I want to salute the leadership of these wānanga—three magnificent leaders who started these wānanga starting of course with Whata Winiata who's just one of the most brilliant academics I think who we've ever seen and one of our foremost Māori leaders. I notice his son here in the audience today. I just want to read this quote for you for everyone from Ani Mikaere: By 1975 an alliance of three iwi (also known as the ART confederation)"—and we know there is Ngāti Toa Rangatira Te Ātiawa and Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga—"realised that they were fast approaching the point of irreversible cultural collapse. They launched Whakatupuranga Rua Mano: Generation 2000 a counter-assimilatory strategy which focused on revitalisation of Māori language reconnection with cultural institutions and restoration of traditional values to the heart of Māori thinking and practice. Central to this activity has been the establishment of Te Wānanga o Raukawa a tertiary education institution that seeks to transform Māori futures and in so doing to transform the colonial state of New Zealand." Isn't that magnificent—isn't that magnificent? And I think that sums up Te Wānanga o Raukawa so well and their leader Whata Winiata—the first wānanga that was established. So I mihi to that whānau and I will say that my wife is related to that Winiata whānau. Rongo Wetere too is my mother's second cousin believe it or not. No it's true. Their parents are brother and sister. So I think I might have a closer relationship than you Penny Simmonds. My Uncle Rongo came to Ngā Whare Waatea Marae in the 1980s and talked to my mother about setting up something for all the people. She said "Yes cuz—yes cuz. Well put a prefab over there." And of course we all know what happened with the wānanga. He had so many dreams and so many aspirations and he was just one of the foremost leaders. So I want to mihi to him for his mahi. Also the CEO of Te Wānanga o Raukawa Mereana Selby who is here today and also Nepia Winiata who is here today from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.And of course te Awanuiārangi where we have our Professor Sid Mead one of the foremost leaders in terms of Māori over the years. What a magnificent leader. And even today I think the koroua is 95 or he might be a bit older might be 97 but leading the way in terms of his people in Ngāti Awa—magnificent. That's the type of leadership that we've had in Te Ao Māori. And I want to mihi to the CEO Wiremu Doherty and acknowledge my wife who is on the board of Awanuiārangi Tania Rangiheuea who I think hopefully is in the audience today. I think she got a bit hōhā with me because I got the times wrong. But I want to acknowledge her and the mahi they do—just fantastic. I remind the Opposition Penny Simmonds in particular that this place is all about compromise. The whole Treaty settlement process that you put in place is about compromise. Our people walk away with crumbs but they settle because crumbs is better than nothing. You can build goldmines from crumbs. That's what Tainui have done. That's what Ngai Tahu have done. So you are doing the wrong thing today by not supporting a kaupapa that realises so many of our dreams as Māori. Yes as the Minister has said in an absolute ideal world you would have had your ideal bill that's totally concentrating on the wānanga—we get that. But that's not what Parliament is about. The National Party know that better than anyone. And our people have learnt the art of compromise. It irritates us. It bugs us. We don't like incremental change. We want it all straight away. But people like Professor Sid Mead and Whata Winiata and my Uncle Rongo Wetere knew to get something in place and they'd build something for the people. And they did that—and they did that—and we are all beneficiaries of it. The whole nation are beneficiaries in terms of the mahi of the wānanga.At Wānanga o Aotearoa more Pākehā learn Māori than Māori. That's an absolute fact. That's how giving we are to the nation. What do we get? We get nonsense. We get nonsense from the ACT Party. We get nonsense from the National Party. And we get nonsense from Penny Simmonds. I acknowledge your mahi—I do acknowledge your mahi in the past although I'm not a person to get personal as members know. No I'm not a person who gets personal. I want to acknowledge your mahi in the past—no doubt about it—but today you're disappointing Te Ao Māori and in fact yourself. So I just want to say that because this bill should be supported wholly by the House. I want to acknowledge my mate the Minister over here who goes through so much. He's done so much work in pulling the whole kaupapa together.Mihi nui ki a koe taku hoa. Koutou katoa i tae mai nei ki te tautoko i te kaupapa ataahua i tēnei wā tēnei te hōnore ki te mihi ki a tātou katoa tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā tātou katoa. [Many thanks to you my friend. All of you who have arrived here to support this beautiful initiative at this time it is my honour to acknowledge all of us. Greetings and thanks to all of us.]"