Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): E kāhu au ki te uira e kanapa rā i runga i Kōkōtāiki e. E ko te tini o te mate ka riro atu rā ki te huinga kahurangi e. E hoki atu rā atu rā aku nui aku wehi aku whakatiketike e ki te pōuriuri ki te pō tangotango ki a Hine-nui-i te-Pō. Pō kia whakataukī au i konei he tokotoru nā Hine Tama ka hōrū te moana e. Tuatahi e te Māngai o te Pāremata ora ko te wehi ki a Ihoa ora o ngā mano ki te pāremata o te Rangi mō ana manaakitanga ki runga i a tātou i tēnei rā. Ka tiki au i ngā tikanga o ā tātou mātua tīpuna—tangihia ō tātou mate he tikanga tūturu he tikanga tuku iho. E tika tonu ko Irihāpeti tēnei ko Tā Wira tēnā ko Tā Toby tēnā ko Moana tēnā ko Muriwai tērā ko Anituatua tērā ko te tumuaki o te Hāhi Rātana tērā ko te tumuaki o te Kīngitanga tērā ko wai atu ko wai atu ko wai atu? Rātou o te ope tārewa ki a rātou. Kotahi noa te kōrero whoatu haere. Haere tōtika i runga i te ara kōrero kua parangia e te tini e te mano moe mai moe mai moe mai rā. [I turn my attention to the lightning that flashes on Kōkōtāiki ridge. There are many dead who have been taken to the gathering place of the illustrious. Return my great ones my reverent ones of high rank to the world of darkness to the world of the dead to the Goddess of Death. The underworld let me here declare the three by Hine Tama made the ocean sob. Firstly to the Speaker of the living Parliament the fear of Jehovah of the thousands of the celestial parliament for its protection upon us this day. I draw on the customs of our ancestors—lament our dead an ancient tradition and one passed down through the generations. Elizabeth of course is this one Sir Wira another Sir Toby another as well as Moana Muriwai and Anituatua along with the head of the Rātana Church and the head of the King movement and who else who else? Let the spirit troupe be with the spirit troupe. There is but one thing to say: go forth depart. Travel directly upon the storied pathway forged by the myriads. May you rest in peace.]I rise on behalf of Te Paati Māori today and I want to share a kōrero. In my iwi of Te Tai Rāwhiti there is a saying: Waiho te tangi a Takoto tangi ki a Tamatea Toia. Waiho kia tangi a Tamatea Toia tangi ki a Takoto." [Leave the lament of Takoto; grieve Tamatea Toia. Wait until Tamatea Toia cries then grieve for Takoto.]Two sisters whose fate already written in the skies were already tau ki te papa [couldn't be helped]. They couldn't be helped as is the passing of Queen Elizabeth. That fate has already been sealed in the skies. What has also been sealed in the skies is the continuous utu for the honouring of a partnership. I share another story at home about Mihi Kōtukutuku one of our kuia. When she died a contingent of Te Arawa came to Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and as they went on to the marae before the whaikōrero was even started cursed this kuia. I roto i Te Ao Māori he tikanga anō tēnei. [In the Māori World this has another meaning.] All the profanities i roto i Te Ao Māori [in the Māori World] on this kuia were laid on our marae. Her mokopuna wanted to go out on that marae and fight the Te Arawa people. It was her son Eruera that said "Their turning up today and the curses on our marae honour their grandmother." So I see a lot written on social media about the righteous anger of indigenous peoples all over the world and I take those stories as stories that I carry with me in my tikanga. Therefore the cusses and the whakaiti haven't come from us because there is tikanga in our people that is tangihia ō tātou mate [to lament our dead].Our tikanga is clear that we must give time for whānau to grieve their losses and even enemies can show respect. E kore rawa ahau e tuku mā wō roimata hei kai mō taku patu. Engari taihoa ake nei ko taku patu me taku utu he hoa haere. [I would never allow your tears to be fodder for my weapon. But in time my weapon and my revenge will come together.] There is a time and a place to raise to your patu; there is a time and place to lower it.As she said in her own words the relationship that has been between the Crown and Māori has been "imperfectly observed" and I want us to acknowledge that today. Te Tiriti o Waitangi gave consent to kāwanatanga and has been honoured by tangata whenua for over 180 years. It confirmed the pre-existing rights of tangata whenua: to be undisturbed of our full and exclusive rights to our whenua to our moana to our ngahere to our awa to our taonga. It also promised of being treated as equals—mana ōrite. This is the "imperfectly observed" part of her speech that she was talking about. As I stand in this House as a representative of te Iwi Māori we must always speak our authentic truth. The British Empire and the power of its monarchy was built of stolen whenua stolen resources and stolen taonga. Koina hoki hei kōrerotanga mā tātou. [That is what I have for us to discuss.] It's the same way we would have spoken on a marae whakatakotoria ngā kōrero ki runga i te ātea hei wānanga hei kōrerorero mā tātou [by laying down the issues on the forecourt they can be deliberated and discussed by all].Nō reira in closing it is now up to Te Atua. She now kneels at the mercy of the ultimate King and there is a saying—well there is a process—i roto i ngā hāhi katoa—in all religions—that we will kneel in front of the ultimate King and confess wā tātou hara [our sins]. Ko tōna mahi ināianei he muru hara. Ko tōna mahi ināianei he tāpae rīpenetā. Ko tōna mahi ināianei he kaupare atu i ngā mana i ngā tapu i ngā ihi i ngā wehi i waihotia e ia ki runga i tēnei whenua wērā atu āhuatanga tuku iho tuku iho tuku iho. Nō reira ka nui aku kōrero mō tēnei wā. Ka tiki au i ngā kōrero a ngā mātua tīpuna āpiti hono tātai hono rātou te hunga wairua ki rātou āpiti hono tātai hono ko tātou te hunga ora ki a tātou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa. [His work now is to forgive sins. His work now is to recite repentance. His work now is to divert the authorities the prestigious the powers and the awe left by him on this land and those other things passed down through the generations. Therefore that is enough from me at this time. I call on the words of our ancestors: the lines of descent are unbroken let the dead rest with the dead the lines are unbroken let the living be with the living. Greetings greetings greetings one and all.]"