Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Tēnā tātou e te Whare. Koinei te wā tuatahi ka tū ahau hei [Indistinct]. Ka whakanui ahau i te taenga mai ki konei i tēnei wā ki te whakakanohi i ngā reo me ngā kanohi o tō tātau iwi nā rātou i tuku te mana kaha. E whakapono koutou katoa te Aotearoa hou. E whakatau tō tātou iwi me whawhai ki tētahi Kāwanatanga e kaha ana ki te whakahoki ki whakamuri i a tātou. Nō reira kua tae mai mātou. Toitū Te Tiriti. [Thank you Mr Speaker. My greetings to the House. This is the first time I'm standing to [Indistinct]. I acknowledge our arrival here to represent the voices and faces of our iwi who inspire us with great mana. You all believed in the Aotearoa hou. You decided that we should battle a Government that wants to ensure our regression. So we are here. Honour the Treaty.]It is an honour to be the largest indigenous party today. First of all I want to mihi and thank the Government made up of parties funded and supported by the hyper-rich the 2 percenters who own more than 50 percent of the wealth the hyper - anti-Māori the hyper - Hobson Pledgers the Julian Batchelors the anti-environmentalists and the anti-minorities. I want to mihi to you all—hugely mihi to you all—for providing the greatest opportunity for Te Ao Māori. Your hatred has encouraged us to unite. Your attacks on our culture have motivated our standing in solidarity for ourselves. Your calls to take us back have been a drive to advance. Ka nui te aroha mō tō kūaretanga. [I express my regret for your ignorance.]A Government awarded Fossil of the Day award—how awesome are you guys! In 72 hours Te Pāti Māori tested our people's capacity and capability to step up and be counted to mobilise at the shortest of notice and show each other what we are capable of. All this was done using nothing but our social media. We too are not fans of and not covered by the press but we did that and do you know what? At the beat of our whanaungatanga we didn't need the press. We didn't wah-wah" and tangiweto about the fact we didn't have that. We didn't need billboards in pink sponsored all over the place—centrefold adverts in the New Zealand Herald. As the drum beat all the planning was going on behind the scenes with not a single leak—not a single leak—until we were lined and we were ready. Who said Māori can't keep a secret? Te Pāti Māori is as proud as heck of all our whānau who dropped everything and believed in themselves. We know more will jump on as we continue and you know we will because you have given us the sole mandate to be the undisputed unapologetic unshackled voice in Aotearoa.Remember whānau just because those men over there in Government have w'akapapa it doesn't mean they are mandated to talk on behalf of Te Ao Māori. They don't take pride in being Māori; they take pride in being labelled as professional politicians but they belong to parties that don't have the best interests of Māori at heart—proposing to review rewrite and referend our Te Tiriti. I come from a community where our women have had to stand and hold the line. We are not victims and despite our natural development being interfered with we are here thriving. We are resilient and we are beautiful huia feathers or not and we will not be bullied or stood over by men on that side of the House who embarrass themselves who ridicule our culture. I wish you healing and I hope you find strength in your culture unity as we do. I hope that you don't continue to isolate yourself from the Generation T because Generation Te Tiriti are here. Our kohanga generation has arrived and we're as excited as heck.You see those whose hearts are full of hate and envy don't understand that the more you attack us the stronger we will grow. This Government started with a policy platform made up of 15 policies which stand to disestablish disband disconnect our Tiriti our reo; undo inequity solutions prison their way to justice—oh how unoriginal how uninspiring. There is nothing else; no new solutions. Just look back in the manifesto of 1840.Then themselves—you have attacked our reo. You have dressed up as helping those confused to find themselves through their reo. You have attacked it and dressed up as a Trojan Horse. Hon Shane Jones: Drama.DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: That is so—absolutely. It's the stuff you can't pull off because what you have done is use the typical colonisers' tools. The first thing they do—what do they do? They destroy indigenous people's culture. By what? By removing demoting and demonising their language. My goodness does this Government really think we can't see your policies for what they are? I'm sad—no truly. I am sad that for some politicians in the eve of their political profession. This is your last mark; I'm sad for you. I feel aroha that you represent voters who are not worldly who do not embrace indigenous peoples who are anti-Māori and who are unable to embrace the reo anywhere but I also get that you will now be comfortable calling yourselves flightless birds and hope that you can handle it when the Māori version comes off and the English signs are up for places like Urenui English for Uretiti Rahotu—but wait Shane I have one more—and the English sign for Kaitīeke. That is what these small parties who make up this Government ACT and New Zealand First's combined vote is less than the 20 percent who you have offended the hell out of—the hell out of. This population who make up Māori and our amazing tangata Tiriti have come back at you and they will fight. They will fight side by side. Tangata Tiriti will fight side by side to represent a united dignified Aotearoa hou.I am proud as heck that we showed those who paid $440000 to get a single MP in that our little $17000 per candidate goes a long way. See that is the resilience of Te Ao Māori. If you really want to know how to do economic development we can show you how to do that. Do not be hateful or angry whānau mā. Do not be hateful or angry at this new Government's treatment and disrespect. Be inspired. Be motivated to be more ourselves. Unlike the elite flightless birds who want to focus on protecting the rich we care for all whānau in Aotearoa. We want to end poverty. We want to have a tax policy where we would have 2.2 million people living better. We want to look at those people who are deliberately being put in poverty because you do not see or care about them. We want to see it as absolutely a choice. We want to focus on putting more money in the pockets of those struggling. But no—no we're being told to smoke more and get taxed to help the rich. What the hell have I arrived in?But that's OK—that's OK. We wanted to see GST off kai. We wanted to see an end to duopolies in supermarkets. We wanted to see the end to seabed mining—protect our environment; I know for your mokopuna. But some of you are so far removed from your mokopuna you've forgotten who they are. I look opposite me and I see tobacco lobbyists I see gun lobbyists I see Hobson's Pledge lobbyists I see absolute profiteers landlords conspirators and climate change deniers. Moana Jackson said that if there is proof of the ongoing presence of colonisation it is the constant Crown interpretation of redefining of what Te Tiriti promised. That is what we are seeing.What is unfair to our new Prime Minister is that you have started your legacy as a Prime Minister by attacking Māori and attacking our environment but worse attacking our mokopuna. I know some of those who are with this Prime Minister and I actually believe that he's a decent bloke. But the sad thing for him is that he is alongside people who do not have as long a career in politics as he has and I urge this Prime Minister to take balanced counsel and immerse himself in communities who are proud of their culture who have their own solutions and are not embarrassed about who they are rather than live only in the past—they respect their past and they use that to focus on their future.Finally to ourselves to our reo speakers to those who carry our reo rangatira our tōhunga: you and your commitment to promote and strengthen our reo was one way we were able to feel our whenua and our tūpuna. You are futuristic you are the beacon for all of us you are what we all aspire to be and how the Government is targeting you is kino. We will stand with you; we will stand with the unions to protect your rights and all workers' rights. To our whānau standing for Palestine's freedom to end this horrific genocide and the sights that we see going on for these babies these children—innocent civilians. Keep active keep sharing keep the pressure on because we as indigenous peoples must look after each other. We know the atrocities of colonisation. Stay strong in your unity for kotahitanga. Free Palestine. To our whānau who are out there who have had to watch the atrocity of this new Government clumsily coming through trying to pretend that it knows what is right for Māori. Take heart some of these politicians are on their eve. Some of these politicians are new and we need to manaaki them and we need to help them. We need to help them to be better politicians we need to help them to be great Prime Ministers. I believe we have the ability and the influence to do that. Ignore the loudness look after our whānau who are in that party. Help them to think past one term because these buddies that they have they don't stay around. They're like the kutu you can spray and walk away. To our whānau protect the whenua between your taringa. Reflect on the collective strength of your past: Tohu Te Whiti Tahupōtiki Rātana the Kīngitanga. Most importantly grab all of that look at your mokopuna embrace your rangatahi and you focus on what it is that's required to protect your rights to be the best people in the world. Toitū Te Tiriti. Kia ora rā. SPEAKER: Just before I call the next speaker can I just remind the House that—and I haven't wanted to interfere with anybody's speeches or interrupt them—the use of the word "you" in speeches does refer to the Speaker. I know it's difficult at times and I will have continued leniency throughout the debate so that we get a free flow of things but just bear that in mind. That would be good thank you. I know the member down there didn't mean all those things she said about me."