I want to kick off today by fulfilling a promise I made to respond, I guess, in kind, to the Tussiata RVAPOM Savage coloniser. A poem which has sparked as many as a hundred complaints to the Human Rights Commission who absolutely refuse to do anything about it and stand up against racism. Condemnation of the poem has been universal, apart from the spin-off and woke liberals who say it is at. How do you respond to such hypocrisy? Well, I think you respond in kind and you respond with that. So I am now going to share with you this is the day-bue reading of my poem, my ode to Tussiata RVAPOM, and it's entitled, Art or Hate Speech. Copyright, Sean Plunkett, 2023. You say Tussiata, your poem is art, but to many proud Kiwis, it's more like a fart. It's smelly, unpleasant and made to provoke pure clutching victimhood from those who are woke. Those same Kiwi battlers are wondering why, they pay for such rubbish, the price is quite high, and many are thinking as they pay their tax why they are funding such racist attacks. I'm sure you're rehearsing, you're reading on stage, well sharpened as you turn the page, festival groupies will um and they'll are in sharpened their knives in the back of the car. I guess we deserve it, we're male and white, why should we feel safe in our cities at night? The problem, dear Tussi, I'm sure you agree, is your words instruct others to terminate me. Now I'm not suggesting you don't have a right to freedom of speech that might give me a fright, but if I made the same threat to someone like you, Ming Foon and Paul Hunt would be turning quite blue, they'd huff and they'd puff and they'd blow my house down and label me racist all over the town. You know they won't do that, they don't have the guts, so despite all the outrage they'll sit on their butts, and you'll keep on writing the woke gravy train and asking for government funding again. Is it art? Is it hate speech? Who really can say all that I know is it's we who must pay? So there you go, that's my artistic response to the art of the government funded taxpayer funded art of Tussiata, Avia, um could I add that no government funds, no taxpayer funds were used in the creation of that work of art? It is copyright to me. I made channel into a stage play at some stage, but look I am open to critical response to my art too, because I think you know I have to be sensitive to my audience.