six votes opposed [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the hell is the house is suspended until the ringing of the Bells the gallery is to be cleared come [Applause] [Applause] the house is the house is suspended until the ringing of the Bells the gallery is to be cleared [Applause] [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Applause] to be objection point of order the uh uh schs of the Treaty of white tongy bill first reading the division that you are seeing was not caused by the bill it's been built up over decades during which new zealanders have come to
regard themselves as based on Ancestry or one side of a partnership instead of new zealanders and what's worse successive governments have encouraged that division the division is there whether this bill is here to reveal it or not and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer in summary Mr Speaker the principles of the Treaty of white Tangy Bill fills a silence this Parliament has left for five decades and so doing it affirms the basis of our country it is not division treaties are supposed to unite people not divide them speaker The Honorable Willie Jackson Mr
Speaker shame shame shame on you David Seymour shame on you for trying to what for what you're trying to do to this nation in introducing this treaty principles bill made that historic Declaration of power partnership in 1987 Mr Speaker I'm a labor party member but I'm also a proud m in New Zealander and I denounce this foul attempt to rewrite the Constitutional framework of this of this nation simply because the prime minister is too weak to stop the dangerous extremism of the ACT party here New Zealand national 49 votes in favor New Zealand labor 34
votes opposed green party of New Zealand 15 votes opposed act New Zealand 11 votes in favor New Zealand first eight votes in favor [Music] [Applause] [Applause] off [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the house is the house is suspended until the ringing of the Bells the gallery is to be cleared for our position and why we don't support it is very clear you know treaty issues are complex that been negotiated debated discussed over 184 years it's simplistic to assume that you can through the stroke of a pen uh resolve all of that uh I think our
approach is better take it issue by issue hard issues there'll be lots of views on each of those individuals Case by case as we have done and can continue to do but more importantly work with Marty to deliver better outcomes adults with intellectual dis abilities were're not supported to learn today I stand before you as the representative of not only this government but of all the governments that have gone before us to offer a formal and unreserved apology for the abuse that you suffered while in state care churches and other faith-based places second we must
do all that we can to prevent abuse it was horrific it was heartbreaking it was wrong and it should never have happened I'm pleased to announce today that the government has already completed or started work on 20 for many of you it changed the course of your life and for that the government must take responsibility one of the most important things we can do in light of the royal Commission of inquiry is to improve the safe I am sorry that you are not believed when you came forward to report your abuse I am sorry that
many bystanders staff volunteers and carers turned a blind eye and failed to stop or report abuse you've heard words before and now you want action today is a hugely important day for all of you to finally hear what the crown has failed to give you for all of these years an apology it's a hugely important day for us the representatives of the crown and of successive government governments that we finally finally acknowledge the thousands of confronting experiences of neglect abuse trauma torture and that we finally own up fully to our failings and offer our sincerest
apologies we are sorry change it so that state care is really necessary but
