Oriini Kaipara, the new Te Pāti Māori MP for Tāmaki Makaurau, gave her first speech in Parliament on Thursday.
Kaipara, who was once a television broadcaster, won the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election in September, defeating Labour’s Peeni Henare by 3,519 votes.
About 100 people gathered in the public gallery to hear her maiden speech, including many children from kura kaupapa Māori schools who had travelled from Auckland. Kaipara began her address in te reo Māori before continuing in English.
She told Parliament that she would not focus on the harms of colonisation, saying those stories were already well known. Instead, she chose to speak about Māori resilience.
“I covered stories,” Kaipara said, referring to her years as a journalist, “and now I choose to change them.” She described herself not as a survivor of colonisation, but as a result of Māori endurance and unity.
Kaipara praised Māori culture and language, including te reo Māori, kapa haka, and Matariki, noting that none of these traditions survived by chance but through effort and resistance from both Māori and non-Māori.
After she finished, a haka broke out in the public gallery before Parliament was briefly suspended.
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I think it is good to vape in order to break a smoking addiction so long you don’t get hooked on vaping too!!
I think we should stop vaping it is twice as worse as smoking and a lot of people are getting peer pressured into it
We should all stop smoking and vaping and hopefully New Zealand becomes a some free country.
if we all stop vaping and smoking we will make nz a healthier place.
I think we should ban smoking/vaping
we should stop vaping
Why was vaping/smoking created anyway such a stupid idea.
LETS STOP VAPING/SMOKING AND SAVE OUR FAMILY,FRIENDS AND PLANTS.
EVERY ONE STOP VAPING
dont vape its bad for you?:-O
we shuold not stop vaping
nah lets keep vaping
nah keep vaping till you have lung cancer??
why do kids even wanna do this???
just stop this asap!!!
vaping I not as bad as smoking but it is still terrible for your lungs.
stop vaping every one around the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stop vaping but also smoking because they are as bad as eachother
YOOOOOOO BAN SMOKING AND VAPING BRUH
vape for life keep vaping its good for your lungs
stop vaping
In my opinion, vaping and smoking should be banned and destroyed. It affects your brain and your lungs and you do not want to get addicted to it.
Vaping is a bad thing and so is cigaretting
stop smokingggg
Vaping puts nicotine into the body. Nicotine is highly addictive and can: slow brain development in teens and affect memory,concetiration,learning,self-control,attention,and mod.
we shold stop vaping this is bad for our body and stop putting them on the ground and dont drink drugs
Vaping and smoking should be banned but it also shouldn’t be banned, here’s why vaping and smoking are highly addictive and it is very hard to stop doing once you are hooked on it but a lot of people
Please stop it is bad
jasper,I do not agree with you because then we just get addicted to vaping instead of smoking.The Government should stop selling vapes and smokes and drugs because they activate dopamine in your brain and make it really addictive,plus it makes your brain go crazy!I would not advise you to do that!!!
vaping is bad stop vaping
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stop vaping (chant)
we should stop vaping/smoking becuses its bad for ur body and for ur health,like kids are vaping in our school and its not cool.my parents disagree bc they love vaping but i searched some stuff up and saw that vaping is way more worse then smoking and if we stop this nz will be smoke free!
Jasper is wrong as they are both bad and none of them should be practiced try nicotine gum instead but not for long because it also has side effects if taken for too long.
whe should all stop vaping cause its bad for your health and its basicly like smoking and smoking can cause you a heart attack.
I feel like this a total monster of a burger look’s more like a grilled cheese than a burger
I am disgusted.
Vape=not zesty/cool
not vape= zesty/cool
all vaping should be stoped
Vaping is terrible and some idiotic people might not think so, and some young children might see their parents doing it and want to do it to this is terrible! even though you are addicted, stop vaping and smoking and soon your addiction will go away.
We should all stop vaping my opa is in hospital from it
for yall who r saying “we should NOT stop vaping” yall obviously haven’t done research. You can literally get asthma or even worse, lung cancer. the more you vape the faster you are trying to kill yourselves, and you guys r too blind to even see it.
i think we should stop vaping because it is not good for your health and will get dead in no time so thats why i think we should continue vaping . na jokes
STOP VAPING ITS BAD!!!!!
We should stop vaping because its bad for your health and you are gonna get lung cancer and then we have go to the emergency room and that why we should stop vaping
i love vaping it’s hard to buy one when only 9 but i steel my sisters but she is only 12 so she has to buy one of this kid in college
@i love vaping
BRUH imagine vaping
i hate vaping
vapeing is ssssooooo bad
stopping it is good!👍
I think that vaping is sometimes a good thing but they have to be over 18 and have to be using it to quit smoking.
STOP VAPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nah vaping is cool its good for the lungs
vaping is bad do not vape
#vaping is bad i agree with you
I think we should stop it
stop vaping it is bad
I agree vapes can kill you and they are very addictive so STOP VAPING!!!!!!
kids that vape are not cool because if you vape you will have bad lungs when they are older because they will be connsitted as a person
Vaping is bad
stop now only if you have bene smoking you should
DON’T ASK JUST STOP VAPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP VAPING it is terrible for you and just maybe a tiny bit better for you than smoking.
STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING STOP VAPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t vape is bad for your lunges!!!!!
Vaping is TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! STOP VAPING!!!
Vaping is TERRIBLE for you why do peple even do it
You should not vape its bad for your lungs and you could get really badly sick
STOPPPPPPpPpPPpPPpPpP vaping
STOP VAPING!!!
it is really bad for you and your lungs.
Vaping is bad it is also terrible for your lungs so STOP VAPING.
Lucan, Nafe, Joe and Kearn are right.
YOU SHOULD STOP VAPING RIGHT NOW IT IS BAD FOR YOU AND YOUR HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should stop vaing
Stop vaping Its not cool!!!!
i think vaping should deffintly stop!
stop vaping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it should stop
Don’t vape
I THINK VAPING SHOULD DEFINITELY BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!
If you want to vape do it, it’s your own fault if you die early.
Stop Vaping!
we should stop vaping NOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
Stop vaping!!!!
STOP VAPING
Shat all vaping stores down imdeiteley now, and I mean now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VAPING IS HORRIBLE IF YOU DO IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop vaping/smoking
Vaping must be stoped
Yeahhhhh stop vaping! I repeat stop vaping!!!!!!!!!
YES WE SHOULD STOP VAPING!!!
I think vaping should be stop because its not safe for young adults and people it will cause a long or short-term lung cancer, diabetes and etc…
Vaping is not good for your health!
Vaping should be stop to avoid young people use vape
STOP BUYING VAPES!!!
stop it NOW!!!!
stop vaping cause it’s bad for your healthy and the environment.
stop it immediately, Please!!!!
My parents always waste their time on vapes, I think its making them hungrier for more! So yes, i agree, vaping, and smoking should absolutely be stopped!!
vaping should be stopped