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Lady Tureiti Moxon: Managing Director of Te Kōhao Health on Treaty Principles Bill hearing · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Well. Oral hearings for the Treaty Principal's Bill get underway today,
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  Speaker 1: marking the start of eighty hours worth of hearings over
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  Speaker 1: the course of a month. The total number of online
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  Speaker 1: submissions received isn't known yet as processing continues. Author of
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  Speaker 1: the bill and AT Party leader David Seymour will be
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  Speaker 1: the first to give his submission later this morning. A
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  Speaker 1: total of fifty oral submissions will be heard on day one.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Turditi Moxon is the managing director of tair Kahual
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  Speaker 1: Health and we'll be speaking at Parliament later this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And she joins me, now, a very good morning to.
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  Speaker 2: You, very good morning to you too.
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  Speaker 1: Look, thanks so much for getting up early in joining us.
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  Speaker 1: What are you expecting today? How are you expecting things
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  Speaker 1: to go?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think it should go pretty smoothly. I think
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  Speaker 2: they've got a lot to do. But our submission is
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  Speaker 2: basically we're saying what what we believe needs to happen
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  Speaker 2: in terms of this bill and the fact that we
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  Speaker 2: reject it, both reject and oppose.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a heck of a process, hasn't How have
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  Speaker 1: you found the process to get to this point?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it has been a heck of a process, and
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  Speaker 2: the worst of it is there's a waste of time
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  Speaker 2: simply because labor are sorry national and and you said
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  Speaker 2: the first have both said that they won't they weren't,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't supported beyond this process. How ridiculous is that?
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  Speaker 2: Why would you put us through that process? Is that
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  Speaker 2: if you have no intention of supporting it going forward.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we're pleased about that, don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure we could be spending a lot of that.
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  Speaker 2: All that money and all that time and resource aren't
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  Speaker 2: better things?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, there's a fair point. I think you're making
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  Speaker 1: a good point. So what is the point and you
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  Speaker 1: making a submission today with a bill that's going nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Well, simply because we must be heard. And you'll find
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  Speaker 2: that the other people behind me, or forty nine other
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  Speaker 2: people behind me will feel the same way. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to remember too that we had the largest
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  Speaker 2: protests in the country in terms of the Treaty Principles bill,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, forty two thousand people got out
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  Speaker 2: and spoke to their feet. So you know, I actually
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  Speaker 2: think that there.
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  Speaker 3: Is it's important to be able to say to them
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  Speaker 3: and all of those yet to come in our future
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  Speaker 3: that we try to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it, Well, look, it's a fair point,
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  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people would love to
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  Speaker 1: be there listening to what's going on, or maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think do you think there was widely a
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  Speaker 1: misinterpretation of what the treaty Principal's Bill was wanting to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it was widely misunderstood by the majority
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  Speaker 1: of people?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think for a lot number of people who
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  Speaker 2: do not understand what the treaty means and have nounderstanding
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  Speaker 2: of what history history of this country is or even
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  Speaker 2: the plight of Mardi in our country, I would say, very,
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  Speaker 2: very categorically, there's a lot of people who have put
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  Speaker 2: in submissions, will have submitted have a misunderstanding of what
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  Speaker 2: it means.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're going to be speaking very early this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're on at eight thirty this morning, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Can you give us a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: taster about what you'll be saying.
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  Speaker 2: Well, definitely, I'll be saying that we rejected and opposed
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  Speaker 2: the at the and also I think that that it
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  Speaker 2: should be rejected and opposed by the Select Committee. But
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  Speaker 2: more over than that than not, I really think that
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  Speaker 2: that you know that this is a breach of the
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  Speaker 2: three too white tonguey and and it will and it
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  Speaker 2: will be a breach forever no matter how they try
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  Speaker 2: to reinterpret the principles and pretty basically take over from
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  Speaker 2: the courts. You know, there's a difference between the courts
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  Speaker 2: interpreting this, you know, the principles from the acts. You know,
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  Speaker 2: government react ax and the court's interpret the acts and
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  Speaker 2: the police enforce the acts. So here we are we've
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  Speaker 2: got a government trying to do both.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Turdyt Moxham, thank you so much for your time
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  Speaker 1: and all the very best this morning. And it's an
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  Speaker 1: early start your submission at eight thirty this morning. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for your time. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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