Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on Parliament getting temporarily suspended following public gallery haka

Oriini Kaipara is promising to use te Reo Māori as much as possible, as she launches her political life.

The newly sworn-in Te Pati Māori MP presented her maiden speech to Parliament today, followed by a number of waiata in the House.

Parliament was temporarily suspended when people in the public gallery broke out in a haka - met with dismay by Speaker Gerry Brownlee.

Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper recapped the day's events.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Listen. They're not brought broadcasting this thing on Instagram, so
it's just just ninety people on Facebook Live. And also
we have to talk about the Tom Phillips update today.
Right now it's thirteen away from five, Barry, so for
senior political correspondence with us Barry, Good afternoon, Heather. Did
you make of what happened in parliament?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well before that Roali White Tea on the Facebook feed.
I think it is announcing their review of the party.
The other thing is or reset sorry of the party.
I think it was reset in parliament this afternoon. Actually,
but he said, and I quote, since they've been in parliament,
they've encountered the vileless humans to ever walk the Spenawa.

(00:37):
So that's the flavor of the of the reset of
the Maldi Party. But look, there was bedlam in Parliament
again today, no doubt about it. The former broadcast Renny
Kayper she was giving her maiden speech, or about two
more than half of it was in Maldy. It went
on for more than twenty minutes, when the rules specifically

(00:57):
say that a maiden speech should be known more than
fifteen minutes. So the bell was ringing for five minutes
last five minutes of his speech, and I've got to
say after it, she came to the floor when they
burst into a waiata in the public galleries, and that
was by permission of the speaker. Clearly she came to

(01:18):
the barefooted, to the center of the debating chamber and
sort of led the waata. And at the end of it,
and you can see it quite clearly, she went into
hukka mode. So even though they may have had an agreement,
the party knew full well.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I think it was orchestrated.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I've totally orchestrated. And you only have to look at
the video to see that. Here's the end of the
waata and the Speaker's response to it.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Not that the guarantee was that would not be taking place.
The House is suspended.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Nobody took any notice at all. Quite disrespectful, Oh, totally disrespectful.
I've never seen anything like it in Parliament, honestly in
more than forty years. The House, as you say, was
suspended for more than half an hour. When it resumed,
the Speaker talked about that agreement.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
No one member is more or less elected than anyone else,
and the time that the House allocates for anyone to
speak in here is by agreement. And when we have
people coming into the house who decide they are not
going to abide by their agreements, then they put themselves
in a contemptuous position. The behavior in the gallery was

(02:51):
contemptuous and as my intention over the next couple of
days to find out whether or not that was by
agreement with any party inside this house, because people go
on to Mariah all over the country and respect the protocols.
We have a protocol here. It is our teacuner. That
Teakner is based, as I said before, on agreement.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's true, though, how do you rate his chances though,
that they're going to actually face up to him a
year we orchestra Well, no.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
You only have to look at the videos I've done
several times now to see that Ireny Carpara knew, kuiper
knew exactly what was expected following the waiata because she
went into hukka mode, and if they look at that
closely enough was orchestrated from the floor of the house.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
What's hukka mode, Well, it's you know, she's pulling the pookanna, pulling.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
The poocanna and waving her arms like the hakka are
you so? She will certainly doing it. So here's what
the new MP Copra had to say.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Greetings everyone, I'm not going to stand here and tell
you about the impacts of colonization on far No hapu
Ewe and even on me. That story is well documented.
One only has to turn to the handsard to see
in plain black and white how this government and past
governments have perceived our people. Instead, I will speak of resilience,

(04:13):
the resilience of Mari, the resilience that has carried us
through generations of struggle and survivals. We are the culmination
of dreams, of purpose, of hard work and intention. We
are here by design. I've broken barriers, but now I
choose to break cycles. I've covered stories and now I

(04:36):
choose to change them.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, well there you go.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, listen. The Michael Forbes investigation has stated the bleedingly obvious,
hasn't it that the Prime Minister's office should have been told?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, just to refresh your listener's memory, Michael Forbes was
the press secretary in Chris Luckson's offers who was essentially
recording videos of sex workers in Wellington, and the police
had investigated it. They decided not to charge Michael Forbes,
so it was kept within the police precincts and the

(05:08):
office of the Prime Minister wasn't alerted. Now the Department
of Internal Affairs, they've done an investigation into it. They
say that there should be no surprises and that's absolutely right.
I mean, you can't have a press secretary even if
the police decide not to charge.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, why, I mean there already is no surprises rule. Well,
that there should be a no surprises rule. It's that Andy. Andy,
Andy did know well, no, but.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It wasn't Andy that was running. Basically, Richard Chambers came
into the job of November last year, so it wasn't
that this year. Was it last year?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, I think Andy was in charge when when the
hookers took Michael's phone of a night or however long
Andy was in charge. Anyway, the cops should have told
the Prime Minister's.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Absolutely, and I'd want to know if I was the
Prime Minister and somebody in my office was filming hookers,
I'd say, look, I have to know.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
This lord, honestly, Barry, thanks very much, appreciate it. Barry
so for senior political correspondent.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
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Speaker 5 (06:08):
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