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Speaker 1: Now some Youth parliamentarians are claiming government censorship after suggested

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Speaker 1: changes to their speeches. All youth MPs get a three

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Speaker 1: minute speech, but some say that the speeches were edited

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Speaker 1: to remove references to pay equity in the Treaty of

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Speaker 1: White Tonguey Principles Bill and so on. Nate Wilbourne is

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Speaker 1: one of the youth MPs who had their speeches changed,

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Speaker 1: and Nate's with us now high.

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Speaker 2: Nate got it.

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Speaker 1: Hello, what was the problem with your speech?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so a little bit of context here. So

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Speaker 2: I'm one of the one hundred and twenty three youth MPs.

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Speaker 2: I've come across altiedor the seet rivers in our communities

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Speaker 2: here in Youth Parliament. Essentially my speech which I'll be

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Speaker 2: giving tomorrow morning, topic of it is the war on nature.

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Speaker 2: And when I subve in my speech, because it was

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Speaker 2: part of the pro call, we have to submit our

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Speaker 2: speeches to the Youth Parliament Project team, I've got a

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Speaker 2: reply as well as an edited vision of my speech

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Speaker 2: where a majority of it was cut out and the

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Speaker 2: reply had quote unquote some of the speech lacks political

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Speaker 2: neutrality by criticizing dis government and current ministers so this

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Speaker 2: is what we believe. What I believe is a pretty

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Speaker 2: you know out their form of censorship of youth waltzes

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Speaker 2: here in this parliament.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to give it anyway?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Hell yeah, No, I'm going to be out there tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be why I intend to call up

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Speaker 2: Minister's Shane Jones from a poor Tucker Penny Simmons for

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Speaker 2: their actions and assault on nature, because that's you know,

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Speaker 2: I believe that I'm here to give my voice on

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Speaker 2: what I care about and what my community back in

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Speaker 2: Brightwater and my electric care about.

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Speaker 1: They reckon. This is the ministry, I reckon. It was

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Speaker 1: just suggestions they were making that it was really up

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Speaker 1: to you guys whether you whether you take those suggestions

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Speaker 1: on board or not. Is that true?

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Speaker 2: Totally? Well no, you know what I argue is that

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Speaker 2: the way that the phrase suggestions applies that they are

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Speaker 2: mandating these changes but never thought what they attend. The

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Speaker 2: subject line of the email that we got, like email

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Speaker 2: with ours speeches, stays changes require, which means that like

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Speaker 2: a USMP, you won't be as willing to ignore their advice,

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Speaker 2: may have a weaker speech as they'll be reading this

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Speaker 2: email from m id who's organizing the event, saying changes

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Speaker 2: require to their speeches. So it's you know, not really

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Speaker 2: more of a suggestion and rather more of a mandate,

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Speaker 2: is what I would.

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Speaker 1: Argue, although a mandate that you're ignoring, so not that

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Speaker 1: much of a mandate, is it.

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Speaker 2: Or you see, the thing is like I'm someone that

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Speaker 2: stands up for what I believe it and I kind

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Speaker 2: of came here because I believe and what I stand

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Speaker 2: for and to speaking up and seeking out. So that's why.

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Speaker 2: And like it doesn't even breach the standing order, just

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Speaker 2: breaches the guidance that we've been given by the Youth

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Speaker 2: Parliament team, which kind of goes against excitations that we had.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll be sticking up and I'll be naming

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Speaker 2: the current ministers of the government who you know, irrelevant

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Speaker 2: to my speech. Yeah. Hey.

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Speaker 1: They also say that what they're trying to do is

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Speaker 1: help you guys out and just make sure that you

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Speaker 1: don't get yourselves into trouble because you're not covered by

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Speaker 1: parliamentary privilege.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've had a whole lot of redic Like,

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate that they are looking out for us,

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Speaker 2: because you know, there is no like legal coverage we

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Speaker 2: have when we're sitting in the House. There's been a

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Speaker 2: lot of what I would call kind of fear mongering

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Speaker 2: by the project team as well. We've been told that

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Speaker 2: we can be such a defamation, but under the Defamation

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Speaker 2: Act of nineteen ninety two, to be the sammatory, a

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Speaker 2: statement must be published, which it will be by speaking

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Speaker 2: publicly in news parliaments. I must identify the person to

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Speaker 2: saints and it must be the sammatory that it harms

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Speaker 2: the person's reputation. But the thing is here is that

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Speaker 2: it also kind of goes against like the Bill of

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Speaker 2: Rights Act and section fourteen where it talks about the

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Speaker 2: freedom of expression, which kind of guarantees everybody the rights

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Speaker 2: freedom of expression, which includes the freedom to seecreceive in

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Speaker 2: part information and opinions in any kind of form. So

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Speaker 2: it's a bit of both sides here. But like what

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Speaker 2: we're saying, you know, we're here to hold the government

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Speaker 2: to account, and I guess it's kind of a dangerous

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Speaker 2: president for use engagement where youth voice is kind of

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Speaker 2: managed in this space rather than it being valued.

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Speaker 1: You know, Nate, thank you, good luck tomorrow night. Wilbourne,

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Speaker 1: UCMP for Damian o'connort.

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