FijiFirst MP Alipate Nagata has stressed in parliament today that the maintenance of archaic and outdated ideas and claims that has bedeviled this nation for decades have to change to accept the new reality and challenge of this post modern world.

While responding to the President, Jioji Konrote’s opening speech in parliament, Nagata says that simplistic thinking that reduces the complex elements of economy, culture, tradition and politics into a volatile explosive, tainted by lies and half truths were so perversive in the recent months prior to elections.

Nagata also urged the people in parliament not to obstruct the wind of change and progress that is currently blowing across this country.

While delivering his maiden speech in parliament, Nagata also acknowleged his family and friends for their endless support leading up to and after elections.

Nagata also acknowledged the contribution of the late Adi Kuini Teimumu Vuikaba Speed, a former Deputy Prime Minister in Fiji under the Labour government, adding that the late Adi Kuini’s outspokenness in national affairs from the multicultural perspective is a source of inspiration to him in his political career.