Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): What New Zealanders have achieved over the last seven weeks is as humbling as it is impressive. We moved hard and fast as the COVID outbreak started to arrive in New Zealand. We moved into lockdown far sooner than other countries did, and, as a result of that, we didn't just flatten the curve, we squashed it. All New Zealanders—all 5 million New Zealanders—who have made significant sacrifices over the last seven weeks can reflect on that period with a significant degree of pride. It was an enormous act of compassion towards one another, where healthy people stayed home—healthy people, in fact, offered up their freedoms and liberties, the things that they would normally take for granted, because they recognised that some who were less fortunate, some who were more at risk, needed their protection and that the way that they could protect them was to stay home and save lives. And New Zealanders did it, and they did it willingly, and the fact that we are in such a good position as we move into level 2 tomorrow is a reflection of the hard work and the contribution that all New Zealanders have made.