Here in Aotearoa—you see right now, I'm valuing the people who used to bring us some water and I wish I had remembered that memo—successive Governments lauded GDP as our prime measure of progress, but that focus can camouflage the real truth. For decades, our economic progress has come with a number of underlying conditions, the starkest of which are inequality and ecological instability. Our Government has done an incredible job so far of supporting those who need it most, but in some ways the need for that support is a symptom of the way we run things. For thousands, work has become increasingly precarious. There are more zero-hours or short-term contracts, more self-employed people with erratic incomes.