The legislative pen at this first reading through to the Royal assent is to not erase the history but to inscribe into law; not to forget, not to rewrite, but to put right the his and the her stories, ngā pūtakenga kōrero [the sources of narratives]; to ink and atone for the blot and the blight of historical actions and omissions, the hara, to heartfeltly and properly remedy and make right, to make just. 