On 5 May—today—18 years ago, in 2004, there was a gathering of some 20,000-plus people who arrived on the Parliament grounds in protest to the Foreshore and Seabed Act. That was the origin and the beginnings, the seedling stage, of the Māori Party, when Dame Tariana Turia crossed the floor, left the Labour Party, came to the other side, and formed the Māori Party. 