I started with an artist to help me to explain my reasons for taking a stand; so I think it only appropriate I look to another one for my final dose of courage—Billy Bragg, a songwriter who has inspired so many of us with stories of hope, where the power of organised workers clearly enables progress to be made for all of us. To be in a union means much more than that; it includes our efforts to collaborate, to listen to and truly understand each other. It is a collective approach—community, iwi, farmer, youth, employer, and worker. Achieving a sustainable, timely, just, and equitable transition of our lives and rebuilding our economy is the most important work to be done for our nation, our children, and our planet. So to Billy for the last word: there is power in the factory, power in the land, power in the hand of the worker, but it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand. There is power in a union. Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.