When I hear the stories of my tīpuna, I hear leadership and I hear courage. I close my eyes and I imagine our people as the providers of sustenance that feed our wairua, our tinana, our hinengaro; leaders that walked and talked with kotahitanga; I see respect and responsibility; I see sacrifice for the collective; and I hear the projectors of our indigenous truth through a language that was born of this land and our mātauranga that was born of the skies; and I see fierce protection of our honour and our mana. All of this, all at once, and never at the desecration of the mana of others. E te iwi Māori, kia mōhio mai koutou [To Māori, please be aware], when these mandates have lifted, we will still be left here fighting against the racist system that is still designed to kill our "beastly communism". We will still be faced with Māori health inequities, Māori education disparities, Māori being the highest incarcerated peoples in the world. Māori will still make up 50 percent of the social housing waiting list and 67 percent of the tamariki in State care. We will still be over half of the people in emergency and transitional housing. And the Māori unemployment rate will still double that of non-Māori. That is the true plight that we as tangata whenua have been fighting for near on 200 years, and we will continue to fight once the mandates have been lifted.