During the pandemic, Te Paati Māori was proud to work alongside Whānau Ora and our grassroots hauora providers across the country to hold Government to account and to pressure them to ensure that funding was invested directly into our own front-line organisations. This was essential in turning around the Māori COVID response and it led to its huge success—surprise, surprise. If given the chance, we know how to look after each other; we just need the Crown to step out of the way.