With support from the Minister of Finance and Treasury, we were able to confirm that Pacific peoples of Aotearoa contribute $8 billion to New Zealand's GDP—this is despite the barriers and inequities Pacific peoples face in housing, health, and education. Our collective challenge is to envision a future where these barriers and these inequalities are eliminated, and our Pacific package starts to go someplace, begins the work to reaffirm and confirm those foundations of a targeted approach, which helps us towards the right direction in removing those inequities and those barriers.