No one should underestimate the importance of diversity, the important role diversity plays in ensuring Budgets serve all of our people in Aotearoa. In one of his first interviews, the Leader of the Opposition said that he didn't see Māori, that he didn't take into account who a person truly is when determining who would sit on his front bench. In that one reply, he told Māori that he does not see them, that National is blind to who we are and to what we stand for.