[I thought I would begin my speech tonight in this way. I would like to acknowledge Sir Wira Gardiner and Dame June Jackson who have passed on this week and today. The hearts of the Greens are with their families at this time, because we in the Māori world know that they were legends, champions, experts and also committed to Māori, whether they lived rurally or in towns, so I must acknowledge them and their bereaved families on this day, as well as acknowledging the Hon Willie Jackson, as this was his mother who recently passed. I acknowledge them, in the language of Matariki, by using one of the phrases widely heard at funerals, they have all become stars in the heavens, they have all become stars in the heavens, both of them have become stars in the heavens this week. They have become stars connected to the Matariki cluster in the knowledge that one of those stars is Pohutukawa. At the time of Pohutukawa its focus is those who have died that year.