The Matariki public holiday will be a time where we can focus as a nation on celebrating the beginning of the first month of the Māori year. That is not to say that it will be the exact day that all tribes will focus on the turning of the year. Each tribe, each subtribe, and each family have their own protocols about how to celebrate the beginning of the new year. The important thing about the bill is to clearly signal a single day of the year where the beginning of the Māori year can be celebrated by everyone in Aotearoa.