I must confess that before I came to this place, I had very little knowledge and nearly no understanding of Matariki, and I don't particularly think I was any more out of touch than the average Pākehā New Zealander. I have to acknowledge my former colleagues Georgina te Heuheu, Nuk Korako, and especially Hekia Parata, my good friend and fellow 2008 intake, for their promotion of Matariki as an important cultural event, not just for Māori but for New Zealand. Particularly in Hekia Parata's case, as Minister of Education—one holding that role doesn't directly influence the curriculum in that way, but she was very encouraging of schools, early childhood education schools, and our institutions like museums and Te Papa actually creating a resource that would enable our young to be able to understand the cultural significance of Matariki, the celebration that goes with it, and then to actually use that knowledge as a learning tool, whether it was astronomy or mathematics or our history. On history, I was interested in Ms Whaitiri's comment about that being significant in her iwi for only 15 years. So I wonder, actually, if it's a case of this being a cultural tradition that perhaps had become a little bit lost in our modernisation through the 20th century, and it's really nice to see it come back as a strong and growing event for New Zealand.