Well, my voice does matter, and my Māori voice does matter, and I refuse to be silenced and shamed, especially by my own people. By ending this obsession with constitutional reform, we can get stuck into the real problems in this country: education, housing, welfare, and crime, which Māori get the worst end of. We would use practical solutions that change real people's lives for the better. Charter schools were just the start of that, and, by the way, Willie Jackson supported disestablishing these. Something else far more important would happen. People who feel alienated would find a place in the Kiwi identity. Māori culture would be taken for what it is—a rich and essential part of New Zealand's tapestry that is no threat but there to be embraced along with every other culture that makes up our country. In the words of Sir Peter Buck, "Beware of separatism. The Māori can do anything the Pākehā can do. But in order to achieve this we must all be New Zealanders first."