Churchill also said, "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us." My speech here today is for all the men and women farmers, the fishing folks, and all of New Zealand blue-collar workers, like all those who risked to dream beyond the war, that allowed the rest of us, in time, to do the same. People like Geoff Bale, the sheep farmer who became a living metaphor for all of those that desired to farm, would go to any lengths to hold on to what was dear. He was one of so many who chose to risk everything to preserve a life I now choose to enjoy, a life of freedoms that, sadly, evermore seem to be taken for granted.