One regret I have is that we have not, as a party and as a Government, had the courage to confirm in our Constitution Act the status of Māori as the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. I have tried on a number of occasions to put the bill in the ballot but it did not get through caucus. For a fleeting moment, when we came into Government in 2017, there was talk of it being a Government bill, but no Minister agreed to that course of action. I was then able to put it in the members' ballot but was directed to withdraw it prior to the 2020 election. As discussions around He Puapua, co-governance, and recognition of Te Tiriti o Waitangi become the focus of politicians and parties, having statutory recognition of Māori as tangata whenua and its first peoples would remove the propensity that allows people to ignore our reality as an indigenous people that continue to suffer the scourge of colonisation. Māori are not another ethnic group. In 2010, we signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, and it is time we took the most basic of steps and recognised our status as indigenous people in our Constitution Act.