Currently, large tracts of Māori-owned land are underperforming for their owners and this is largely due to the constraints stemming from current legislation. If we can improve the performance of productivity of Māori land, it has the potential to provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the economic and cultural benefit of its owners, their whānau, and their hapu, while at the same time ensuring that there is better guardianship of the land—better than letting it go to gorse and not being utilised at all.