Our home is Aotearoa New Zealand. Our home was founded nearly 160 years ago when tangata whenua signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi, which notably was a rather different document to the Treaty of Waitangi that was put forward by the colonial English. These two very distinct architects had different blueprints in mind for the house that we would build, and we haven't done a sterling job at reconciling either of those plans in the century and a half since. That fundamental blunder has meant a number of New Zealanders—largely tangata whenua Māori—weren't factored into the design of this House. But the political pendulum has swung between building a longer table and removing seats in a punitive game of musical chairs. We are a richer country than we have ever been, but that wealth and access to it is more unequal than ever.