I'm actually not the first person in my family to work within these halls, though it has been a while. My great-great-grandfather, Samuel Marsden Baker, fluent in most dialects of te reo Māori, was the chief interpreter in the House of Representatives and was a close friend of the Rt Hon Richard Seddon. This cohort of my family actually spoke te reo Māori at home, which must have been very unusual for a Pākehā family at the time. My great-great-great-grandfather, the Rev. Charles Baker, first arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1828, and because of his association with James Busby, he was present at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and he is depicted in the famous painting by Leonard Mitchell. I'm proud to have this ancestral link to the Treaty, and it was a privilege attending the commemorations in Waitangi last week.