Some of the most difficult conversations I've had to have over the last month or two have been with constituents in my Coromandel electorate, and they are people who have been impacted and affected dramatically by the events of the last couple of months. The economy in the Coromandel is, by and large, made up of small-business people: sole traders, family-run enterprises—people who have been hit very hard. Some of them are farmers, some of them used to run tourist operations, some of them used to run international tourist lodges, and some of them now no longer have businesses. 