National previously embraced their Treaty obligations and the concept of partnership. Just look at some of the legislation that they passed in their time: Te Urewera Act 2014, which saw co-governance and, in fact, eventually moving to Te Urewera being the main governors in their rohe. Then there is the Waikato River Authority, an independent statutory board, enabling co-governance and co-management frameworks to work between the Crown and river iwi. The Act that established the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority is an Act that transferred ownership of 14 tupuna maunga in Tāmaki-Makaurau to 13 iwi to be able to co-governed. Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park provides for co-governance. Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island is where Ngāti Manuhiri with the Auckland Conservation Board have a co-management plan. Even Nick Smith saw the merit of partnership when he said about He Whare Āhuru, the Māori housing strategy at the time, that "The Government acknowledges the ambition of Māori and iwi to lead improvements in housing for their people, their desire to build on papakāinga land and the value they place on better housing and homeownership. It recognises that improving housing is a part of a long-term vision for Māori to control their own affairs and provide a better future for whānau now and for future generations."