Nine years after we marched for the foreshore and seabed, we started the battle to protect our moana from seabed mining and the extraction of 50 million tonnes of ironsand every year for 35 years. We put together submissions. As Ngāti Ruanui, we delivered petitions to Parliament, we held protest actions on the beaches, and we went to court and we won. We won and went to the High Court, we won and went to the Court of Appeal, and we're now waiting on the final legal decision of the Supreme Court. Banning new seabed mining permits and withdrawing Trans-Tasman Resources' existing permits are some of my top priorities, and I will be doing everything I can in my time here to put an end to the desecration that seabed mining will create in Aotearoa. In an era of uncertainty, our whānau need to know that our pataka kai is protected. 