I really hope that for people who may not be familiar with this history—and I recognise the other speakers before me have gone through some of that history, but I will try and do that briefly again, just acknowledging Ngāti Maru. There'll be many New Zealanders who, as part of our process of colonisation, won't even know where Ngāti Maru is. Shame on us! So for those who don't, it is the rohe from Mount Taranaki east to the upper Whanganui, to the north-east of the Waitara River—lush, rich land. A land that was lived in richly and where there was not much contact with the colonisers in the early years of colonisation in this country, which made the confiscation of land for harms against the Crown that were never committed by Ngāti Maru even more painful. And I do, whenever I say "harms against the Crown"—perceived harms, because actually I think self-defence, you know, should be considered as self-defence, not harm. And then to see that Ngāti Maru—that so much of the land was taken. Again, I will say "stolen", because confiscation gives a sense of right and of punishment and the right of the taker to punish, which did not exist. This left people of Ngāti Maru basically landless, and when those treaties were made to the Crown, they were very slow in responding, and the harm was compounded by the Native Land Court. 