We note that it intends to prescribe a clear decision-making process and provide the Māori Land Court with more discretion—we support that aspect of it—as to whether the partitions will assist owners on Māori freehold land to retain, occupy, or develop this land. However, as I've mentioned, in other bills and in any pieces of legislation that come in, the Government determines how Māori must account for what they're doing in their decisions on their own land, and there remains that paternalistic aspect of this bill, which seeks to determine what Māori should do once they have access to their own land. I would so love to see a bill which just gives Māori land back to the owners—the original owners—and allows them to just do what they like with it. Hence Hoki Whenua Mai and #LandBack. 