I want to use my five minutes to help the world understand what goes on behind the scenes to get you here today, to share the extent of your commitment to developing a peaceful, future-focused Aotearoa. I want to help the world understand that after years of Government systemic failures; legislation that worked against you, nearly wiping out your history, your stories, your language; being educated in education systems that don't recognise you; your native language, having to learn again; and local government that forgot your roles as kaitiaki, Government that forgot your roles as mana whenua, and us as whanaunga forgetting how we lived together, here you are. To the songs and karakia you've had to relearn, the wānanga you recreated to learn about our tūpuna, the pain you endured, and the huge hours outside of your normal jobs, the time away from whānau, the travelling, and all you did to remember ourselves. The research you spent hours and hours finding to unravel the many stories, the agreements, agreeing to disagree, walking away when you couldn't agree, the need to reset and try again—all of that, and it's all still related. Nowhere else in the legal system is the perpetrator allowed to determine the process, yet here we are, whānau mā.