Over the last two years, we have seen whānau, hapū, iwi, and Māori organisations demonstrate exemplary leadership and step up to provide the Māori response, as the Crown had nothing in place and simply could not reach the places we could. It becomes clearer every day, especially given there is still no public Māori response plan for the Crown, that this will remain the case; that we cannot rely on the system in place at a national level.