Both my koko and father worked at the Pātea Freezing Works, alongside generations of their whanaunga. When the works closed in the early 1980s, I was a sixth-former at boarding school. I saw firsthand the ensuing Rogernomics era: deregulation, subsidies removed, mass redundancies, and the slashing of income support. Redundancies hit my home town, Pātea, really hard, resulting in many of our whānau leaving for the first time since muru raupatu to pursue mahi. We watched as businesses, banks, and health services packed up and left. Schools struggled to stay open and average incomes plummeted as whānau tried to survive. Once again, we were being devastated by decisions being made in this House.