When Te Paati Māori talk about the cost of living crisis, what we are talking about is the hard-working whānau not being able to afford the cost of basic necessities like food and petrol—whānau who already live pay cheque to pay cheque. This crisis is only deepening the entrenched, persistent poverty and deprivation that our people have endured for generations. That's why our solutions include shifting the tax burden from the poor to the rich, lifting wages, transformative changes to the welfare system, free public transport, regulating and breaking up the supermarket duopoly, and removing GST from food—a policy which a recent poll showed that more than 75 percent of this nation supports.