Dad's dream was to become a full-time farmer. When I was four, my parents bought a 1,200 acre hill country bare block on Omahina Road in Waverley. They dreamt of building a home for us there, but those dreams slipped away because the road to the farm was a path, a track too dangerous to use when it rained. The money they saved to build a home for us went on lawyers' fees, trying to fix the road. I still remember the look of defeat when my parents came home from court one day. It was then that I resolved to do all I could to help people like them get a fairer go.