What I saw yesterday on the grounds of Parliament was the manifestation of that colonial vision: the disconnection from our Māoritanga; the alienation from our whenua, our hapū, our maunga, our awa, our language—our reo; the dysfunction within our communities; the intergenerational trauma; the years of never being heard. The whakapapa of this can only be traced back to colonisation. Colonisation has turned our worlds upside down and has rendered parts of the culture unrecognisable. It continues to divide us today because it feasts on our trauma, thus forcing us to disregard the very essence of who we are and who we once were.