As Rawiri said in our first reading contribution, Matariki did not mark the new year for all hapū and iwi in Aotearoa, and we maintain many traditions across the country. Rawiri acknowledged, also, the tradition of his people, Autahi, while my people of Taranaki and Whanganui and others acknowledge Puanga. Puanga, for people of Taranaki especially, is about the recognition of lost ones who have passed beyond the veil during the year gone. Puanga also acknowledges the environment and ecosystems of our land and our water. It would traditionally be a signal of time for our people to get their crops in order and to hunker down for winter. It now also is a time for planting and sowing the soil for preparing for the coming year and for strategising and planning as a people. It represents change that is needed in Aotearoa, especially now we have left what was the new old norm to go to a new norm. According to a whakatauākī, "E rua tau ruru, e rua tau wehe, e rua tau mutu, e rua tau kai."