It's been a big year. I'd like to acknowledge our Prime Minister and the Government's leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cautious health approach was the best approach. As Māori, our response too was cautious. Our experience is that our whānau were devastated when the flu epidemic pandemic hit Aotearoa in 1918. It was our people who put in place our own Māori pandemic response plan and exercised our mana motuhake to lead our own solutions. Right around the country, whānau, hapū, iwi, and our urban Māori organisations demonstrated exemplary leadership and stepped up to provide the Māori response, as the Crown simply had nothing in place. Māori mobilised establishing Māori communication channels to protect whakapapa; set up core hubs; assisted those who could not afford to hoard groceries, sending out kai and sanitation packs; and set up iwi community checkpoints, working with the police to discourage inter-regional travel. 