Mr Speaker, when we campaign to enter this House, we learn to tell our story, and this is mine. It is a story of political activism, of seeking change. It is the story of why I am here. It is a story of a family who first immigrated to this country 179 years ago. My ancestry in Aotearoa stretches back to the first Pākehā settlers in Nelson to Dalmatian gum diggers and their families and to immigrants who arrived in the 1920s. 