Thank you for inviting me to join you today.
I want to use this time to get to know each other.
I want this time with you to be a moment where we talk about our vision for a better Aotearoa.
And I want to use this time talk about the actions needed to realise the dreams and hopes of working people.
Like many in this room, I grew up in a nation where people exclaimed this was a great country to raise children in. It was 'gods own'. A pavlova paradise.
As a child I didn't really understand why they said it so emphatically. I knew no world other than 1970s rural New Zealand.
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