Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
Representatives of more than 100 companies, from 15 countries have been in Auckland this week for the government's Infrastructure Investment Summit.
Between them, the companies control six trillion dollars in assets and the government is hoping to create a pipeline of investment.
Among the speakers were the big hitters of te iwi Māori, including Chair of Waikato-Tainui's executive Tukoroirangi Morgan who said he told the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon last year, if they attend they don't want to be tekoteko or carved figures sitting in the crowd.
I started by asking Tukoroirangi what he thought about the summit.
