5. What Pacific workers told us E u’u no te akau roa ka oki rai ki te akau roa – The parrotfish from the long reef will always return to the long reef. Cook Islands Proverb This section outlines what we heard from the Pacific workers during our engagement for the Inquiry. The findings have been organised according to themes that are presented in an order that roughly follows the chronology of a Pacific worker’s employment from recruitment onwards. Voices of Pacific peoples 39