"Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for the greatest privilege of my life." Jacinda Ardern has bowed out of her Prime Ministerial duties with one final trip to Rātana.
Politicians of all stripes descended on the small village near Whanganui for the political year's unofficial curtain raiser.
Draped in a korowai, the outgoing PM walked onto the pā with her party colleagues, on her last official day in the job.
'You do you' - is the advice she's given her successor, Chris Hipkins, who will be sworn in tomorrow.
Our political reporter Giles Dexter was there.
