We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.