If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

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.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.