Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Health and education are always issues.

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.

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.

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

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.