Health and education are always issues.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

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.

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.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.