If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

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.

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.