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

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

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.

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?

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

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.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.