When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health and school attendance. Every woman and girl has the right to live in safety in her home and community.

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

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.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

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.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.