Extraordinary times have been experienced not only in our city but in our nation and across the world. In my contribution today, I want to talk about the quality of leadership. It occurs to me that when we are in our most difficult times, we look to those around us for comfort, for support, but mostly we look to our leaders in the community for how we can find ways to get through. Nothing was surer than what happened in Christchurch on March 15, more than a year ago—that what happened immediately after that was that the community stood together behind our Muslim community but that, at the very top of our leadership chain, our Prime Minister stood and made some extraordinary statements to the world: that everybody in our community deserves our care, our love, and our support, and that we as a nation should stand with them—and we did. People from across our motu, from across Aotearoa, stood with the Muslim community in Christchurch at that time. But not only that, the world looked to us, as well, and looked to our leader and saw what an extraordinary amount of empathy, support, and compassion was being poured out from her, and our other leaders, into Christchurch.