Much of Mike's legacy is around trade, free trade, and promoting New Zealand to the world, and I'll come to his tenure at the World Trade Organization in a moment. But his early thinking on the benefits of free trade certainly paved the way for New Zealand's entry into the world of free trade. When the fourth National Government signed up to Closer Economic Relations with Australia, it was Mike who first saw, on the Labour side, how free trade and being open to the world could benefit the working class, or, as he put it, how the workers could get their hands on the loot. 