As a new MP, I was asked to take on this bill, and there is a reason that I was delighted to do so. Fifteen years ago, I was a fresh, young graduate starting my professional career in a small public sector agency in Wellington called the Leadership Development Centre. I was given a role in communications, despite having no formal training in this type of work. Instead, I had spent quite a few years at university, where I had learnt to pad out my essays in order to reach the required word count. My boss, Bruce Anderson, who was a pedant and a former teacher of English, used to red-pen my letters and documents, and I soon learnt the importance of brevity and clarity. I was sent on some plain English courses with an organisation in Wellington called the Write Group. Now called Write Ltd, the team at Write, led by founder Lynda Harris, work with organisations to make their written messages clear. The training they gave me helped undo the habits I had developed at university and gave me the writing tools I needed to communicate clearly.