After a stint in Australia and working at Telecom during endless rounds of redundancies, I decided to go back to school. I completed my degrees in psychology and picked up extra work, often as a bouncer—should that be any of service to you, Mr Speaker—and in 2002, my young family made Christchurch home and I completed my PhD. I've been fortunate to work within science and to indulge my love of the human being through psychology and neuroscience. I've added my contribution to what we know about dementia disorders and remain committed to the need to improve our societal response to what is a growing issue. I've added my contribution to what we know about traumatic brain injury. As I had growing up, I saw that vulnerability begets more vulnerability. It remains too easy for young people who sustain injuries to end up within the criminal justice system and far too easy when the socio-economic factors are not in their favour. We must do better. 