Which brings me to the Green Party's priorities, which are, and for a long time have been: one, to protect and restore our natural world; two, a fairer and more inclusive community; and, three, a clean, zero-carbon economy. So to have a New Zealand Prime Minister devote as much time as ours just did to placing climate change at the heart of our nation's economic strategy in her opening address to Parliament gives me hope, and it should give some hope, too, to all of the scientists and the activists, the school strikers, the parents, the business people, and the regular folk who have campaigned for so many decades to make it so.