When I was a young person, I went to hear Dame Cath Tizard speak at a women's rights conference. She talked about visiting a primary school where a five-year-old boy put up his hand and asked, "When you were young like us, did you want to be Governor-General?" She replied "No" and asked him: "Why? Do you want to be Governor-General when you grow up?" To which the little boy spat out, "No. I'm not a girl." While Dame Cath was New Zealand's first female Governor-General, to this little boy she was the only one he'd known. The story has always reminded me that not only can great change happen in one generation but, time and time again, it does, and there is much that still needs to be done.