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Earlier this year Forbes magazine headlined an article - ‘creativity is the skill of the future’.

Te whare e tu nei

Thanks to the Ministry for Women, for helping to coordinate the many other events throughout the country that celebrate this enormous milestone in our journey to equality.

Welcome

Good morning and thank you David and your team at Westpac for hosting us today.

Te whare e tu nei

Te marae e takoto ana

Tena korua

Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Auckland, Friday May 18

E ngā mana, e ngā reo

 Ngā kai-hautū, ngā kai-mana

Nau mai. Haere mai.

Nau mai. Haere mai.

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, kā nui te mihi ki a koutou.

Thank you for the invitation to join you here today.

Kia ora and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. I am especially grateful to be hosted by FES.

Address to the Paris Institute of Political Studies

Tena koutou katoa

Address to the Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum Luncheon

E ngā mana, e ngā reo

Prestigious people, speakers of note

Ngā kai-hautū, ngā kai-mana

Organisational leaders, representative leaders

Thanks and acknowledgments.

I want to begin by acknowledging mana whenua. Ngāti Kawa, Ngāti Rahiri, and, of course, Ngāpuhi.

Last week I was reading papers, my latest and most consistent past time, when my phone pinged.

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

 Today is a new beginning. It's a new beginning for you as our Speaker, and I congratulate you again, Mr Speaker. It is a new beginning for this Parliament.

Delivered by Her Excellency The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand, on the occasion of the State Opening of Parliament, Wednesday 8 November 2017.