Thank you, Bernadette, for allowing me to publish your speech notes here: NOTES to launch CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE by Bernadette Hall 1. Welcome here to honour Gail, to celebrate with her and Rata and Karen of Pūkeko Publishing this beautiful and oh so timely book. It’s beautiful, it’s very beautiful. And it’s full of intelligence, and surprise and energy that burns off the page. Well, we all know Gail and we recognise that energy. When I first met her in 2008 at the Hagley Wr