 Since my arrival in Australia almost 21 years ago, I've seen Australia make quite a bit of effort when I first got here on gender equity and we sort of stalled for the last 10 years. But we need to think about our ways to improve gender equity within our disciplines and within academia. And so I think Athena Swan of all the programs I've seen around the world is the program that seems to be having the biggest effect. It's really getting universities and research organizations to think about the problems and measure them, come up with ways to fix those problems and then act upon those problems and then re-measure and see how we've done. And so from my perspective it's the thing that I think has the best chance of making meaningful change in our sector. I see technology and science that underpins that technology as being really the big game changer for Australia in the future. If we do it well, we're going to remain a prosperous nation. If we do it poorly, then we're going to be less prosperous. We have a lot of talent across Australia and science and technology needs some of the brightest minds that Australia has to offer. All the evidence is that that's half in men, half in women. And when systematically we look at a university and we see that only 20% of our senior professors, for example, are women, you know you're throwing away a lot of valuable talent. That valuable talent is stuff we simply cannot afford to lose. From my perspective at ANU my hope is to by engaging more effectively with women I'm going to actually have an advantage over people around the world and an advantage here in Australia of attracting the best talent and that's what universities are all about. It's about attracting great talent and resourcing it to do great things. And if I have the advantage of getting an extra segment of the population, women, that's going to be great for my institution. I guess I've spent most of my life working with men and women, more men than women. My own Nobel Prize winning team had no women in it all. It reflected the generation of astronomers that I grew up with. I had a very strong mother who I guess taught me how valuable female contributions can be and that I don't want to see those contributions excluded. So to me it's just sort of almost a human rights aspect. It's something I feel very strongly that if we're going to have I guess a society I want to live in when that is equal I guess I need to help make the change. And so to me it's an actual absolutely fundamental part of living in a society that I want to be part of. One of the I think common misconceptions about dealing with gender equity is that it's a female problem. In my field which is 70% male the lack of women in it is a problem for the whole discipline. So it's a problem that men as well as women need to embrace. And so within the Athena Swan program and for example male champions of change and other great initiatives we have in Australia you know the role that men are going to be playing and trying to fix the problem is not to be understated. So I'm hoping to be joined by male and females in the Athena Swan program as it rolls out here in Australia.