 Thank you, Kulo and Hwasa, and all at Texo College for the most amazing hospitality that you've shown to us, even in the two days that we've been here, but I've been feeling that welcome coming for months, I think, since we decided to come to Nagaland, I feel like we just said the word, and Nagaland came to us. It's been a wonderful experience. Now, if I was speaking in Australia, we would acknowledge the indigenous people of the land on which we were meeting, and I do that now in terms of acknowledging the indigenous Naga people as the traditional owners, or the owners of this land on which we're meeting today. It makes it an even more special experience to be here, and I thank you for hosting us. As I said, it's so well, I feel like I've been welcomed for some time, but to actually, to have arrived at Dimapoa, it felt like a fantasy, and I pinch myself to say that I'm really here. But not just here, but also in the company of such special guests, and Shri Abudmita, advisor to the Chief Minister, and I look forward to hearing your speech later this morning, Dr Stella, Sister Stella Murray, lovely to meet you and to have you here with us. It's a wonderful opportunity that we have to bring people together and to introduce new friendships and collaborations, so thank you very much for coming. Dolly Keekon, as you've heard, has been a wonderful mentor and driving force behind this, and anyone who's been in Dolly's orbit will know that she also expresses that welcome to Naga Land from the moment that you meet her and has provided so much momentum for this project, and so many other distinguished guests here today. But most of all, it's been the students that have been at the heart of this project, and again it makes the students so much part of the success of today's and tomorrow's proceedings. We do have a gift bag for each of the student groups that are represented here, and we'll make that presentation at a later stage. And again the final gift that we gave, and it's so fitting that it be on Naga Day because we've presented gifts of books around the Indigenous culture of Australia, something which I'll talk about in a moment because it's a very big part of what we do as a university, and it speaks to the project that you all here are embarked upon. So I'm just making a few comments about the history of this project, and in part it shows how amazing things can stem from small interactions provided you seize the opportunity. And in saying that I really want to pay credit to Professor Priya Daniels who showed that initiative and took up the opportunity of a United Board Fellowship, which allowed her an opportunity to spend some time at a university in the Asia Pacific region, and also did a course at Harvard University for four weeks in leadership. Now I was also fortunate to be approached by someone from United Board asking me if I would host a United Board Fellow at the university, and I think before Priya arrived we already knew it was going to be a perfect match. And from that time on, Priya and I spent three months really working together I would say, and it was a truly reciprocal mentoring process. I learnt I think probably more from Priya and certainly had more opportunities opened up to me than I feel I could ever pay. And in part that's what prompted this Leading Together initiative, which of course has grown since that time, as others have been able to see the potential of it and to realise what a strong partnership we can make together. So that first conference was in Stella Maris College in Chennai, and it was really a partnership between the two colleges, two universities. I was very committed to going to Stella Maris as soon as I could to sort of give back in some ways, and that was quite overwhelming. We felt then it was just going to get bigger and bigger, and then of course the pandemic came, and for a while it felt like, well, no one really was confident enough to do very much. But as the pandemic wore on and we realised that we couldn't just sit in our own bubbles as we were, but we needed to reach out and build those partnerships again and also even extend them. And I think it was particularly important during that time when we couldn't meet that we expanded in an online environment and we hosted a wonderful gathering online, Leading Together 2021, which was Dialogues on Women and Leadership, and at that point we introduced three other institutions into this collaboration. So it's Savitra by Fulipuna University, Tetsuo College, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Guwahati. And here we all are now even more enthusiastic with more people and with a more ambitious programme. So I feel like it has an enormous amount of momentum. The Leading Together project really opened my eyes in many ways to the potential that is in each one of us, in each one of our students who were challenged to inspire, create and bring something part of their culture together and to explore ideas through creative practice and the potential that we saw was immense. And we're only beginning. We planted the seed, I feel, and we're only beginning to see the benefits of that. The students who have experienced it have wonderful words to say about it. They enjoy working in teams to come to Leading Together. They enjoy exploring their own culture to prepare a presentation for Leading Together. And they also, I think, discover and have an opportunity to meet with others that they might never have met before. When we first started it, we thought it was a sort of bilateral Australian-Indian partnership. It's grown to an Indian-India partnership and I feel like we're just carried along by it. And it's brought us to some surprising places. So the conference here in Nagaland, I suppose we never thought we would be here, but it comes at a very special time for the University of Melbourne, where we've recently adopted a strategy which focuses on our responsibility to the first people of Australia. You know the colonial history of Australia. It's been a long process of acknowledging that colonial history and of coming to terms with the impact that that has had on the Indigenous people of Australia. The University itself has been very much a traditional sort of Western institution, colonial, if you like, in some of its traditions. And so we've had to reflect on our practices and really embrace a transformative approach to education, research and our curriculum. What we've tried to do, if you like, is to decolonize ourselves, which is an enormous challenge, but an important one if we're able to move forward and indeed to implement some of the important strategies within our Indigenous policies. One of those has been to build a global Indigenous Knowledge Centre, and I think this is an area where there's a lot of potential for further collaboration. This institute is advancing research and education on Indigenous Knowledge Systems, not only in Australia but globally. There's an enormous potential for collaborations between Indigenous First Peoples and Tribal Peoples across the globe. That's an area where we, white people, step back. We let our Indigenous colleagues step forward and they're running that area and I'm sure you'll be hearing from them in future, and in fact I think there's already conversations that are developing. So it's very much a two-way project, our Indigenous strategy. It aims to deepen the institution's knowledge of Indigenous culture. It's once the institution but also individuals to take on that knowledge and part of our acknowledgement to country is recognizing that we meet, we work, we play and we learn on the lands of the Indigenous people. We also see the really important contribution that education makes. Many Indigenous people were not in Australia, did not have an education, were denied an education and were in fact sort of often exploited as unpaid labour for many, many, many decades. So it's time for us to focus and the nation has for some time but the university is now really stepping up in terms of acknowledging the short-term and long-term benefits of education that we'll have for our Indigenous people and we see, we now have Indigenous professors, we have leading spokespeople in Australia from Indigenous backgrounds and it is a time in which our Indigenous knowledge and our Indigenous talent is coming to the fore. Particularly important has actually been the development of Indigenous businesses and it's quite a sort of a revelatory moment to realise that a small amount of money can make an enormous difference, a small amount of economic activity amongst an Indigenous community can make an enormous amount of difference. I know that Sister Stella has worked in the area of micro-financing and I'm sure she can tell you much more about this than I can but at the university we have a Indigenous People's Entrepreneurial Centre that works with small businesses to empower Indigenous Australians as entrepreneurs and they've had over 300 Indigenous entrepreneurs go through this process and many have gone on to establish Indigenous-owned and managed businesses and in turn are employing people within those businesses. So further contributing to not only their own economic status but also the economic development of their people. And we know that education has an economic impact. It's both short-term and long-term. We know that the research and I've read, well, bank reports on this that it is a long-term investment. It's not a quick turnaround at a national level but at an individual level it gives back immediately. So the benefits of education to individuals are initially not only financially but different opportunities in life, life chances and also certainly for many women it's an opportunity to have some independence and to have a greater say in their household management. And of course I don't need to tell you about the international level of education. It's phenomenal now that international education is the subject of trade talks and no doubt India and Nagaland will be significant contributors in this area. I know that Nagaland has an outward-looking perspective to not only India but also places beyond as we've heard from Kullo this morning. So I've described these activities mainly because I feel that they're a very big picture but they're also part of the principles of leading together that we're sharing knowledge, that we're collaborating, that we're building partnerships and we're building them on a one-to-one level but we know that in building those partnerships there's the opportunity for those to grow into something much bigger that we don't need to be driving or being at the heart of we know that that momentum will develop. So for the University of Melbourne it's been quite a humbling process. What I think we've seen has been a truly cross-cultural collaboration and from my perspective it's really opened up a whole world of possibilities to me. It gives me much more presence to speak about internationalising our curriculum which is a priority for us. We know that we teach a Western curriculum. We want to internationalise it. We want to recognise our Indigenous knowledge within Australia. We want to recognise Indigenous knowledges across the world. The program of leading together has also strengthened networks of students and I think what I've heard from the feedback from previous Leading Together conferences is that that's a real high point for students to be able to meet other students from around India to form relationships, to form collaborations and over time I hope friendships and wider networks. So it was a small beginning I think with two people meeting and seeing possibilities on building it and I think when you've got a good product it's easy to sell. So we've got other people on board really easily and managed to bring ourselves here to this point. And it's at this point today where we're ready now to sign a memorandum of understanding between the five institutions that we've been working with. This memorandum of understanding is both an expression of our existing collaborations that we've undertaken but it's also an expression of the future of the possibilities that they may have ahead. So one of the areas that we'd really like to develop in future would be collaborative teaching, collaborative research. We've been talking just before about post-doctoral exchanges. There's so many opportunities that exist across these five institutions not just collectively but also bilaterally. We're looking at discussions with each individual university both between Melbourne University and Indian universities but also I would hope between universities in India. The memorandum of understanding feels like a step along the way. It's a formality but an important one that commits our universities to collaborating and to working together and furthering these relationships. But I think more importantly are the individual and group relationships that we make while we're here and it's those that will really make that memorandum of understanding meaningful and bring it to life. So thank you all for being here and please enjoy the next few days as I know I will. And I hope to meet as many of you as possible. Thank you.