There was a very, very good reception, particularly from the local government in New Zealand, and that's where a lot of what we were trying to say was picked up, and many things started to evolve. So think of it as an empowerment of voice within local government, both executive and elected.
In terms of what happened at the central government level, it mainly played out in terms of what happened in the shift in research funding to all the areas around cities and settlements and the layers within that—so thinking about cities in a sustainability context. We raised a lot of issues around elements in that, like, for instance, the mobility land-use interconnections, all the water issues, both the potable water and the treated. We subsequently did another piece of work that we published under the title, Ageing Pipes and Murky Waters.
If you look through all our reports, we go to a lot of trouble to think about how you characterize the nature of what we're trying to talk about. So where we were looking at the flow of science, for example, into environmental policy, the title of the report was Missing Links. Where we were looking at economic instruments in terms of managing waste, the title was Changing behaviour.
Why am I saying that? I'm saying that because we need to be effective in this. You need to actually capture hearts and minds with those first simple things, and then they get grabbed by all sorts of people and picked up. It's an empowerment process.