These are hot button issues.

We're talking about a lot of homes.

Done right, green homes don't have to cost any more to build.

The wolf is a hot-button species. It never fails to ignite passions, either for or against.

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

It's no secret that Maori issues are important to me. I can't hide that - I was the leader of a Maori party! People say that you have to be absolutely unbiased to hold a debate but I believe that's nonsense. I think everyone has a bias; it's how you handle that bias.