My departure has signalled the severance of the final link with the original board. I was the first replacement member after being appointed in September 2001. I've served under all five chairs (two of whom were temporarily in charge). I can't thank any of them enough for the learning I gained from serving under them, albeit in very different political times and, inevitably, at different stages in the YJB's evolution. I'd not been on the board long when the then Prime Minister Tony...