Kristy Muir is trying to pinpoint the moment when she first realised the system needed to change. Like many conversations with Muir, an academic and social worker who in September last year was appointed to run the country’s largest philanthropic foundation, there’s no quick or easy answer to this question. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

Growing up in southern Sydney, Muir was always aware that “life is not necessarily fair or equal”. Her grandmother was a “kitchen table, social justice warrior” and conversations about social issues were the norm.