Ill just leave it there., But she didnt leave it there, picking up on a thread from our conversation in Waitangi earlier in the week. Sometimes, what youre promoting are things like wellbeing, these ambitious but intangible things. She doesnt want to lower the bar, to be someone who only has regard to political measures of success and says, Well, Im only going to set these ambitions, and talk in this way, because I dont want to be judged harshly for not having achieved them., When Ardern was made leader of the Labour party in 2017, she and Gayford were struggling to start a family. Who had sought refuge, or sought a better life for themselves or their families. And Im very proud to say to the good people of the Wairarapa that they elected a proud socialist as their MP.. By then, I had interviewed Ardern twice already: after a breakfast meeting at an Auckland hotel, and a few days earlier at Waitangi, on the northern tip of the North Island. A lot of pumpkin. One is the idea that you just talk, and you confuse people, and if you talk fast enough and quickly enough, etcetera, and no one can keep up and they think theyre the dumb ones, and youre the bright one, and they dont know what youre saying, but youre saying something and it must be important, because you sound like you know what youre saying. One Christchurch-based broadcaster issued an apology for an earlier column about Islam, saying, I look back at my comments ashamed. And in a powerful speech a week after the attack, Gamal Fouda, the imam of Al Noor mosque, where 42 worshippers were killed, said the murders did not come overnight, but were the result of the anti-Muslim rhetoric of some political leaders, media agencies and others. You think of Tony Blairs period, now, and what do people talk about? Theres something very grounding about that. So I think its implicit for him now, too.. Ardern stares out the question for several seconds, grimacing. It just wasnt something she thought about, she said, hardly at all. I was born one and politics has not beaten it out of me yet. A week ago, I asked her if the Christchurch attack had affected this optimism. US Vogue dubbed her the anti-Trump. Ardern is wearing a traditional Mori cloak and, even before she begins speaking, is given a standing ovation. Last week I went half a day with my shirt inside out., For Ardern, Neve helps keep things in perspective. But look closer and, encouraging though it may be, the reality of Labours budget falls short of the most effusive praise. You may know her as the youngest and third female Prime Minister of New Zealand, the first head of government to take maternity leave and the powerfully empathetic responder in times of crisis. 'For me, it's time,' she added, during her surprise resignation speech this morning. That morning, Friday 15 March, she had surprised a crowd of local school students who were taking part in the global climate strike. Most controversially, when it came to the superannuation surcharge a claw-back tax on high-earner pensioners that dented the programs universality the budget both raised the rate and expanded the number of people who had to pay it. So for me, that means always having a mind on, yes, the policy work, yes, the domestic work but actually what legacy do you leave through some of those bigger, overarching decisions as well? When the call came, Ardern was travelling in a minivan, sitting alongside the mayor of New Plymouth, a small city on the west coast of the North Island. By then, I had interviewed Ardern twice already: after a breakfast meeting at an Auckland hotel, and a few days earlier at Waitangi, on the northern tip of the North Island. She doesnt run out of words. Im only in government because two parties decided to work with us., Ardern alighted on the benefits of New Zealands system when I asked for her take on Brexit. She is very verbal. Given Ardern and her comrades had progressive answers to the financial crisis, those answers might now be used to guide us through the turmoil and hardship of post-Covid-19. 4. But for the time being they feel like the concerns of another time, another galaxy. We would be fools to believe political decisions are primarily evidence based. The couples mothers are the main backup unit, especially when Gayford is away shooting Fish Of The Day, his fishing-travel-cooking hybrid show for the National Geographic channel. Richardsons debt-and-surplus obsession lives on in this current government, which has consistently justified its resistance to more public investment by pointing to debt fears, and even took care to frame this budget as keeping a lid on debt and tracking a responsible return towards surplus through targeted investments. Labours continued refusal to get rid of benefit sanctions reflects a fundamental acceptance of Bolger and Richardsons moralistic distaste for welfare, as does its plan for a separate unemployment insurance scheme. I was in a hotel room. Cabinet is a massive beast. Of the Blair years more broadly, she said: What you do with policy, it demonstrated to me, can be completely overshadowed by decisions in principle. We never have been. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. The term has been adopted by socialists and communists for party members. I do not use "comrade"disparagingly here, as indeed Ardern herself used the term 15 times in just seven minutes at this public event. She put it frankly to me: I didnt know if I was going to be able to have kids., Then it all happened at once. Ardern agrees. The other is that shes actually pretty smart. In the reception area, a staffers preschooler son buzzes back and forth on a bike. Violence, and extremism in all its forms, is not welcome here. Steve Elers is a senior lecturer at Massey Universitys School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing who writes a weekly column for Stuff on social and cultural issues. Will she be speaking to him about his xenophobic rhetoric? Its a fair assumption to suggest that at the time of entering Parliament, an MPs political views and beliefs are set and are the motivation to enter politics in the first place. She crosses the office to her desk and pulls an A4 sheet of paper from a drawer. Simple, she says, nodding her head. She used to kick me a lot, but I would especially notice when I came on to marae [a Mori meeting place], probably because of all the noise, the haka and performances. Haere mai ttou me te aroha, me te rangimrie, ki te whnau nei, e ora mrire ai an rtau, e ora mrire ai an, ttou katoa. Jacinda loved living on the orchard in Murupara and learned to drive a tractor before she could drive a car! Richardson likewise complained about the excessive size of government spending, and she saw the cuts as a statement about the types of lives people should be encouraged to lead, she would later say: ones of independence and self-reliance. The fact that welfare rolls were only as full as they were because of the economic misery created by the preceding round of neoliberal reforms didnt seem to matter. Download our Taking the Lead word search here! It changes, probably more than we know, the way we work By our very nature, I think we probably do things a bit differently., Jacinda Ardern grew up in the conservative, rural North Island town of Morrinsville. Jacinda Ardern was in a van on her way to a school visit early on a Friday afternoon in March 2019 when a note was passed to her. For a school project, Jacinda interviewed former Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring and was very impressed by how friendly and helpful Ms Waring was. And so I see that there was a weight of expectation there. Sometimes, what youre promoting isnt tangible. Once every 30 seconds. Jacinda Ardern, former Young Labour president and political advisor, has just been elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth - a group encompassing socialist, social democratic and Labour Party youth organisations from more than 100 countries. I stand here as a very proud member of the great socialist democratic Labour Party, proclaimed New Lynn MP Deborah Russell. I was saying to someone the other day how long ago it feels since I was up north [at home]. Read the story being discussed on Jesse Mulligans show on Radio New Zealand on 17 May 2018. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three . If Id been [at home] in Auckland it would have been different, but I didnt have scarves with me. The news was announced via Instagram: Ardern, who still runs her own social media accounts, posted a photograph of fish hooks two regular sized, one tiny prompting copious media analysis. She resigned as prime minister in January 2023. This framing has, in turn, largely been rebroadcast by the press, which has painted a picture of a budget dyed the deepest red.. Soon he was joined by several others. Following the attacks, she points out, it was Peters who decided to travel to Turkey for a meeting of the international Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, where he met Recep Tayyip Erdoan; the Turkish president had been screening images from the terrorists video at rallies, and declaring that visitors from Australia and New Zealand who expressed anti-Islamic sentiments would be returned in coffins. Just a few months later it was revealed that the prime minister was pregnant. watched as international politics has continued to change while serving as the president of the International Union of Socialist Youthan umbrella organisation of over 150 progressive youth movements from . Gun law reforms, intended to ban all semi-automatic firearms, were expedited, with cross-party support. On the contrary, gun crimes rose to a 10-year high after the law went into effect, according to Radio New Zealand. Now, whether you agree with her political philosophy is where the difference lies. From the thousands at vigils to the 95 year old man who took four buses to attend a rally because he couldnt sleep from the sadness of seeing the hurt and suffering of others. Toby Manhire is the editor of New Zealand online magazine the Spinoff. And yet Arderns response, her choice of language, has mattered enormously. I pointed this out when we met again in Auckland, and Ardern leaned back with a sigh, knowing where this was going. The prime minister was deep in conversation with her press secretary when she arrived for the formal part of our interview at Waitangi in February. This past week in New Zealand saw an apparently spontaneous series of self-outings by professed democratic socialists among the countrys Labour Party. We will remember the tears of our nation, and the new resolve we have formed. Fifteen times. (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. To that end, they successfully shrunk the size of the state and the scope of its involvement in the economy, and they looked to make putting debt and surpluses ahead of people a permanent feature of politics. Of course she needed to project New Zealands voice, but her focus was on domestic priorities. Learn about the Netflix adaptation of Lockwood & Co, who the key cast members are, and when the show drops in Australia. Accordingly, to understand Arderns political ideology it is important to revisit 2008, when she entered Parliament as a Labour list-MP. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure. If anyone out there has a better photo let us know! Maybe with your sincerity, not your smile, suggested the photographer. READ MORE: * Iwi-run coronavirus checkpoints are a nonsense but police aren't stopping them * Prime minister needs to be held to account over coronavirus claims * Anti-virus measures are too late to stop needless sickness and economic pain. Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. A year earlier, she had become the first female prime minister to speak at the Waitangi pwhiri, a significant moment in the New Zealand calendar, and the youngest, at 37. Her partner is Clarke Gayfo Jacinda Ardern's graceful departure is the personification of modern democratic ideals Van Badham The New Zealand prime minister's bold and resolute leadership neutralised hoary stereotypes. No, she said. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure., After the service I meet Tofazzal Alam, a Bangladesh-born New Zealander who was in the Linwood mosque when it was attacked. Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (born July 26, 1980), also known as Aunty Cindy or simply Cindy, or Jabcinda is the far-left socialist globalist agnostic former Prime Minister and dictator of New Zealand.She served as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023, and is the second elected and third overall female Prime Minister of New Zealand after Helen Clark and the second . Terrible bone structure. I have been asking Ardern about her immediate response to the attack, which from the outset put a clear emphasis on inclusivity and solidarity. his interview was due to go to press the day the news of the Christchurch attacks emerged. Or do we all need to have the exact same amount of income and wealth? It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. As President, Jacinda got to travel the world even more with meetings in China, Lebanon and Jordan, to name a few. Those interviews took place in early February, and I followed the prime minister as she commemorated the 1840 signing of New Zealands founding treaty, between the British Crown and the Mori chiefs. Here was a progressive upgrade on Canadas Justin Trudeau: an outward-looking young woman in a global lineup still dominated by greying men. Pressure was mounting over a failure to meet targets on a flagship house-building scheme. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. Little wonder CPAG and other experts and anti-poverty campaigners have been bitterly underwhelmed by the governments announcement. What would it take to really reverse the Mother of all Budgets and its malignant legacy? Some of you may well know that, some years ago, I was the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. But even when we had no words, we still heard yours, and they have left us humbled and they have left us united. Its chosen not to forgive debt owed to the ministry in charge of welfare, nor acted on the WEAGs calls to lift punitive sanctions on beneficiaries. Also of note, rumour also has it that Jacinda may be running as a candidate for the Labour Party. My belief in the humanity of New Zealanders has strengthened. Jacinda is apparently known not just for her considerable intellect and political nous but also her hair - evidently Scoop thought so too, deeming it worthy of inclusion in this photo of recently confirmed Labour Rimutaka candidate, Chris Hipkins. Sometimes I think we tend to think about our own actions in confined ways, and we underestimate the impact that we have. She is sharp. In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, a role that took her around the world. Armed police are everywhere. Ardern was named Labour's spokesperson for youth . And skyrocketing living costs, thanks especially to an out-of-control housing market, have made these numbers worth significantly less since WEAGs recommendations. Arderns suggestion was that he could provide sympathy and love for all Muslim communities. Did they propose ideas that would stimulate the economy so businesses could thrive thereby creating job opportunities? 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