I have been asking Ardern about her immediate response to the attack, which from the outset put a clear emphasis on inclusivity and solidarity. It felt very deliberate: was it? Lets do this, went the slogan. And how often should the reset occur? We cannot simply sit back and accept that these platforms just exist and that what is said on them is not the responsibility of the place where they are published. More than that, the countrys public debt is low, as are interest rates and, therefore, the costs of servicing it. Pressure was mounting over a failure to meet targets on a flagship house-building scheme. Intro 'Smiling socialist' Jacinda Ardern is trying to 'shut down free speech' Sky News Australia 3.08M subscribers Subscribe 8.1K Share 181K views 4 months ago Everyone should be concerned. Needless to say, Labours budget has nothing approaching this ambition, nor does it even try to reverse all this. The word progressive is a dirty word, to be blunt, in my philosophy. We are sitting on sofas in her office on the ninth floor of the Beehive, the circular building that houses the New Zealand government in Wellington. I occasionally go to events which may have quite a bit of profile and pressure around them. Really, upholding the community standards that theyve set themselves, I think, is what people are asking for Were asking for them to invest in ways to prevent the kind of harm we saw in the aftermath. I could hear her off to the side. Not today. We would be fools to believe political decisions are primarily evidence based. So I think its implicit for him now, too.. Oh, you know, sometimes you want things to be resolved a bit quicker, but I go in knowing I have to have those conversations. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. These stories, they now form part of our collective memories. If you would like a comment on this piece to be considered for inclusion on Weekend magazines letters page in print, please fill in the form below. The second press conference I wrote on my phone on the way to Wellington.. She is very vocal. But, otherwise, I dont tend to draw parallels. She paused. I am here today to bring with me the grief of all New Zealand, she said. Its 10, 11 oclock each night, going through cabinet papers. If Id been [at home] in Auckland it would have been different, but I didnt have scarves with me. After completing a communications degree, she worked for a short stint in the Beehive of the last Labour prime minister, Helen Clark, who recalls noticing Arderns promise when she was on a team drafting answers for parliamentary questions. Im making an assumption here, but everyone knows that raising kids is hard work and I dont expect theyd want someone to gloss over that or pretend its easy. And the tragedy is that most people are completely unaware that it is happening. He lives in Toronto, Canada. Shes not putting on an act. The answer lies in our humanity. You think of Tony Blairs period, now, and what do people talk about? 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. Of course she needed to project New Zealands voice, but her focus was on domestic priorities. Its intuitive. Dozens of buses are parked sideways around the perimeter, forming makeshift ramparts. It was naturally what you would do. Discussions surrounding a potential delay in elections gripped many countries around the . 1:30 PM 'I don't have enough in the tank,' complained 42-year-old Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Instead, Ardern and her comrades stated: Redistribution will lead to more financial stability and justice. CPAG estimates that families on welfare would need an extra $100$230 a week to stay above poverty, and that the Treasurys own forecasts only see child poverty dropping a mere 1.4 points to 17 percent by 2023, leaving at least 180,000 kids in poverty. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure. Because we are not immune to the viruses of hate, of fear, of other. She was raised a Mormon, but quit the church in her early 20s, principally because of its stance on homosexuality. Ardern was grinning. At school, her mother once revealed, she convened a happy club. Speaking at a Maori ceremony at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. The reality was that I went down into the shed, pulled out my fishing box and took out some hooks, Gayford told me earlier this year. After returning to New Zealand the 28-year-old entered . And women and girls around the world will be the better for it., From a closer proximity, and speaking before the Christchurch attacks, Gayford told me that what he found most impressive was his partners grip on the minutiae. This is at the Youth Socialist conference, she was the president in 2009, and she used the word comrade 15 times in eight minutes. In 2007 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Gun law reforms, intended to ban all semi-automatic firearms, were expedited, with cross-party support. And it took aim at New Zealands old-age pension system, raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty-five and freezing payments for two years. 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. Her partner is Clarke Gayfo Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's full speech at the opening of the APEC CEO Summit 2021. That was his instinct and it was the right one. In the hours after the attack, in which an Australian-born white-supremacist shot dead 50 unarmed people in two mosques, Ardern said that this was an act of terrorism. 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. (Hagen Hopkins / Getty Images). They wanted to redefine the relationship between New Zealanders and their government. Use the key to unlock the secret message! They are the publisher. The Herald reports:. And I go for the latter. When I had the all-clear to go down on Saturday, I asked a friend if they had something for me to borrow. I struggle not to smile, Ardern said through clenched teeth. Up on the ninth floor, the early morning sun scythes in through panoramic windows, the harbour just visible in the distance. She was being a little bit vocal, Ardern said when we met later that day, at the hotel down the road. They were stories of bravery. Its just the way I feel about people that talk like machine guns. As-salaam Alaikum. She had just seen her partner return to his spot in the third row of plastic seating with Neve propped up on his knee, having just had a nappy change in the back seat of a car around the corner. Jeremy Corbyns leadership led to a surge in left-wing membership in the UK Labour Party and ongoing wins by the partys socialists in local governments all over the country. He called his wife. That article told the story of a leader who was pledging to work harder to address the inequities still faced by New Zealands indigenous people. Just a few months later it was revealed that the prime minister was pregnant. She said this morning it doesnt mean anything, its just Im sorry, it does. Its nice that Labours not afraid of the word socialist anymore. She had, though, seen the shooters manifesto, the 74-page screed he posted online. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. And she speaks very quickly. 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. I think people dont want us to be perfect, she said. (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. Given we are facing what is likely to be many years of economic turmoil and hardship, the political ideology of our Government needs to be laid bare so we can gain insights into what a post-Covid-19 New Zealand economy might look like. A handful of words have been highlighted in bright orange. We have consensus really built into our system. They were words spoken by a community who, in the face of hate and violence, had every right to express anger but instead opened their doors for all of us to grieve with them. Opinion. The Spinoffs political coverage is powered by the generous support of our members. We hear you. Those values represent the very best of us. Thenprime minister Jim Bolger aimed to arrest New Zealands drift from work to welfare, end what he believed was permanent dependency on the state, and achieve a permanent and substantial reduction in the financial and human cost of welfarism.. The Guardians photographer asked Ardern to stand in the stripes, a film-noirish sort of pose. And skyrocketing living costs, thanks especially to an out-of-control housing market, have made these numbers worth significantly less since WEAGs recommendations. Labour refuses to implement a wealth tax or otherwise raise taxes on the rich, while continually placing more and more of the burden on consumers through regressive consumption taxes. (The tides of remembrance flow over Christchurch today.). In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, a role that took her around the world. These are my notes for the first press conference, she explains. 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. There is no question that [the] ideas and language of division and hate have existed for decades, but their form of distribution, the tools of organisation, they are new, she said. Are You Happy Now manages to be both extremely zeitgeisty but also timeless. But for the time being they feel like the concerns of another time, another galaxy. She was elected uncontested at IUSY's world congress held in the Dominican Republic yesterday. Now, the New Zealand Labour Party is getting in on the act, too. And the budget further tilted economic policy in a trickle-up direction, with beneficiaries losing one-fifth of their income (or as high as one-third for single-parent beneficiaries), even as the rich prospered. Jacinda Ardern served as the prime minister of New Zealand from 2017-2023. 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 . But personally, Id prefer a lineup of self-described liberals governing like socialists, rather than a group of proud socialists governing like neoliberals. The Guardians photographer asked Ardern to stand in the stripes, a film-noirish sort of pose. I didnt mean it that way. I look forward to hearing about the success of socialism in curing child poverty. I will always strive for better. When the shooting began, he threw himself to the ground. Here are a few things you might not have known about the leader of New Zealands Labour party: Jacinda was born in Hamilton on 26 July 1980 and her family then moved to Murupara, where Jacindas father Ross worked as a policeman. I dont know. Answer (1 of 14): 1. We may have left flowers, performed the haka, sung songs or simply embraced. It is actually a Marxist term. The information was patchy and it was very difficult to decipher exactly what had happened, she recalls. Photograph: Jessie Casson/The Guardian, Jacinda Ardern: Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. Following this morning's interview with Jacinda Ardern, hosted by Larry Williams in the absence of Mike Hosking - genuine get-well-soon wishes to Mike - Smith delivered an observation, an. (Later in the day I contact Gayford, host of a television fishing show and father of the couples nine-month-old daughter, Neve, asking for his official position on the prime minister having returned to coffee. (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. That doesnt necessarily apply to her. It's intuitive, ll show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. Terrible bone structure. But a closer look at the details shows how Labour plays a central role in that neoliberal order. 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. Some of you may well know that, some years ago, I was the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. Read the story being discussed on Jesse Mulligans show on Radio New Zealand on 17 May 2018. Limited though this announcement is, not even Helen Clarks Labour government in the 2000s dared to try and wholly undo Richardsons welfare cuts, a sign that things really are slowly shifting. The revival of socialism in mainstream politics has been one of the bigger developments of the last five years. Needless to say, all this is welcome news in a country where poverty is not only shockingly high but has stayed frustratingly static, even worsening over the course of the pandemic. She is sharp mentally. Humanity. And its good to see them, albeit slowly, adopting the commonsense point that putting money in the pockets of the least well-off is actually good for the economy. Also of note, rumour also has it that Jacinda may be running as a candidate for the Labour Party. Theres something very grounding about that. President Joe Biden welcomed socialist New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to the White House on Tuesday to discuss economic ties, gun control, and "space exploration" but not, reports indicated, Ardern's decision to use Chinese coronavirus measures to delay the 2020 New Zealand election.. Will she be speaking to him about his xenophobic rhetoric? Contact for complaints and communications under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, Constructive Criticism and Team Work In Politics. Oh, I get it now. So I actually think that, in New Zealand, we do things our own way.. Optimism is baked into Arderns character. According to the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), that funding will see families on benefits eventually get around $40 to $115 more per week, in line with the recommendations made by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) that Ardern convened three years ago and promptly ignored until last week. Within hours, Trump was doing the opposite, throwing his weight behind a Fox News broadcaster who had questioned the patriotism of a Muslim congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, because she wore a hijab. A fight was brewing over the possible introduction of a capital gains tax. Get our print magazine for just $20 a year. In the reception area, a staffers preschooler son buzzes back and forth on a bike. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Earlier that decade, she lived for two and a half years in London, where . 17 April 2021 9:00 AM There she goes, New Zealand's Wonder Woman, striking a model's pose on the cover of yet another women's magazine, Thrive, dedicated to the wellness mantras Ardern herself spouts. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. We as young socialists believe in a social democratic system which secures a redistribution of resources.. I hadnt thought about it in those terms. The very mention prompted a grimace: There are very few international political experiences quite like Brexit. But she wouldnt volunteer any advice for Theresa May, who at the time had narrowly survived a no-confidence motion. If you could see the amount of reading that is required in that role. Now, whether you agree with her political philosophy is where the difference lies. Sometimes I think we tend to think about our own actions in confined ways, and we underestimate the impact that we have. We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness. In the past weeks, New Zealand has reckoned with its own history. Ardern agrees. My belief in the humanity of New Zealanders has strengthened. 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. I thought, yeah, that looks all right, thatll do.. Does that mean that the clock needs to be reset so everyone is equal again? If you value what we do and believe in the importance of independent and freely accessible journalism tautoko mai,donate today. And you dont pick that sort of thing up because youre not a Marxist. She resigned as prime minister in January 2023. At the UN in New York last September, Ardern made the case for action on climate change, and for kindness and empathy in politics a message amplified by the fact her partner and baby daughter were sitting next to her. Shes not just leading a country, gushed Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg last year. E te whnau o APEC, ka mihi a Aotearoa Niu Tireni ki a koutou katoa. Let that be the legacy of the 15th of March. Its been folded in half, and in half again, and again. While that suite of reforms had seen a mass sell-off of state assets and the dismantling of New Zealands extensive system of regulations and economic controls, it had left its welfare state mostly untouched. Even in utero, Neve had made her presence known. Ki ng mate o te ao. We gather here, 14 days on from our darkest of hours. Meeting Muslim community leaders in Wellington following the attack. It turned out the strict gun law Ardern championed failed to curb gun crimes. They will remain with us forever. Shes not putting on an act. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. I get asked: Do you compare yourself to X or Y politician? and Ill then get a string of male politicians from around the world mostly, to be fair, because there arent too many females. Racism exists, but it is not welcome here. If anyone out there has a better photo let us know! She may have been referring to Ardern speaking at the International Union of Socialist Youth's World Council annual meeting in 2009, where she used the term "comrade" several times - a term used . Once every 30 seconds. In this respect, New Zealands 2021 budget looks less like a repudiation of Ruth Richardsons ideology than the furthest left you can go while operating under it. And so I see that there was a weight of expectation there. Thats all.. She was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 2008. . However, she just couldnt stop her desire to help others and ended up working at a New York soup kitchen, serving food to the poor and homeless people of the city. Jacinda is more communist than she would like people to believe. Talking to mourners after the national remembrance service in Christchurch. So I asked if she had something I could borrow, because for me it was just a mark of respect. 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