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. But Peters decided against backing the three-term incumbent National party. Oh, you know, sometimes you want things to be resolved a bit quicker, but I go in knowing I have to have those conversations. Ardern was already famous for her youth; the news that she was to become only the second world leader to give birth in office (after Benazir Bhutto 28 years earlier) went round the world. Ardern agrees. I just know we have a lot of work to do to make that universal.. 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. Act of exraordnry violence. She doesnt need to, she suggests. The revival of socialism in mainstream politics has been one of the bigger developments of the last five years. She knows what she wants, she knows where shes going, she fessed this morning and said shes a progressive. Here are some of the best-non fiction audiobooks read aloud by the authors themselves. Jacinda governs by dictate. 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. When she was made leader of the Labour party, with weeks to go before the 2017 election, the campaign was built around a self-described relentlessly positive outlook. So I actually think that, in New Zealand, we do things our own way.. 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. All the talk of a budget returning Labour to its roots starts to ring hollow when even one of the countrys leading business advocacy groups thinks the government was a mite stingy on helping the poor. But look closer and, encouraging though it may be, the reality of Labours budget falls short of the most effusive praise. The Guardians photographer asked Ardern to stand in the stripes, a film-noirish sort of pose. David Hills new picture book Taking the Lead: How Jacinda Ardern Wowed the World is a treat for both adults and children, exploring the life and career of one of the most popular world leaders with beautiful illustrations by Phoebe Morris. They resolved against the flip-flops, and settled on flats. I am here to stand alongside you We feel grief, we feel injustice, and we feel anger. She said it wearing a headscarf, an expression of solidarity that sprinted around the world. I never met him while I worked for him. I look forward to hearing about the success of socialism in curing child poverty. Did they propose ideas that would stimulate the economy so businesses could thrive thereby creating job opportunities? Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 17 April 2018, Berlin Kia ora and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. Printed on the back is the running order for an event she hosted in Auckland the night before the attack. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . What would it take to really reverse the Mother of all Budgets and its malignant legacy? The fact is that she is talking the second the question is finished, if not before. She wooed the world with talk of kindness and compassion, while at home ruling like a dictator. Theres no point at which you can say: I give up on being a parent or I give up on doing this job., There is no nanny. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. Ardern was grinning. The Iraq war. Let our Puffin Ambassadors tell you why you should pick up Coastwatcher, a thrilling adventure novel for 9+ readers. 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. A filter will be available to find the specific debate / speech you wish to view. I will always strive for better. Earlier in 2008 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. In an event like this I can only assume, because Ive never been through one before theres not a lot of time available to think about the language you want to use. 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. But the answer to them lies in a simple concept that is not bound by domestic borders, that isnt based on ethnicity, power base or even forms of governance. And the tragedy is that most people are completely unaware that it is happening. On the contrary, gun crimes rose to a 10-year high after the law went into effect, according to Radio New Zealand. It is actually a Marxist term. Towards the end of her Waitangi speech, she had quoted Michael Savage, the venerated Labour statesman who led the party to government for the first time in 1935: We dont claim perfection, but what we do claim is a considerable advance on the past. Its a line that Ardern had rolled out in at least three big recent speeches, and felt, in part, like a plea to dial down the Jacindamania a call to pragmatism. So I asked if she had something I could borrow, because for me it was just a mark of respect. At school, her mother once revealed, she convened a happy club. Its 10, 11 oclock each night, going through cabinet papers. The conversations about it afterwards Ive read these pieces where people have analysed the likes of this [speech], she says, waving the A4 sheet of notes in her hand, grimly laughing. 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. This means Ardern must negotiate with both NZ First and the Green party to advance any legislation. She was raised a Mormon, but quit the church in her early 20s, principally because of its stance on homosexuality. That, very quickly, was clear to me, when I heard that a mosque had been targeted. She worked only very indirectly for Blair, she said. Its made a huge difference.. 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. E te whnau o APEC, ka mihi a Aotearoa Niu Tireni ki a koutou katoa. Arderns suggestion was that he could provide sympathy and love for all Muslim communities. In the past weeks, New Zealand has reckoned with its own history. For example, if Ardern and her comrades take away your income and wealth and give it to me, but through either hard work, initiative, entrepreneurial spirit and luck you manage to have more income and wealth than I have in say a year from now, does that mean I get to have more of your income and wealth so we become equal again? The budget was so toxically unpopular that the National Party just barely clung on to a majority, thanks only to the distortions of New Zealands electoral system, and soon removed Richardson from her position, reversing some emphasis on some of her budgets provisions. Ardern became a list MP in 2008, a position she held for almost ten years until her election to the Mount Albert electorate in the . (So let us gather with love, in peace, for this family, so that they may truly live again, so that we all may truly live again.). 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. The first step would be recalling that it was more than just a merciless assault on welfare. his interview was due to go to press the day the news of the Christchurch attacks emerged. OPINION: It is important to understand political ideologies because they provide a lens into the underpinning beliefs and values that guide political goals and decision-making. Jacinda Ardern's speech at Christchurch memorial - full transcript New Zealand PM addressed a crowd of thousands who had gathered for a memorial service at Hagley Park two weeks after the. Ardern and her comrades think its best that everyone is equaland this is achieved through securing a redistribution of resources. What would she like to see other nations, other leaders, draw from New Zealands experiences? This is especially so outside New Zealand. And skyrocketing living costs, thanks especially to an out-of-control housing market, have made these numbers worth significantly less since WEAGs recommendations. I could hear her off to the side. Since releasing its budget substantially boosting welfare last week, leading figures in New Zealands Labour Party have been painting themselves as socialists overturning the countrys 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. In 2008, Ardern was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, visiting Jordan, Israel, Algeria and China. Theres something very grounding about that. An assault on the freedom of any one of us who practices their faith or religion, is not welcome here. We never have been. And there is little sign that, beyond emergency measures necessitated by the pandemic, the party is planning to permanently re-expand the size and scope of government. Let that be the legacy of the 15th of March. 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. It made similar cuts and restructuring to the university system, moving it further along in its transformation from a public good to a private service. They are the publisher. 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.. Half a lifetime and seven weeks ago, I watched Ardern as she sat on the porch of Te Whare Rnanga, the Maori meeting house at Waitangi. An inquiry was commissioned, tasked with asking, among other things, whether an emphasis on jihadi terrorism had meant New Zealand intelligence agencies were looking the wrong way. 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. You just have to. 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. 3. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. Download our Taking the Lead word search here! t Waitangi in early February, I had asked Ardern about the international attention she had attracted for being young, for being a new mother. Ardern is wearing a traditional Mori cloak and, even before she begins speaking, is given a standing ovation. Asked whether she, too, was a socialist, Ardern once president of the International Union of Socialist Youth professed that Ive always described myself as a democratic socialist but that I have never found those terms particularly useful in New Zealand because we do not tend to talk in those terms here., Here it is more common to say progressive, or member of the Labour Party, she explained. US Vogue dubbed her the anti-Trump. Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (/ d s n d r d r n / j-SIN-d ar-DURN; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023. Jacinda Ardern is one of New Zealand's young politicians, Sarah Hall sits down with her to find out just what her aspirations are. Simple words, whispered by the injured from their hospital beds. I have been asking Ardern about her immediate response to the attack, which from the outset put a clear emphasis on inclusivity and solidarity. By the way, I have used "comrade" because it is how union members referred to themselves throughout the 2009 meeting. Our challenge now is to make the very best of us, a daily reality. Earlier that decade, she lived for two and a half years in London, where she worked in Tony Blairs Cabinet Office. Earlier that decade, she lived for two and a half years in London, where . The elements of that surprised me, says Ardern today. But I am pragmatic about how much time that sometimes takes. The optimism tends to win out. Read the story being discussed on Jesse Mulligans show on Radio New Zealand on 17 May 2018. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. And I go for the latter. I suppose that is exactly what Ardern and her comrades mean because they further stated: Todays dominating economical system of Western capitalism has contributed to the unequal distribution of wealth worldwide.. I struggle not to smile, Ardern said through clenched teeth. It was half a lifetime ago, she guesses. The other is that shes actually pretty smart. Shes not just leading a country, gushed Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg last year. And then, within 15 minutes, I can be back in the hotel room having Neve spit pumpkin on my shoe. For example, the meeting documents state the aim of the union is to defend and spread our core socialist principles. As President, Jacinda got to travel the world even more with meetings in China, Lebanon and Jordan, to name a few. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure. The images were just as powerful. It is just 10 days since. The co-creators of Hero of the Sea interview each other about writing, illustrating and their latest collaboration. It just wasnt something she thought about, she said, hardly at all. I found this hard to believe. At age 28, she was its youngest member. Wouldnt it be good if the president of the United States showed greater moral leadership? These prosaic-seeming challenges will resurface. 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. Jacinda was more surprised than anyone when she was handed the leadership aft. Together with the right-wing parties attempt at parliamentary red-baiting, its the logical next step for New Zealands conservative MPs, who have tried to dent prime minister Jacinda Arderns stunning popularity with a series of unsuccessful and increasingly lame talking points cribbed from the US Republican Party, from fearmongering about a UN migration pact, to attacks on wokeness, to race-baiting. 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 stand here as a very proud member of the great socialist democratic Labour Party, proclaimed New Lynn MP Deborah Russell. 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. But even when we had no words, we still heard yours, and they have left us humbled and they have left us united. This deluge of political confessions began with a sadly typically embarrassing exchange in Parliament, which saw an MP from the right-wing National Party, David Bennett, accuse Labour MP Kieran McAnulty of being a communist. Upon being forced to withdraw and apologize for the unparliamentary remark, one of Bennetts fellow National Party MPs instead accused McAnulty of being a socialist., Yes, I am a socialist, and Im proud of it, McAnulty shot back, in a reply that quickly went viral. 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. Its just the way I feel about people that talk like machine guns. On the front are a series of notes, scrawled in Arderns rounded handwriting, growing more hurried and less legible as they cross the page. The alternative option is that we come out and say, for instance, on child poverty, that weve got these really minimalist targets. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don't matter! As IUSY we struggle for redistribution between the north and the south and for redistribution between the poor and the rich, because we believe in equality and justice., On the same trajectory, Ardern and her comrades said:Human beings are born with unequal resources available. And so I see that there was a weight of expectation there. The only thing Id say is that, as much as we inherited the Westminster system, we thankfully also have moved to an MMP [mixed-member proportional] system, she said. I wonder then what is the exact point whereby "inequality"becomes acceptable? Today, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable, she has the worlds ear. But she is verbally sharp. And you dont pick that sort of thing up because youre not a Marxist. Also of note, rumour also has it that Jacinda may be running as a candidate for the Labour Party. 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. And one of the first high-profile fights it picked with its newly gained political capital was with public-sector workers and the union that represents them, whom it tried to hit with a pay freeze. I was in a hotel room. Were deciding whether I can get away with jandal-wear for the latter part of the afternoon, she confided. People tend to know what that means.. E rau rangatira m, e ng reo, e ng mana. Terrible bone structure. If Id been [at home] in Auckland it would have been different, but I didnt have scarves with me. Her opponents sneered that it was all just stardust, but the party surged on a wave of Jacindamania. 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. 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