Progressives are leftists. So I think its implicit for him now, too.. What did it mean? The Iraq war. Let our Puffin Ambassadors tell you why you should pick up Coastwatcher, a thrilling adventure novel for 9+ readers. Up on the ninth floor, the early morning sun scythes in through panoramic windows, the harbour just visible in the distance. Violence, and extremism in all its forms, is not welcome here. 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. Bunches of flowers, handmade cards and soft toys line the footpath. We gather here, 14 days on from our darkest of hours. He lives in Toronto, Canada. The elements of that surprised me, says Ardern today. Succinctly, steelily, the prime minister framed what had happened in her own terms. They are us. We will remember the tears of our nation, and the new resolve we have formed. At age 28, she was its youngest member. In 2007 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Jacinda swapped her after school job at the local fish and chip shop to work for New Zealands Labour Party in the 1999 General Election. Thats all.. Richardsons budget radically overhauled housing policy, scrapping programs that supported homeownership, replacing income-based rents with market-based ones for state housing, and sold off the governments $2.4 billion worth of mortgages that had helped struggling families buy their first homes. Jacinda became the second woman ever elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, the world's largest international political youth . Jacinda only got into power because Winston Peter's liked to cause problems for the National party. Of course she needed to project New Zealands voice, but her focus was on domestic priorities. (The tides of remembrance flow over Christchurch today.). After graduating from a Bachelor of Communications at the University of Waikato, Jacinda took some time to travel overseas. Also of note, rumour also has it that Jacinda may be running as a candidate for the Labour Party. 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. 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. 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. 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. We cannot confront these issues alone, none of us can. 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. People have remarked upon the way weve responded, but to me there was no question. 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.. She resigned as prime minister in January 2023. Looking for your kid's next great read? People tend to know what that means.. Gun law reforms, intended to ban all semi-automatic firearms, were expedited, with cross-party support. After resources aka your income and wealth has been "redistributed"what happens when some people start accumulating more income and wealth than others? 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. Its intuitive. Its decision to stagger the boost means families in need will now be pointlessly deprived of much-needed funds until next year. It was time to torpedo the status quo, he said, and at 72, he opted to become deputy to a thirtysomething prime minister. 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. The second press conference I wrote on my phone on the way to Wellington.. But she is verbally sharp. 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. If anything, it shows how firmly New Zealand remains under the thrall of this thirty-year-old document. 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. She wooed the world with talk of kindness and compassion, while at home ruling like a dictator. Earlier in 2008 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. a terrorist attack in Christchurch took the lives of 50 people, over a failure to meet targets on a flagship house-building scheme, the party surged on a wave of Jacindamania, opted to become deputy to a thirtysomething prime minister, the second world leader to give birth in office, throwing his weight behind a Fox News broadcaster, said the murders did not come overnight, national remembrance service is held at Hagley Park in Christchurch. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces. Penguin Books New Zealand A Penguin Random House Company, 12 of the best non-fiction audiobooks narrated by authors, Everything you need to know before watching Lockwood & Co on Netflix, Feeling lost and overwhelmed this holiday season? I struggle not to smile, Ardern said through clenched teeth. 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. 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. 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. 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. The second of two daughters born to a Mormon family . And have people say, Wheres your ambition?, Under New Zealands proportional system in which people get two votes, one for their local politician and one for a party, as in Germany a single-party majority is near impossible. Two police officers stand by the glass doors, cradling semi-automatic weapons. Jacinda Ardern, in full Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern, (born July 26, 1980, Hamilton, New Zealand), New Zealand politician who in August 2017 became leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and then in October 2017, at age 37, became the country's youngest prime minister in more than 150 years. Its been folded in half, and in half again, and again. You just do what feels right.. ), (My greetings to the whole of Ngi Tahu.). I pointed this out when we met again in Auckland, and Ardern leaned back with a sigh, knowing where this was going. She doesnt need to, she suggests. She was being a little bit vocal, Ardern said when we met later that day, at the hotel down the road. Peace be upon you. This is especially so outside New Zealand. But she is done with that kind of question. She worked only very indirectly for Blair, she said. Christchurch was under attack. What words express the grief of a city that has already known so much pain? But, otherwise, I dont tend to draw parallels. She paused. And I go for the latter. We may have left flowers, performed the haka, sung songs or simply embraced. 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. It made cuts to ACC, New Zealands accident compensation program, while shifting its funding burden from employers to employees paychecks. He called his wife. There is very little time to sit and think in those terms. Did they propose ideas that would stimulate the economy so businesses could thrive thereby creating job opportunities? Little wonder CPAG and other experts and anti-poverty campaigners have been bitterly underwhelmed by the governments announcement. 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. And so to each of us as we go from here, we have work to do, but do not leave the job of combatting hate to the government alone. The other is that shes actually pretty smart. Get our print magazine for just $20 a year. Oh, you know, sometimes you want things to be resolved a bit quicker, but I go in knowing I have to have those conversations. 2. 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. And we remember, that ours is a home that does not and cannot claim perfection. But a closer look at the details shows how Labour plays a central role in that neoliberal order. We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness, she says. We are not immune to the viruses of hate, of fear, of other. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. There was a real sense of hope at the time Blair was elected, she continued, because people were ready for things to be done differently. 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. While the 1972 Royal Commission on Social Security defined the aim of welfare as giving those with disadvantages a standard of living much like that of the rest of the community, by the 1990s, the system came to be viewed as simply a safety net, and one that Kiwis had to be discouraged from using as much as possible. I think its just the nature of an event like this. 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. So I actually think that, in New Zealand, we do things our own way.. We hear you. The information was patchy and it was very difficult to decipher exactly what had happened, she recalls. For a school project, Jacinda interviewed former Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring and was very impressed by how friendly and helpful Ms Waring was. It was shortly after 11am and the speeches, from local elders, from politicians, echoed back and forth across the lawn. 4. Do you liken yourself to Jacinda Ardern? And my bet is that no one would. Will she be speaking to him about his xenophobic rhetoric? It turned out the strict gun law Ardern championed failed to curb gun crimes. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. (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.). Shes changing the game. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. And how often should the reset occur? I was in a hotel room. 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. These are my notes for the first press conference, she explains. 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. Shes not putting on an act. Does that mean that the clock needs to be reset so everyone is equal again? At school, her mother once revealed, she convened a happy club. He took our minister for ethnic communities with him, and made a powerful statement. She said this morning it doesnt mean anything, its just Im sorry, it does. It is just 10 days since a terrorist attack in Christchurch took the lives of 50 people at prayer. She wooed the world with talk of kindness and compassion, while at home ruling like a dictator. She doesnt run out of words. It is actually a Marxist term. She is very vocal. But I said what I needed to say., I try again. He has forgiven the man who did it. New Zealands top talkback host has been listening to the new leader of the Labour Party. The case that Labours budget last week avenges these misdeeds is based on its $3.3 billion boost to welfare, set to incrementally rise over the next year, first in July, then in April 2022. 3. We didnt even know a confirmed toll. So, what progressive answers to the financial crisis did Ardern and her comrades come up with? (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. Among the speakers this morning is 13-year-old Salma, who stands at the microphone and says, simply, of her father, Ashraf, who was killed: He was a really nice man. Farid Ahmeds wife, Husna, was killed at Al Noor Mosque, too. Official records of that meeting give us insights into Arderns political ideology. Comrades means something. Theres so many of us great socialists on this side of the House, said Christchurch Central MP Duncan Webb. If you dont pause occasionally then youre talking nonsense, you dont know what youre saying. She was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 2008. . 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. We never have been. Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. She is sharp mentally. They resolved against the flip-flops, and settled on flats. I wonder if they get asked the same question. Incoming prime minister Jacinda Ardern says capitalism has been a "blatant failure" in New Zealand when measured by child poverty.. Ardern is the former head of the International Union of Socialist Youth so it is no surprise that our new Prime Minister thinks capitalism is a blatant failure. The answer lies in our humanity. As if becoming a mother and prime minister were not challenging enough, Ardern found herself hailed as a standard bearer for women everywhere. Sidebar: Ive never trusted people who talk too fast. She pointedly refused to speak the name of the man who did it. But, no, I didnt think about particular words. 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. The system makes the sort of deadlocks witnessed in the Commons this year much less likely. I wonder then what is the exact point whereby "inequality"becomes acceptable? Were deciding whether I can get away with jandal-wear for the latter part of the afternoon, she confided. Soon he was joined by several others. The piece that Larry [Williams] referred to this morning, Ive watched a couple of times, showed it to some other people over the weekend and they were aghast. E rau rangatira m, e ng reo, e ng mana. 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