Oh, you know, sometimes you want things to be resolved a bit quicker, but I go in knowing I have to have those conversations. The Unions focus was human rights and equal opportunities for the worlds children. 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. Jacinda worked at a soup kitchen in New York. They werent alone: the head of BusinessNZ similarly suggested the government couldve been more generous with its benefit increases. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. I found this hard to believe. Shes changing the game. After resources aka your income and wealth has been "redistributed"what happens when some people start accumulating more income and wealth than others? But rather than just throw people off welfare, Richardson replaced the very ideas that underpinned it. A fight was brewing over the possible introduction of a capital gains tax. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don't matter! How finding your ikigai can give you a new perspective on stress. 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. 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. It made cuts to ACC, New Zealands accident compensation program, while shifting its funding burden from employers to employees paychecks. 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. 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. 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. Jeremy Corbyns leadership led to a surge in left-wing membership in the UK Labour Party and ongoing [], A journal of theory and strategy published by Jacobin, The New Zealand Socialists Who Govern Like Neoliberals, Taking Back Left Parties From the Brahmins, Jacinda Ardern Wont Save New Zealands Working Class, Jacinda-Mania Isnt Enough for New Zealands Workers, Mori, or the Environment, New Zealands Coronavirus Response Isnt as Great as It Seems. 3. Last week I went half a day with my shirt inside out., For Ardern, Neve helps keep things in perspective. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. I can do what I do because I have help and I try to talk about that a lot., What about the anti-Trump label, I asked her. I said what I needed to say, she says, pausing and taking a slow, diplomatic breath of air, her hands clasped around her knees. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since 2017.. Born in Hamilton, Ardern grew up in Morrinsville . 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. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Jacinda Ardern. 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. A lot of pumpkin. 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. She crosses the office to her desk and pulls an A4 sheet of paper from a drawer. That was his instinct and it was the right one. But, otherwise, I dont tend to draw parallels. She paused. I hadnt thought about it in those terms. I just know we have a lot of work to do to make that universal.. It felt very deliberate: was it? But what I do know is Ardern and her comrades provided the above answers in 2009and now she is leading us into the economic recovery of post-Covid-19. We gather here, 14 days on from our darkest of hours. (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. 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. Or does it need to be closer, like 10 per cent? Jacinda is more communist than she would like people to believe. I struggle not to smile, Ardern said through clenched teeth. She was raised a Mormon, but quit the church in her early 20s, principally because of its stance on homosexuality. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. 'For me, it's time,' she added, during her surprise resignation speech this morning. Labour had, after all, just come off a stunning landslide election win that gave it a single-handed outright majority, a first since the countrys 1996 electoral reforms. It was a tough choice between being a clown (because they have so much fun) or a scientist (like her big sister Louise), but when she realised her passion for helping others, Jacinda chose politics. Hansard (Debates) Also in this . She doesnt need to, she suggests. Outside, the flags are at half-mast. She had, though, seen the shooters manifesto, the 74-page screed he posted online. 3. In the days that have followed the terrorist attack on the 15th of March, we have often found ourselves without words. You think of Tony Blairs period, now, and what do people talk about? But does this make the Labour Party socialist? Jacinda Ardern is transforming New Zealand into a socialist state. In early 2009, just two months after becoming an MP, Ardern presided over the union's World Council annual meeting in her capacity as president. The co-creators of Hero of the Sea interview each other about writing, illustrating and their latest collaboration. 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. Comrades this, comrades that. Up on the ninth floor, the early morning sun scythes in through panoramic windows, the harbour just visible in the distance. Comforting a mourner at Kilbirnie mosque in Wellington. We are not immune to the viruses of hate, of fear, of other. 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. 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. What words express the grief of a city that has already known so much pain? 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. Learn about the Netflix adaptation of Lockwood & Co, who the key cast members are, and when the show drops in Australia. Ardern stares out the question for several seconds, grimacing. We only had a short amount of time to prepare.. That, very quickly, was clear to me, when I heard that a mosque had been targeted. You just do what feels right.. As President, Jacinda got to travel the world even more with meetings in China, Lebanon and Jordan, to name a few. We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness, she says. It just wasnt something she thought about, she said, hardly at all. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. 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? The second press conference I wrote on my phone on the way to Wellington.. 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. he prime minister was deep in conversation with her press secretary when she arrived for the formal part of our interview at Waitangi in February. It was time to torpedo the status quo, he said, and at 72, he opted to become deputy to a thirtysomething prime minister. Lets do this, went the slogan. 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. In 2008, Ardern was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, visiting Jordan, Israel, Algeria and China. Fifteen times. She is very vocal. Did they propose ideas that would stimulate the economy so businesses could thrive thereby creating job opportunities? The answer lies in our humanity. Leighton Smith has been dispatching stone cold common sense to ZB listeners between breakfast and noon for three decades. Its nice that Labours not afraid of the word socialist anymore. Jacinda started her political career in high school. I pointed this out when we met again in Auckland, and Ardern leaned back with a sigh, knowing where this was going. It continues to severely underinvest in areas like health care, infrastructure, and climate change out of debt concerns that put it out of step with even the worlds right-wing politicians and economists. 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. Oh, I get it now. Here was a progressive upgrade on Canadas Justin Trudeau: an outward-looking young woman in a global lineup still dominated by greying men. I was saying to someone the other day how long ago it feels since I was up north [at home]. 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. Its been folded in half, and in half again, and again. You need to remove some of the politics sometimes and just think about humanity. 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 pointedly refused to speak the name of the man who did it. Comrades means something. My belief in the humanity of New Zealanders has strengthened. Were trying to do it ourselves and with our family, said Ardern. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. I've had the pleasure of meeting her socially on a couple of occasions and I imagine she'd be a huge asset. Jacinda loved living on the orchard in Murupara and learned to drive a tractor before she could drive a car! 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. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. The Spinoffs political coverage is powered by the generous support of our members. 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. This was my first press conference. Ardern and her comrades think its best that everyone is equaland this is achieved through securing a redistribution of resources. 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. So, what progressive answers to the financial crisis did Ardern and her comrades come up with? Observers waited to see how Labour would spend the oodles of political capital it had gathered off the back of one of the worlds best pandemic responses. It's intuitive, ll show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. 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. Arderns Labour-led coalition government was under constant scrutiny: could she achieve the transformational reform shed promised, when every change in the law meant scratching the backs of her coalition partners? He is an extremist, she told parliament four days later. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. For me, its implicit now, she says. What words capture the anguish of our Muslim community being the target of hatred and violence? No, she said, bluntly. After graduating from a Bachelor of Communications at the University of Waikato, Jacinda took some time to travel overseas. You just have to. What words adequately express the pain and suffering of 50 men, women and children lost, and so many injured? 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. Can I give you an observation? That 1991 document had aimed to complete the neoliberal revolution started by Labour itself in the mid-1980s. The government very cannily framed its budget as a reversal of 1991s Mother of all Budgets, one that would right the wrongs put in place by its author, the National Partys thenfinance minister Ruth Richardson, who designed maybe the most extreme case of welfare state retrenchment in the Western world. They will remain with us forever. Yes.. The second of two daughters born to a Mormon family . The occasion for this supposed reverse metamorphosis was the highly anticipated budget day, with suggestions that, after three years of treading water, the government was gearing up to announce something major. It focused on her pledge to make 2019 a year of delivery, and some signs that the halo of the Jacindamania that brought her to office had begun to dim. The word progressive is a dirty word, to be blunt, in my philosophy. The fact is that she is talking the second the question is finished, if not before. I never met him while I worked for him. But I said what I needed to say., I try again. We have consensus really built into our system. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. And the tragedy is that most people are completely unaware that it is happening. These prosaic-seeming challenges will resurface. Just a few months later it was revealed that the prime minister was pregnant. Pressure was mounting over a failure to meet targets on a flagship house-building scheme. I think we were musing about this the risk of ambition. And over the last two weeks we have shown that, you have shown that, in your actions. 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