New Zealands top talkback host has been listening to the new leader of the Labour Party. Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern completed a Bachelor of Communication Studies in Public Relations and Political Science at Waikato Management School from 1999 to 2001. . It just wasnt something she thought about, she said, hardly at all. In 2007 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. The Guardians photographer asked Ardern to stand in the stripes, a film-noirish sort of pose. The Union's focus was human rights and equal opportunities for the world's children. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Outside, the flags are at half-mast. (The tides of remembrance flow over Christchurch today.). Armed police are everywhere. We would be fools to believe political decisions are primarily evidence based. This was my first press conference. They werent alone: the head of BusinessNZ similarly suggested the government couldve been more generous with its benefit increases. When the shooting began, he threw himself to the ground. Lets do this, went the slogan. In light of Labour's leadership crisis, we take a look back at. At school, her mother once revealed, she convened a happy club. He called his wife. I would like to just do my job and be judged on being the prime minister of New Zealand, said Ardern. Ardern and her comrades think its best that everyone is equaland this is achieved through securing a redistribution of resources. Get our print magazine for just $20 a year. On the contrary, gun crimes rose to a 10-year high after the law went into effect, according to Radio New Zealand. 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. 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. Not today. Answer (1 of 14): 1. Its the story of four people, all of whom attend the same wedding in New York, all of whom see one of the guests sit down and refuse to get back up, seemingly entering a catatonic What do NZ fans really think of Fran Littlewood's debut novel? 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. She would boot me a lot., Ardern began her speech that day by casting back a year, when she had asked all of you to hold all of us, and myself, to account. Here was a progressive upgrade on Canadas Justin Trudeau: an outward-looking young woman in a global lineup still dominated by greying men. 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. But we can strive to be true to the words embedded in our national anthem, .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}Men of every creed and race,Gather here before Thy face,Asking Thee to bless this placeGod defend our free land, From dissension, envy, hateAnd corruption, guard our stateMake our country good and greatGod defend New Zealand, Christchurch memorial: standing ovation for Ardern at New Zealand service, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Jacinda Ardern's full Christchurch speech: 'Let us be the nation we believe ourselves to be' video, Jacinda Ardern given standing ovation at New Zealand service. 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. 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. I was saying to someone the other day how long ago it feels since I was up north [at home]. I think, as leaders, sometimes were unaware of our reach and power, she says. It made cuts to ACC, New Zealands accident compensation program, while shifting its funding burden from employers to employees paychecks. Act of exraordnry violence. That was his instinct and it was the right one. Pressure was mounting over a failure to meet targets on a flagship house-building scheme. But New Zealand remains a laggard behind the rest of the globe, still firmly stuck in a decades-old ideological framework that never worked for most people, but that is especially horribly unsuited to meeting the civilizational crises of today. That may not always be the case, but for now were making it work., As for being pronounced a game changer for women, Ardern welcomed the idea she might inspire others, but was eager to present a truthful picture. Not quite. To the global community who have joined us today, who reached out to embrace New Zealand, and our Muslim community, to all of those who have gathered here today, we say thank you. 3. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. Oh, you know, sometimes you want things to be resolved a bit quicker, but I go in knowing I have to have those conversations. Sometimes I think we tend to think about our own actions in confined ways, and we underestimate the impact that we have. We hear you. 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. She calls herself a progressive. 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. She pointedly refused to speak the name of the man who did it. (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting. UPDATE 2: Chris sent us the uncropped original (click for larger view): Apologies to the Schnews that was actually a pretty good wee publication that came out of Brighton, England. By Dr Muriel Newman. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. A crescent moon hangs in the blue sky above. Nationalism, the new issue of Jacobin is out now. 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. The sun was beating down and Neve, in a blue bonnet and spotted dress, clucked away happily. The 50 names of the dead are read aloud, the only other sound the whirring of a police helicopter in the distance. A lot of pumpkin. His views are his own and do not represent Massey University. People tend to know what that means.. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. 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. E ng mana, e ng reo, e ng rangatira. We cannot confront these issues alone, none of us can. Now, the New Zealand Labour Party is getting in on the act, too. Toby Manhire is the editor of New Zealand online magazine the Spinoff. Speaking at a Maori ceremony at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. No friend of free speech, she had little regard for public opinion and no respect for those with a contrary view. 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. 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. And, lets be honest, in the lead up, too., Ardern sips from a mug of tea though she confesses that, years after quitting, shes also drinking coffee again. So I asked if she had something I could borrow, because for me it was just a mark of respect. He took our minister for ethnic communities with him, and made a powerful statement. 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. Not just the postman. 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. 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. Maybe with your sincerity, not your smile, suggested the photographer. Theres something very grounding about that. If anyone out there has a better photo let us know! Some of you may well know that, some years ago, I was the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. E te whnau o APEC, ka mihi a Aotearoa Niu Tireni ki a koutou katoa. I will forgive lavishly, because this heart doesnt want any more life to be lost, he tells the crowd. She was elected uncontested at IUSY's world congress held in the Dominican Republic yesterday. 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. She was raised a Mormon, but quit the church in her early 20s, principally because of its stance on homosexuality. He lives in Toronto, Canada. Bring it on. And you dont pick that sort of thing up because youre not a Marxist. Succinctly, steelily, the prime minister framed what had happened in her own terms. Ardern stares out the question for several seconds, grimacing. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. To understand the idealogical beliefs of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern we can look back to her time as president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, writes Steve Elers. E rau rangatira m, e ng reo, e ng mana. I think we were musing about this the risk of ambition. 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. What would it take to really reverse the Mother of all Budgets and its malignant legacy? The Herald reports:. 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. More than that, the countrys public debt is low, as are interest rates and, therefore, the costs of servicing it. The critical thing has been the inclusive approach. The revival of socialism in mainstream politics has been one of the bigger developments of the last five years. Just a few months later it was revealed that the prime minister was pregnant. The critical thing has been the inclusive approach. 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. The alternative option is that we come out and say, for instance, on child poverty, that weve got these really minimalist targets. Looking for your kid's next great read? In the wake of New Zealands worst terror attack, the prime minister talks frankly about the aftermath, global scrutiny and how a nation heals. I wonder if they get asked the same question. For example, is a 20 per centgap of "inequality"acceptable? So, what progressive answers to the financial crisis did Ardern and her comrades come up with? The information was patchy and it was very difficult to decipher exactly what had happened, she recalls. But the pandemic was really the defining moment for Ardern and revealed that she is not the compassionate democracy defender she wanted us to believe. (3) private property rights. If Id been [at home] in Auckland it would have been different, but I didnt have scarves with me. 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. 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. She was raised a Mormon, but quit the church in her early 20s, principally because of its stance on homosexuality. 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. The New Zealand "Socialists" Who Govern Like Neoliberals By Branko Marcetic Since releasing its budget substantially boosting welfare last week, leading figures in New Zealand's Labour Party have been painting themselves as socialists overturning the country's neoliberal order. Up on the ninth floor, the early morning sun scythes in through panoramic windows, the harbour just visible in the distance. So, no, I didnt really think about that, either., Later, it was suggested to her that it was an important symbol of solidarity with Muslim women in New Zealand, who felt unsafe. 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 . The second press conference I wrote on my phone on the way to Wellington.. 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. Whether or not I thought he would necessarily take on board what I said, is another question. Violence, and extremism in all its forms, is not welcome here. If so, this must be the most unusual socialist party in the world. It is just 10 days since a terrorist attack in Christchurch took the lives of 50 people at prayer. Wouldnt it be good if the president of the United States showed greater moral leadership? Jacinda Ardern, former Young Labour president and political advisor, was 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, in January 2008.. She is now the Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving since 26 October 2017.. Peace be upon you. 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. I just thought about sentiments, and what I thought needed to be conveyed., Ardern has been at pains to say that what happened on 15 March is not her story, but one that belongs to the victims and their families, to the injured, to Muslim communities, to Christchurch. 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. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three . ), Ardern says she has been taken aback by the volume of press coverage over the past weeks, the scrutiny of her every word. The exact number of years Jacinda Ardern was a member of the radical hard left group the International Union of Socialist Youth is unknown, but given she turned 20 in 2001, its likely to be around 10 years. Printed on the back is the running order for an event she hosted in Auckland the night before the attack. Later, Ardern was due to officially open a music festival, but at that moment she was on her way to visit the site of a new school. But for the time being they feel like the concerns of another time, another galaxy. They resolved against the flip-flops, and settled on flats. She was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 2008. . 2. As if becoming a mother and prime minister were not challenging enough, Ardern found herself hailed as a standard bearer for women everywhere. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered New Zealand's 2021 budget at Parliament on May 20, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. The system makes the sort of deadlocks witnessed in the Commons this year much less likely. A gunman - or gunmen, it was not . 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. We never have been. Her playlists include the Beatles and some of her favourite Kiwi bands like Street Chant and Opossom. 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. (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.). But personally, Id prefer a lineup of self-described liberals governing like socialists, rather than a group of proud socialists governing like neoliberals. Nau mai, haere mai ki tnei hui. 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. 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. I said what I needed to say, she says, pausing and taking a slow, diplomatic breath of air, her hands clasped around her knees. 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. Yes.. I just know we have a lot of work to do to make that universal.. 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. Ardern took that on, too, in her parliamentary speech on 19 March, four days after the attack. Twice a minute. Following the Christchurch attacks, Ardern was asked at a press conference if she agreed with Trumps downplaying of the rise of white supremacy. Its made a huge difference.. Following this mornings 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 important and foreboding warning, to the people of New Zealand. Subscribe today to get it in print! 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. Who had sought refuge, or sought a better life for themselves or their families. New Zealand PM addressed a crowd of thousands who had gathered for a memorial service at Hagley Park two weeks after the mosque attacks. Those values represent the very best of us. In 2008, Ardern was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, visiting Jordan, Israel, Algeria and China. 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? Two police officers stand by the glass doors, cradling semi-automatic weapons. 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. People have remarked upon the way weve responded, but to me there was no question. I am especially grateful to be hosted by FES. I look like Im pouting. It was shortly after 11am and the speeches, from local elders, from politicians, echoed back and forth across the lawn. I didnt mean it that way. 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