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Bad punchline to inappropriate joke: why this man as NZ envoy?
Trevor Mallard is a scrapper with a record of bad behaviour. So why has he been appointed to be NZ ambassador to Ireland?
Ardern’s lesson in laws of political gravity
She was seen as unassailable after the 2020 poll, now it is Jacinda Ardern who is on the nose. The good times roll and then quickly roll away.
Albanese hoses down talk of Beijing visit
The PM says he is not rushing to follow Jacinda Ardern to China despite renewed relations, as he clarifies his awkward remarks on Taiwan.
Guy shows reform hand as Andrews attacks extremists
With Victoria’s campaign in its last week, Opposition Leader Matthew Guy outlines first reforms, Labor Premier Daniel Andrews complains Liberal preferences favour some extremists, and an independent MP calls the Premier a ‘red mist’ target.
Ardern’s hopes risk being killed by kindness
New Zealand Labour’s support is at its lowest since Jacinda Ardern became leader, and there’s a real prospect her government will be rejected.
Asia’s bamboo diplomacy lessons for Ardern
NZ’s greatest foreign policy challenge is threading the geopolitical needle – keeping both China, its biggest trading partner by far, and the West on side. Jacinda Ardern can learn from her neighbours.
Kiwi downturn hits Ardern hard
Support for New Zealand’s ruling Labour Party has fallen to its lowest level since Jacinda Ardern became leader in 2017, a poll shows.
Ardern’s ‘National-lite’ can’t match the real deal
As Labour polls at it lowest level since 2017, disappointed Kiwis say Ardern has failed to deliver real change. It’s not a winning electoral formula.
‘I’m back’: Winston Peters returns as NZ’s ‘white knight’
Written off in 2020, the maverick NZ First leader is rising in the polls and being talked of as kingmaker in the 2023 election. This isn’t good news for Jacinda Ardern.
Madness: methane emissions tax will rip heart out of NZ farmers
Jacinda Ardern plans to tax the agricultural sector so heavily that by 2030 an estimated 20 per cent of sheep and beef farmers and five per cent of dairy farmers will be forced out of business.
Climate change vs exports: why Ardern should head to Egypt
COP27 decisions will have a direct impact on liveability in the Middle East and will affect NZ’s surging exports to the region. There is much at stake.
‘Dutton will lead us from Labor’s dark tunnel’
Readers have their say on the Opposition Leader’s line in the sand, Jacinda Ardern’s five-year plan and Prince Harry’s tell-all tome.
New Zealand is now worse off than ever
Jacinda Ardern has changed the nature of the New Zealand state and its relationship to citizens, but hasn’t improved its most pressing economic and social problems.
PM’s ‘no carbon tax under a government I lead’ moment
Readers have their say on Anthony Albanese’s tax cuts conundrum, Jacinda Ardern’s woke war on free speech, and the sober confessions of Ross Fitzgerald.
Last Post: Jacinda Ardern, Brendan O’Neill and the weird woke mob
We shouldn’t be at all surprised that the NZ PM has unleashed her inner tyrant and is now saying the quiet part out loud.
Woke queen Ardern wages war on free speech
Authoritarianism is well dressed now. It’s polite and speaks in a soft voice. It is delivered not via a soldier’s boot to the cranium but with a caring liberal head-tilt.
Militant left has marched us all the way to dystopia
Jacinda Ardern proposes to lead the world’s response to misinformation on the internet, but even she sounded nervous about where this might all lead.
You could fix so much in NZ. Why choose this?
With almost every aspect of NZ life in crisis, there are endless opportunities to leave a legacy. But Jacinda Ardern has picked the one area of the economy that doesn’t require reform.
Love affair between NZ business and Ardern is well and truly over
In the first few years of Jacinda Ardern’s government, business leaders were very positive. But their view of her has now plummeted.
Blurring boundaries: Ardern’s threat to journalism’s ethics
To access Wellington’s journalism fund, media must sign up to a list of political causes; companies that take the money can be accused of being bought to promote the government’s agenda.
‘Abject failure’: Ardern’s key election plank set to implode
Jacinda Ardern vowed to end homelessness and lift children out of poverty. Instead she’s spent $1.2bn on motels and emergency housing where families are exposed to crime and sexual assault.
Ardern spends $1bn a year on PR but on real issues? Not so much
Jacinda Ardern promised action on poverty, inequality, climate change and much more. Instead of delivering, she’s spending nearly $1bn on PR consultants.
Ambitious women can be leaders, but must be accountable
The unlikely trinity of Sanna Marin, Jacinda Ardern and Meghan Markle have to learn that with power comes great responsibility.
Biggest mistake wasn’t extra portfolios — it was this
Scott Morrison finds himself in the eye of a storm. But handing over control of the Covid agenda to bureaucrats who copied Jacinda Ardern’s ‘truth’ doctrine was far worse.
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Behind Ardern’s return to softly-softly on China
Jacinda Ardern’s declaration today that she hoped soon to lead a business delegation to China is a signal she’s recalibrating New Zealand’s foreign relations eastward.
Why NZ’s all-black mood bodes ill for Ardern
Frustration and anger at a flailing All Black side is emblematic of NZ’s crisis of confidence in its government and could prove disastrous for Jacinda Ardern at the 2023 poll.
Surprised she snubbed Aussie journos? Don’t be
The NZ PM is ill-equipped temperamentally to deal with ‘hostile questioning’; and the bar for what she perceives as hostile is low.
Ferguson ‘fearless, forensic’, only when it suits
It was a tale of two contrasting interviews when the ABC 7.30 host quizzed Richard Marles and Jacinda Ardern.
If Ardern’s speech on China was genuine, we’re in trouble
NZ should be a solid partner in the Western alliance against Russia-China. Instead, it is vacillating in a most disturbing manner.
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