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. Who had sought refuge, or sought a better life for themselves or their families. And she speaks very quickly. The system makes the sort of deadlocks witnessed in the Commons this year much less likely. In the interests of democracy, we have transcribed his words below. Outside, the flags are at half-mast. 3. But does this make the Labour Party socialist? I was born one and politics has not beaten it out of me yet. A week ago, I asked her if the Christchurch attack had affected this optimism. Talking to mourners after the national remembrance service in Christchurch. Her playlists include the Beatles and some of her favourite Kiwi bands like Street Chant and Opossom. US Vogue dubbed her the anti-Trump. Get our print magazine for just $20 a year. But personally, Id prefer a lineup of self-described liberals governing like socialists, rather than a group of proud socialists governing like neoliberals. Racism exists, but it is not welcome here. Im a socialist! piped up Tukituki MP Anna Lorck at one point. I look forward to hearing about the success of socialism in curing child poverty. Oh, you know, sometimes you want things to be resolved a bit quicker, but I go in knowing I have to have those conversations. 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. I think its just the nature of an event like this. Jacinda Ardern, former Young Labour president and political advisor, has just been 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. 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. Just a few months later it was revealed that the prime minister was pregnant. Succinctly, steelily, the prime minister framed what had happened in her own terms. Earlier in 2008 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Speaking at a Maori ceremony at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. If you could see the amount of reading that is required in that role. They were simple words, repeated by community leaders who witnessed the loss of their friends and loved ones. Oh, I get it now. She worked only very indirectly for Blair, she said. I think people dont want us to be perfect, she said. If you dont pause occasionally then youre talking nonsense, you dont know what youre saying. That position allowed her to travel to such places as China, Algeria, India, and Lebanon. The 2009 union meeting is relevant not just because Ardern was president, but because the official resolutions outlined progressive answers to the financial crisis aka the global financial crisis or GFC. More than that, the countrys public debt is low, as are interest rates and, therefore, the costs of servicing it. 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. 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. After visiting the USA, Jacinda travelled to England where she worked for British Prime Minister Tony Blair before being chosen as the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. 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. 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. Ardern returned to New Zealand and entered the House of Representatives in 2008. The Guardians photographer asked Ardern to stand in the stripes, a film-noirish sort of pose. Soon he was joined by several others. 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. These are my notes for the first press conference, she explains. JACINDA ARDERN . Terrible bone structure. I just know we have a lot of work to do to make that universal.. 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. 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. But she is done with that kind of question. Maybe with your sincerity, not your smile, suggested the photographer. Learn more about Jacinda in Taking the Lead: How Jacinda Ardern Wowed the World, out now in your local bookstore. Aged 27, and hailing from Morrinsville, Ms Ardern is just the second female IUSY president in 101 years. 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. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had an impressive career since she was elected as leader in 2017 and was recently named #2 in Fortunes list of Worlds Greatest Leaders in 2019. 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. Later the same year she returned to New Zealand to campaign full-time during the 2008 election and became New Zealand's youngest MP. Didnt that make her angry, I ask Ardern when we meet in Wellington. After completing a communications degree, she worked for a short stint in the Beehive of the last Labour prime minister, Helen Clark, who recalls noticing Arderns promise when she was on a team drafting answers for parliamentary questions. Understandably the global media paint the. 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. This interview was due to go to press the day the news of the Christchurch attacks emerged. 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? A gunman - or gunmen, it was not . Following the attacks, she points out, it was Peters who decided to travel to Turkey for a meeting of the international Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, where he met Recep Tayyip Erdoan; the Turkish president had been screening images from the terrorists video at rallies, and declaring that visitors from Australia and New Zealand who expressed anti-Islamic sentiments would be returned in coffins. I never met him while I worked for him. In the hours after the attack, in which an Australian-born white-supremacist shot dead 50 unarmed people in two mosques, Ardern said that this was an act of terrorism. I found this hard to believe. In other words, Richardson and her allies aimed not just to tinker with select programs but to transform hearts, minds, and what was politically acceptable. And then I came here and was met with this simple greeting. Are You Happy Now manages to be both extremely zeitgeisty but also timeless. He is an extremist, she told parliament four days later. 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. Earlier that decade, she lived for two and a half years in London, where . Its just the way I feel about people that talk like machine guns. Theres something very grounding about that. This is at the Youth Socialist conference, she was the president in 2009, and she used the word comrade 15 times in eight minutes. She was raised a Mormon, but quit the church in her early 20s, principally because of its stance on homosexuality. 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. After resources aka your income and wealth has been "redistributed"what happens when some people start accumulating more income and wealth than others? If anyone out there has a better photo let us know! Win big with the brand-new novel from the International No 1 Bestselling phenomenon and author ofMe Before YouandThe Giver of Stars. In the shoe.. 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. Last week I went half a day with my shirt inside out., For Ardern, Neve helps keep things in perspective. She crosses the office to her desk and pulls an A4 sheet of paper from a drawer. Whether or not I thought he would necessarily take on board what I said, is another question. 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. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. Jacinda Ardern is transforming New Zealand into a socialist state. Haere atu r. As President, Jacinda got to travel the world even more with meetings in China, Lebanon and Jordan, to name a few. 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. You just do what feels right.. Team play is more important than ever in politics. It was time to torpedo the status quo, he said, and at 72, he opted to become deputy to a thirtysomething prime minister. 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. 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. My belief in the humanity of New Zealanders has strengthened. 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. E te whnau o APEC, ka mihi a Aotearoa Niu Tireni ki a koutou katoa. Ardern was named Labour's spokesperson for youth . Does that mean that the clock needs to be reset so everyone is equal again? (The tides of remembrance flow over Christchurch today.). If you value what we do and believe in the importance of independent and freely accessible journalism tautoko mai,donate today. Accordingly, to understand Arderns political ideology it is important to revisit 2008, when she entered Parliament as a Labour list-MP. 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. 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. (I acknowledge amongst us today our distinguished leaders, speakers and those who bear authority. 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. Comrades this, comrades that. My belief in the humanity of New Zealanders has strengthened. Answer (1 of 14): 1. Jacinda loved living on the orchard in Murupara and learned to drive a tractor before she could drive a car! Well, considering no night last week finished before midnight and some mornings started before five for her, I can understand, he replies. Contact for complaints and communications under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, Constructive Criticism and Team Work In Politics. Locals started leaving tributes here on 15 March; today they form a river, filling the pavement for 250 metres. Once every 30 seconds. Jacinda governs by dictate. 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. 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. 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. For example, the meeting documents state the aim of the union is to defend and spread our core socialist principles. [Applause] Thank you very much. I was saying to someone the other day how long ago it feels since I was up north [at home]. Jacinda Ardern is one of New Zealand's young politicians, Sarah Hall sits down with her to find out just what her aspirations are. What words capture the anguish of our Muslim community being the target of hatred and violence? It does feel as if the passage of time has extended. When I ask her which day last week a particular foreign dignitary spoke to her, she says, Times a bit of a blur for me, with a sardonic laugh. And then, within 15 minutes, I can be back in the hotel room having Neve spit pumpkin on my shoe. She keeps talking and she talks fast. (I spoke to Clark a few days after the Christchurch attack, and she told me Arderns response had resonated because it was authentic. Act of exraordnry violence. And how often should the reset occur? 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. Bunches of flowers, handmade cards and soft toys line the footpath. The Iraq war. The images were just as powerful. But for the time being they feel like the concerns of another time, another galaxy. 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. The level of detail that she has to absorb, and is able to retain, blows my mind. 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. I will forgive lavishly, because this heart doesnt want any more life to be lost, he tells the crowd. Read this book, former Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring. I think, as leaders, sometimes were unaware of our reach and power, she says. It's intuitive, ll show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. I hadnt thought about it in those terms. In 2007 Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. 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. Sometimes, what youre promoting are things like wellbeing, these ambitious but intangible things. She doesnt want to lower the bar, to be someone who only has regard to political measures of success and says, Well, Im only going to set these ambitions, and talk in this way, because I dont want to be judged harshly for not having achieved them., When Ardern was made leader of the Labour party in 2017, she and Gayford were struggling to start a family. Gun law reforms, intended to ban all semi-automatic firearms, were expedited, with cross-party support. Jacinda worked at a soup kitchen in New York. That was his instinct and it was the right one. For a school project, Jacinda interviewed former Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring and was very impressed by how friendly and helpful Ms Waring was. She was elected uncontested at IUSY's world congress held in the Dominican Republic yesterday. She is very vocal. 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.. Ki ng mate o te ao. If there are words that proved defining, they were those spoken by 71-year-old Haji-Daoud Nabi, who moments before being shot dead addressed the gunman from the door of Al Noor mosque, saying: Hello, brother.. Jacinda only got into power because Winston Peter's liked to cause problems for the National party. I occasionally go to events which may have quite a bit of profile and pressure around them. Even in utero, Neve had made her presence known. At age 28, she was its youngest member. We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness, she says. Tn koutou katoa. In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, a role that took her around the world. Limited though this announcement is, not even Helen Clarks Labour government in the 2000s dared to try and wholly undo Richardsons welfare cuts, a sign that things really are slowly shifting. I just know we have a lot of work to do to make that universal.. In the past her invocations of kindness might have been dismissed as slogans. The Herald reports:. Let that be the legacy of the 15th of March. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. What would it take to really reverse the Mother of all Budgets and its malignant legacy? Yes.. In 2008, Ardern was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, visiting Jordan, Israel, Algeria and China. I thought there were none. The sun was beating down and Neve, in a blue bonnet and spotted dress, clucked away happily. 17 April 2021 9:00 AM There she goes, New Zealand's Wonder Woman, striking a model's pose on the cover of yet another women's magazine, Thrive, dedicated to the wellness mantras Ardern herself spouts. But even when we had no words, we still heard yours, and they have left us humbled and they have left us united. Or does it need to be closer, like 10 per cent? 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 . In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, a role that took her around the world. I absolutely knew what I wanted to say. Many predicted that wave would crash on a grumpy rock in the shape of Winston Peters, whose nationalist NZ First (think a hosed-down version of Ukip) held the balance of power after the election. Do you liken yourself to Jacinda Ardern? And my bet is that no one would. All this wasnt about the nuts and bolts of practical policy. And we remember, that ours is a home that does not and cannot claim perfection. We have consensus really built into our system. Because we are not immune to the viruses of hate, of fear, of other. Were deciding whether I can get away with jandal-wear for the latter part of the afternoon, she confided. 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. In light of Labour's leadership crisis, we take a look back at. 1:30 PM 'I don't have enough in the tank,' complained 42-year-old Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 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. she was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. And my response to that? The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces. Printed on the back is the running order for an event she hosted in Auckland the night before the attack. 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. Let our Puffin Ambassadors tell you why you should pick up Coastwatcher, a thrilling adventure novel for 9+ readers. To be the nation we believe ourselves to be. When I had the all-clear to go down on Saturday, I asked a friend if they had something for me to borrow. CPAG estimates that families on welfare would need an extra $100$230 a week to stay above poverty, and that the Treasurys own forecasts only see child poverty dropping a mere 1.4 points to 17 percent by 2023, leaving at least 180,000 kids in poverty. 2. Ardern agrees. Jacinda is apparently known not just for her considerable intellect and political nous but also her hair - evidently Scoop thought so too, deeming it worthy of inclusion in this photo of recently confirmed Labour Rimutaka candidate, Chris Hipkins. 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. That doesnt necessarily apply to her. A handful of words have been highlighted in bright orange. They will remain with us forever. The worlds are in very close proximity. Her opponents sneered that it was all just stardust, but the party surged on a wave of Jacindamania. It just wasnt something she thought about, she said, hardly at all. Use the key to unlock the secret message! Today, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable, she has the worlds ear. Its made a huge difference.. Shes changing the game. The alternative option is that we come out and say, for instance, on child poverty, that weve got these really minimalist targets. 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. 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. A responsibility to be the place that we wish to be. By Dr Muriel Newman. To see people from across society, people who maybe have never even known anyone who goes to a mosque, come out with the flowers and the donations and say: this is not the New Zealand we know and love.). She is very verbal. The whole thing has already prompted a predictable counterresponse from the New Zealand right, replete with hammer and sickle and Soviet-style lettering. At the UN in New York last September, Ardern made the case for action on climate change, and for kindness and empathy in politics a message amplified by the fact her partner and baby daughter were sitting next to her. Twice a minute. They were stories of bravery. 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. 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. The result was what youd expect: poverty and hunger persistently rose while wealth inequality dramatically widened, with Richardsons beloved government surpluses built predominantly on the back of often poor families. 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. And while Labours manifesto remained essentially unchanged, people suddenly started to listen. We didnt even know a confirmed toll. The word progressive is a dirty word, to be blunt, in my philosophy. Shes not putting on an act. Sometimes, what youre promoting isnt tangible. Progressives are leftists. The other is that shes actually pretty smart. Labours guarded but seemingly genuine attempt to try on the socialist label could be a positive step if it helps further demystify the word, particularly in a country still stumbling around in the hungover haze of a decades-old neoliberal binge. It is just 10 days since. Thats all.. But she says she enjoys this part of the job: I dont get exasperated or frustrated by it. Really? Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 17 April 2018, Berlin Kia ora and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. 4. 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. Theres so many of us great socialists on this side of the House, said Christchurch Central MP Duncan Webb. 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. Humanity. We only had a short amount of time to prepare.. Its nice that Labours not afraid of the word socialist anymore. 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. Today, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable, she has the worlds ear. She was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 2008. . The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three . She is sharp. In the past weeks, New Zealand has reckoned with its own history. 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. Jacinda Ardern, former Young Labour president and political advisor, has just been 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. She may have been referring to Ardern speaking at the International Union of Socialist Youth's World Council annual meeting in 2009, where she used the term "comrade" several times - a term used . The first step would be recalling that it was more than just a merciless assault on welfare. Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. (Later in the day I contact Gayford, host of a television fishing show and father of the couples nine-month-old daughter, Neve, asking for his official position on the prime minister having returned to coffee. I havent read it in full, but I saw enough of it to know part of what his aspirations were., Among the hideous novelties of the Christchurch attack is the fact that it was livestreamed, in bloody, dystopian detail, on Facebook, before metastasising across the internet, on sites where white supremacy festers, as well as on giant online platforms. A crescent moon hangs in the blue sky above. It just wasnt something she thought about, she said, hardly at all. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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