I will always strive for better. I found this hard to believe. 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. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure. 2. On Saturday 16 March, after another press conference in Wellington, Ardern flew south to Christchurch, where she met members of the Muslim community. Looking for your kid's next great read? Shes not putting on an act. New Zealand's third female PM, and at 37 our youngest leader since Edward Stafford in 1856, Jacinda Ardern had the most meteoric rise to power of any New Zealand PM - three months prior to being sworn in, . To be the nation we believe ourselves to be. 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 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. 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. Its just the way I feel about people that talk like machine guns. Haere atu r. 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. Or do we all need to have the exact same amount of income and wealth? 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. The Spinoffs political coverage is powered by the generous support of our members. For example, the meeting documents state the aim of the union is to defend and spread our core socialist principles. We know we need to act, she had told them. We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness. The couples mothers are the main backup unit, especially when Gayford is away shooting Fish Of The Day, his fishing-travel-cooking hybrid show for the National Geographic channel. 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. She is sharp. But, no, I didnt think about particular words. I have been asking Ardern about her immediate response to the attack, which from the outset put a clear emphasis on inclusivity and solidarity. I think its just the nature of an event like this. Simple words, whispered by the injured from their hospital beds. I am here today to bring with me the grief of all New Zealand, she said. But rather than just throw people off welfare, Richardson replaced the very ideas that underpinned it. What words capture the anguish of our Muslim community being the target of hatred and violence? No, she said. A fortnight after the attack, a national remembrance service is held at Hagley Park in Christchurch, not far from Al Noor Mosque. Its policy decisions, particularly around the housing market, have further concentrated wealth at the top while raising housing costs for ordinary Kiwis, in response to which it refuses to implement rent control. Read the story being discussed on Jesse Mulligans show on Radio New Zealand on 17 May 2018. So, what progressive answers to the financial crisis did Ardern and her comrades come up with? The system makes the sort of deadlocks witnessed in the Commons this year much less likely. Leighton Smith has been dispatching stone cold common sense to ZB listeners between breakfast and noon for three decades. She was elected uncontested at IUSY's world congress held in the Dominican Republic yesterday. She doesnt need to, she suggests. She keeps talking and she talks fast. We as young socialists believe in a social democratic system which secures a redistribution of resources.. Not today. (The tides of remembrance flow over Christchurch today.). IUSY is a massive organisiation and holds consultative status with the United Nations. Meeting Muslim community leaders in Wellington following the attack. They wanted to redefine the relationship between New Zealanders and their government. Approximately.. I never met him while I worked for him. These prosaic-seeming challenges will resurface. [Peters] said I think we need to be there, says Ardern. The end of Ruthenasia, cheered the Labour-aligned Standard, referring to the nickname given to the brutal austerity program initiated by Richardsons budget. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. Do you liken yourself to Jacinda Ardern? And my bet is that no one would. I pointed this out when we met again in Auckland, and Ardern leaned back with a sigh, knowing where this was going. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's full speech at the opening of the APEC CEO Summit 2021. Comrades this, comrades that. Wouldnt it be good if the president of the United States showed greater moral leadership? Trotsky basically designed the blueprint for all of the organised chaos that is occurring in most western societies today. At Waitangi in early February, I had asked Ardern about the international attention she had attracted for being young, for being a new mother. 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. Lets do this, went the slogan. These stories, they now form part of our collective memories. That, very quickly, was clear to me, when I heard that a mosque had been targeted. I get asked: Do you compare yourself to X or Y politician? and Ill then get a string of male politicians from around the world mostly, to be fair, because there arent too many females. ), (My greetings to the whole of Ngi Tahu.). 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. Politics is changing in Aotearoa, as it is all over the world. Succinctly, steelily, the prime minister framed what had happened in her own terms. 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. It has no place in NZ. I wonder then what is the exact point whereby "inequality"becomes acceptable? 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. These are my notes for the first press conference, she explains. Terrible bone structure. On the contrary, gun crimes rose to a 10-year high after the law went into effect, according to Radio New Zealand. Photograph: Jessie Casson/The Guardian, Jacinda Ardern: Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. The Unions focus was human rights and equal opportunities for the worlds children. Humanity. 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. But does this make the Labour Party socialist? The information was patchy and it was very difficult to decipher exactly what had happened, she recalls. Sidebar: Ive never trusted people who talk too fast. The alternative option is that we come out and say, for instance, on child poverty, that weve got these really minimalist targets. One Christchurch-based broadcaster issued an apology for an earlier column about Islam, saying, I look back at my comments ashamed. And in a powerful speech a week after the attack, Gamal Fouda, the imam of Al Noor mosque, where 42 worshippers were killed, said the murders did not come overnight, but were the result of the anti-Muslim rhetoric of some political leaders, media agencies and others. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure., After the service I meet Tofazzal Alam, a Bangladesh-born New Zealander who was in the Linwood mosque when it was attacked. Now Im finding out what every parent finds out: its not about whats possible or whats not, its about making it work. I knew what I wanted to say about that straight away. 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. Ardern took that on, too, in her parliamentary speech on 19 March, four days after the attack. 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. Well, considering no night last week finished before midnight and some mornings started before five for her, I can understand, he replies. Following the Christchurch attacks, Ardern was asked at a press conference if she agreed with Trumps downplaying of the rise of white supremacy. They will remain with us forever. 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. Printed on the back is the running order for an event she hosted in Auckland the night before the attack. And then, within 15 minutes, I can be back in the hotel room having Neve spit pumpkin on my shoe. Today, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable, she has the worlds ear. 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 . Yeah there you go. The critical thing has been the inclusive approach. You just do what feels right.. At age 28, she was its youngest member. Contact for complaints and communications under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, Constructive Criticism and Team Work In Politics. Sometimes a story is best told alongside a beautiful picture, Here's a small selection of some of our favourite 2020 picture books from local creators. She had, though, seen the shooters manifesto, the 74-page screed he posted online. 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. Over the past two weeks we have heard the stories of those impacted by this terrorist attack. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. 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. Its intuitive. No, she said, bluntly. He called his wife. 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. 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. 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. and served as president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. (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. Of course she needed to project New Zealands voice, but her focus was on domestic priorities. Instead, Ardern and her comrades stated: Redistribution will lead to more financial stability and justice. Someone is killing us. Arderns words and actions have been really important for our community, and for people who have lost loved ones, he says. But even when we had no words, we still heard yours, and they have left us humbled and they have left us united. For example, is a 20 per centgap of "inequality"acceptable? 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. A staffer also tells me that Neve has been teething. Jacinda governs by dictate. 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. 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. (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting. For me, its implicit now, she says. Just a few months later it was revealed that the prime minister was pregnant. 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. Does that mean that the clock needs to be reset so everyone is equal again? And we remember, that ours is a home that does not and cannot claim perfection. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. 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. She calls herself a progressive. 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. She worked only very indirectly for Blair, she said. The other is that shes actually pretty smart. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered New Zealand's 2021 budget at Parliament on May 20, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. 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? Were deciding whether I can get away with jandal-wear for the latter part of the afternoon, she confided. Understandably the global media paint the. Even in utero, Neve had made her presence known. Her playlists include the Beatles and some of her favourite Kiwi bands like Street Chant and Opossom. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three . And she speaks very quickly. A responsibility to be the place that we wish to be. If you value what we do and believe in the importance of independent and freely accessible journalism tautoko mai,donate today. Im making an assumption here, but everyone knows that raising kids is hard work and I dont expect theyd want someone to gloss over that or pretend its easy. The revival of socialism in mainstream politics has been one of the bigger developments of the last five years. 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. (Hagen Hopkins / Getty Images). 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