At Waitangi in early February, I had asked Ardern about the international attention she had attracted for being young, for being a new mother. No, she said, bluntly. Locals started leaving tributes here on 15 March; today they form a river, filling the pavement for 250 metres. Who had sought refuge, or sought a better life for themselves or their families. They wanted to redefine the relationship between New Zealanders and their government. Accordingly, to understand Arderns political ideology it is important to revisit 2008, when she entered Parliament as a Labour list-MP. Even in utero, Neve had made her presence known. These stories, they now form part of our collective memories. 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. There is very little time to sit and think in those terms. But, otherwise, I dont tend to draw parallels. She paused. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. She wooed the world with talk of kindness and compassion, while at home ruling like a dictator. I pointed this out when we met again in Auckland, and Ardern leaned back with a sigh, knowing where this was going. t Waitangi in early February, I had asked Ardern about the international attention she had attracted for being young, for being a new mother. (He is a criminal. In the past her invocations of kindness might have been dismissed as slogans. But Peters decided against backing the three-term incumbent National party. Last week I went half a day with my shirt inside out., For Ardern, Neve helps keep things in perspective. But I am pragmatic about how much time that sometimes takes. The optimism tends to win out. 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. 493 The biggest misconception about Jacinda Ardern is that she is a pioneering progressive or socialist. 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. In the days that have followed the terrorist attack on the 15th of March, we have often found ourselves without words. 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. I struggle not to smile, Ardern said through clenched teeth. Yeah there you go. And we remember, that ours is a home that does not and cannot claim perfection. His views are his own and do not represent Massey University. 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 . Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered New Zealand's 2021 budget at Parliament on May 20, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. Hansard (Debates) Also in this . I just know we have a lot of work to do to make that universal.. I hadnt thought about it in those terms. Jacinda Ardern's graceful departure is the personification of modern democratic ideals Van Badham The New Zealand prime minister's bold and resolute leadership neutralised hoary stereotypes. Im a socialist! piped up Tukituki MP Anna Lorck at one point. I am a pragmatic idealist, she told me. OPINION: It is important to understand political ideologies because they provide a lens into the underpinning beliefs and values that guide political goals and decision-making. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 17 April 2018, Berlin Kia ora and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. Today, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable, she has the worlds ear. I am especially grateful to be hosted by FES. 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. Discussions surrounding a potential delay in elections gripped many countries around the . The critical thing has been the inclusive approach. Not today. He lives in Toronto, Canada. And so I see that there was a weight of expectation there. Ardern was named Labour's spokesperson for youth . Humanity. E papaki t ana ng tai o maumahara ki runga o tautahi. It was time to torpedo the status quo, he said, and at 72, he opted to become deputy to a thirtysomething prime minister. Opinion. In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, a role that took her around the world. 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. 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. 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. 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. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. That position allowed her to travel to such places as China, Algeria, India, and Lebanon. Not so much, Ardern says. Looking for your kid's next great read? She was being a little bit vocal, Ardern said when we met later that day, at the hotel down the road. 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. However, she just couldnt stop her desire to help others and ended up working at a New York soup kitchen, serving food to the poor and homeless people of the city. She calls herself a progressive. Lets do this, went the slogan. Leighton Smith has been dispatching stone cold common sense to ZB listeners between breakfast and noon for three decades. But personally, Id prefer a lineup of self-described liberals governing like socialists, rather than a group of proud socialists governing like neoliberals. Bunches of flowers, handmade cards and soft toys line the footpath. 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. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. A handful of words have been highlighted in bright orange. 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. Trotsky basically designed the blueprint for all of the organised chaos that is occurring in most western societies today. Politics is changing in Aotearoa, as it is all over the world. (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. US Vogue dubbed her the anti-Trump. 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. Previously the youngest Prime Minister, it appears she has run out of energy right when public opinion is turning on her beloved Labour Party. 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. We have consensus really built into our system. I think its just the nature of an event like this. Fifteen times. 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. his interview was due to go to press the day the news of the Christchurch attacks emerged. Nau mai, haere mai ki tnei hui. And then, within 15 minutes, I can be back in the hotel room having Neve spit pumpkin on my shoe. 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? Following the Christchurch attacks, Ardern was asked at a press conference if she agreed with Trumps downplaying of the rise of white supremacy. We didnt even know a confirmed toll. Didnt that make her angry, I ask Ardern when we meet in Wellington. 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. 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. At age 28, she was its youngest member. 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. Some of you may well know that, some years ago, I was the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. And there is little sign that, beyond emergency measures necessitated by the pandemic, the party is planning to permanently re-expand the size and scope of government. 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? 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. The Unions focus was human rights and equal opportunities for the worlds children. Jacinda governs by dictate. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don't matter! 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. Use the key to unlock the secret message! 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. Haere atu r. I was saying to someone the other day how long ago it feels since I was up north [at home]. And you dont pick that sort of thing up because youre not a Marxist. I said what I needed to say, she says, pausing and taking a slow, diplomatic breath of air, her hands clasped around her knees. If anyone out there has a better photo let us know! Here are a few things you might not have known about the leader of New Zealands Labour party: Jacinda was born in Hamilton on 26 July 1980 and her family then moved to Murupara, where Jacindas father Ross worked as a policeman. Sidebar: Ive never trusted people who talk too fast. The Iraq war. Jeremy Corbyns leadership led to a surge in left-wing membership in the UK Labour Party and ongoing wins by the partys socialists in local governments all over the country. But with that memory comes a responsibility. 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. This was my first press conference. And yet Arderns response, her choice of language, has mattered enormously. This is at the Youth Socialist conference, she was the president in 2009, and she used the word comrade 15 times in eight minutes. 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. Gun law reforms, intended to ban all semi-automatic firearms, were expedited, with cross-party support. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. Jacinda was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Answer (1 of 14): 1. Really, upholding the community standards that theyve set themselves, I think, is what people are asking for Were asking for them to invest in ways to prevent the kind of harm we saw in the aftermath. Incoming prime minister Jacinda Ardern says capitalism has been a "blatant failure" in New Zealand when measured by child poverty.. Ardern is the former head of the International Union of Socialist Youth so it is no surprise that our new Prime Minister thinks capitalism is a blatant failure. 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. Sometimes, what youre promoting isnt tangible. 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. The revival of socialism in mainstream politics has been one of the bigger developments of the last five years. Whether or not I thought he would necessarily take on board what I said, is another question. 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. 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. She was elected uncontested at IUSY's world congress held in the Dominican Republic yesterday. As IUSY we struggle for redistribution between the north and the south and for redistribution between the poor and the rich, because we believe in equality and justice., On the same trajectory, Ardern and her comrades said:Human beings are born with unequal resources available. Her partner, Clarke Gayford, she smiles, is not impressed. Shes not putting on an act. Up on the ninth floor, the early morning sun scythes in through panoramic windows, the harbour just visible in the distance. She is sharp. Here are some of the best-non fiction audiobooks read aloud by the authors themselves. Not quite. 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. Its heartening to see New Zealands Labour government finally acting on years of pleas and demands to take the popular measure of lifting benefits. I dont know. Team play is more important than ever in politics. E te whnau o APEC, ka mihi a Aotearoa Niu Tireni ki a koutou katoa. Comrades means something. Its not known if she has ever resigned, so if she is still a member today, that would bring it close to 15 or even as much as 20 years. And we also ask that the condemnation of violence and terrorism turns now to a collective response. The Spinoffs political coverage is powered by the generous support of our members. A staffer also tells me that Neve has been teething. Little wonder CPAG and other experts and anti-poverty campaigners have been bitterly underwhelmed by the governments announcement. The word progressive is a dirty word, to be blunt, in my philosophy. Jacinda was more surprised than anyone when she was handed the leadership aft. I never met him while I worked for him. When the shooting began, he threw himself to the ground. The first step would be recalling that it was more than just a merciless assault on welfare. People tend to know what that means.. A responsibility to be the place that we wish to be. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. 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. She wooed the world with talk of kindness and compassion, while at home ruling like a dictator. 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