Ardern took that on, too, in her parliamentary speech on 19 March, four days after the attack. 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. READ MORE: * Iwi-run coronavirus checkpoints are a nonsense but police aren't stopping them * Prime minister needs to be held to account over coronavirus claims * Anti-virus measures are too late to stop needless sickness and economic pain. It was a tough choice between being a clown (because they have so much fun) or a scientist (like her big sister Louise), but when she realised her passion for helping others, Jacinda chose politics. Locals started leaving tributes here on 15 March; today they form a river, filling the pavement for 250 metres. Contact for complaints and communications under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, Constructive Criticism and Team Work In Politics. But I am pragmatic about how much time that sometimes takes. The optimism tends to win out. A lot of pumpkin. They are the publisher. 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. 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. That 1991 document had aimed to complete the neoliberal revolution started by Labour itself in the mid-1980s. 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. We never have been. I never met him while I worked for him. US Vogue dubbed her the anti-Trump. Theres no point at which you can say: I give up on being a parent or I give up on doing this job., There is no nanny. It was shortly after 11am and the speeches, from local elders, from politicians, echoed back and forth across the lawn. Penguin Books New Zealand A Penguin Random House Company, 12 of the best non-fiction audiobooks narrated by authors, Everything you need to know before watching Lockwood & Co on Netflix, Feeling lost and overwhelmed this holiday season? 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. After graduating from a Bachelor of Communications at the University of Waikato, Jacinda took some time to travel overseas. People have remarked upon the way weve responded, but to me there was no question. 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. I absolutely knew what I wanted to say. I knew what I wanted to say about that straight away. But Peters decided against backing the three-term incumbent National party. This is at the Youth Socialist conference, she was the president in 2009, and she used the word comrade 15 times in eight minutes. 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. 493 The biggest misconception about Jacinda Ardern is that she is a pioneering progressive or socialist. E papaki t ana ng tai o maumahara ki runga o tautahi. And we also ask that the condemnation of violence and terrorism turns now to a collective response. Ill show you something, says Jacinda Ardern. Theres something very grounding about that. But I said what I needed to say., I try again. The other is that shes actually pretty smart. At school, her mother once revealed, she convened a happy club. She highlighted recent reforms to help disadvantaged Mori, to lift children out of poverty, most notably in the form of a families package that boosted assistance to low- and middle-income families. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. Lets do this, went the slogan. She crosses the office to her desk and pulls an A4 sheet of paper from a drawer. 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. Not today. Ardern returned to New Zealand and entered the House of Representatives in 2008. If so, this must be the most unusual socialist party in the world. Already on our list? 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.). Today, in the most appalling circumstances imaginable, she has the worlds ear. [Applause] Thank you very much. Its made a huge difference.. For example, the meeting documents state the aim of the union is to defend and spread our core socialist principles. 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. 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. Leighton Smith has been dispatching stone cold common sense to ZB listeners between breakfast and noon for three decades. Approximately.. That, very quickly, was clear to me, when I heard that a mosque had been targeted. He called his wife. The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and most of those who graduated from the Marxist group the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) are actually followers of Leon Trotsky (1879 -1940). 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. In the past weeks, New Zealand has reckoned with its own history. President Joe Biden welcomed socialist New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to the White House on Tuesday to discuss economic ties, gun control, and "space exploration" but not, reports indicated, Ardern's decision to use Chinese coronavirus measures to delay the 2020 New Zealand election.. As if becoming a mother and prime minister were not challenging enough, Ardern found herself hailed as a standard bearer for women everywhere. Ardern was grinning. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. She was elected uncontested at IUSY's world congress held in the Dominican Republic yesterday. But she is done with that kind of question. I thought, yeah, that looks all right, thatll do.. This is a huge achievement. 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. And yet Arderns response, her choice of language, has mattered enormously. But personally, Id prefer a lineup of self-described liberals governing like socialists, rather than a group of proud socialists governing like neoliberals. When she was made leader of the Labour party, with weeks to go before the 2017 election, the campaign was built around a self-described relentlessly positive outlook. I look forward to hearing about the success of socialism in curing child poverty. Printed on the back is the running order for an event she hosted in Auckland the night before the attack. 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. 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. Given we are facing what is likely to be many years of economic turmoil and hardship, the political ideology of our Government needs to be laid bare so we can gain insights into what a post-Covid-19 New Zealand economy might look like. As-salaam Alaikum. I wonder then what is the exact point whereby "inequality"becomes acceptable? 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 . It focused on her pledge to make 2019 a year of delivery, and some signs that the halo of the Jacindamania that brought her to office had begun to dim. 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. If anyone out there has a better photo let us know! Official records of that meeting give us insights into Arderns political ideology. He is an extremist, she told parliament four days later. They were simple words, repeated by community leaders who witnessed the loss of their friends and loved ones. Let that be the legacy of the 15th of March. The second of two daughters born to a Mormon family . The Guardians photographer asked Ardern to stand in the stripes, a film-noirish sort of pose. A year earlier, she had become the first female prime minister to speak at the Waitangi pwhiri, a significant moment in the New Zealand calendar, and the youngest, at 37. 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. Download our Taking the Lead word search here! Jacinda Ardern is one of New Zealand's young politicians, Sarah Hall sits down with her to find out just what her aspirations are. 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. The information was patchy and it was very difficult to decipher exactly what had happened, she recalls. But with that memory comes a responsibility. 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. 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. 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. I think we were musing about this the risk of ambition. Nau mai, haere mai ki tnei hui. We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness. Not quite. The word progressive is a dirty word, to be blunt, in my philosophy. They will remain with us forever. Her opponents sneered that it was all just stardust, but the party surged on a wave of Jacindamania. No friend of free speech, she had little regard for public opinion and no respect for those with a contrary view. 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 Spinoffs political coverage is powered by the generous support of our members. Dozens of buses are parked sideways around the perimeter, forming makeshift ramparts. 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. Speaking at a Maori ceremony at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. 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.. For a school project, Jacinda interviewed former Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring and was very impressed by how friendly and helpful Ms Waring was. The co-creators of Hero of the Sea interview each other about writing, illustrating and their latest collaboration. 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. It was time to torpedo the status quo, he said, and at 72, he opted to become deputy to a thirtysomething prime minister. The first step would be recalling that it was more than just a merciless assault on welfare. Gayford is the primary caregiver and shuttles back and forth with Neve between their home in Auckland and Wellington. It felt very deliberate: was it? 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. . 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. Ardern stares out the question for several seconds, grimacing. This means Ardern must negotiate with both NZ First and the Green party to advance any legislation. Photograph: Jessie Casson/The Guardian, Jacinda Ardern: Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. That position allowed her to travel to such places as China, Algeria, India, and Lebanon. 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. 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. Do you liken yourself to Jacinda Ardern? And my bet is that no one would. 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. The answer lies in our humanity. 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. Following the Christchurch attacks, Ardern was asked at a press conference if she agreed with Trumps downplaying of the rise of white supremacy. She worked only very indirectly for Blair, she said. What words express the grief of a city that has already known so much pain? Richardson used several different economic issues including a higher-than-expected deficit forecast and a recent credit-rating downgrade to finish the job, making steep welfare cuts of around 2030 percent the centerpiece of the budget. 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. It had just gone 2pm, and a wall of the meeting room was lit in horizontal lines, stencilled through Venetian blinds. If you dont pause occasionally then youre talking nonsense, you dont know what youre saying. An assault on the freedom of any one of us who practices their faith or religion, is not welcome here. Jacinda Ardern is transforming New Zealand into a socialist state. 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. 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. There is very little time to sit and think in those terms. (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting. Understandably the global media paint the. 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. I wonder if they get asked the same question. Bernie Sanderss two presidential campaigns sparked a series of elections of democratic socialists at every level of US government. 2. Or does it need to be closer, like 10 per cent? 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. Progressives are socialists. Needless to say, Labours budget has nothing approaching this ambition, nor does it even try to reverse all this. 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. Appointed as New Zealand's Prime Minister in 2017, Jacinda Ardern has been described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. The 50 names of the dead are read aloud, the only other sound the whirring of a police helicopter in the distance. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. And over the last two weeks we have shown that, you have shown that, in your actions. The prime minister was deep in conversation with her press secretary when she arrived for the formal part of our interview at Waitangi in February. Earlier that decade, she lived for two and a half years in London, where . And the budget further tilted economic policy in a trickle-up direction, with beneficiaries losing one-fifth of their income (or as high as one-third for single-parent beneficiaries), even as the rich prospered. Half a lifetime and seven weeks ago, I watched Ardern as she sat on the porch of Te Whare Rnanga, the Maori meeting house at Waitangi. Succinctly, steelily, the prime minister framed what had happened in her own terms. Its very genuine, and people warm to that. The critical thing has been the inclusive approach. Peace be upon you. 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