Jacinda Ardern has choked back tears as she announced her resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister in an emotional press conference.
Her resignation comes into effect on Sunday if the Labour Party can elect her replacement, or on February 7 if the process was drawn out.
Ms Ardern said she hoped to find the energy and heart during the Christmas break to stay in the job, ‘but I have not been able to do that’.
Mummy’s little eco-activist gets laughed at:
Climate change activist Izzy Cook goes on the radio warning people not to travel overseas to remote locations like Fiji. To save the planet, of course.
When she’s asked where she last went, she says Fiji. The interviewer can’t stop laughing at her. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/4zJaQczXZK
— Catch Up (@CatchUpNetwork) September 27, 2022
New Zealand is a fascinating country – amazing geography, likeable population, and, unlike its neighbour Australia, most of its wildlife isn’t planning on killing you at the slightest opportunity. It is also fascinating with respect to Covid because its population has a very high vaccination rate across all age groups (well, down to five), but up until recently there has been negligible natural immunity to Covid. Because of these two factors, New Zealand was always going to be of interest as soon as Covid arrived properly, if only to see how its vaccination efforts had protected its population.
The border crossings in Canada may have been cleared under Justin Trudeau’s new “emergency mandate” tyranny, but not so in New Zealand. The Freedom Convoy established in Wellington by some Kiwis who oppose the government’s COVID mandates has dug in on the lawns outside of the Parliament building and the police response has grown more confrontational.
In the article published by the Brownstone Institute, SUNY Cortland Assistant Professor Jared McBrady outlined how Trudeau and other leaders including French President Emmanual Macron were “othering” the unvaccinated.
McBrady described “othering” as the “process of dehumanizing through marginalizing a group of humans as something different, less than, and other. Such othered groups become an easy target to scapegoat, unfairly bearing the blame for a society’s ills.”
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that patients suffering from the Wuhan coronavirus could be eligible for a right to a lethal injection under the nation’s new euthanasia law.
It is a curious irony that the West’s leading progressive icon is probably the most authoritarian leader in the free world today. Since sweeping to power in 2017, the New Zealand prime minister has been repeatedly lauded by the London intelligentsia as the ideal model of a liberal, centrist premier. This is despite the blessed Jacinda’s stock response to every public policy crisis being to restrict or ban the offending phenomena in question. After Christchurch it was guns; for Covid it was lockdowns, with bans on the unvaccinated. Now Ardern has stumbled onto the solution to smoking: why not simply ban cigarettes?
WATCH: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern says her country has created a special account to fund journalists who will produce government-approved stories on Covid-19.pic.twitter.com/GkIFGsJkSD
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) December 10, 2021
h/t Mauser98
People aged 14 and under in 2027 will never be allowed to purchase cigarettes in the Pacific country of 5 million, part of proposals unveiled on Thursday that will also curb the number of retailers authorised to sell tobacco and cut nicotine levels in all products.
Considering the continued scientific research showing vaccinated and unvaccinated people can both carry, shed and transmit the COVID-19 virus, the entire precept behind COVID passports makes no sense.
In Queensland, Australia, the state government contracted and built COVID Quarantine Camps to the West of Brisbane in a place near Toowoomba. However, with 70% of the population now vaccinated, and with a large majority of all Australian citizens now vaccinated, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was recently questioned about the need for a 1,000 bed involuntary quarantine camp as the state is opening up.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand proudly admits that she has created two classes of people — the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. pic.twitter.com/RkwzPGAU04
— Amy Tarkanian (@MrsT106) October 24, 2021
Two men have been arrested after police said they found them with a car boot-full of Kentucky fried chicken and over $100,000 in cash as they tried to cross the border into Auckland despite New Zealand’s strict Covid-19 lockdown.
Supermarket Chain in New Zealand Reportedly Takes Knives Off Shelves After Stabbing Attack
Following Friday’s terrorist attack in New Zealand’s city of Auckland, supermarket giant Countdown has temporarily removed all knives and scissors from sale, the New Zealand Herald reported.
“We want all of our team to feel safe when they come to work, especially considering the events of yesterday,” Countdown’s General Manager of Corporate Affairs Kiri Hannifin told the newspaper.
The newspaper further reported that Countdown is even considering stopping the sale of all knives and scissors permanently. Foodstuffs NZ also retrieved their knives from sale.
A known extremist was responsible for a terror attack in Auckland which has seen six people injured, three of whom are in critical condition, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday evening.
The man was shot and killed by members of a police Special Tactics Group within 60 seconds of the attack beginning, Ardern said. He was a Sri Lankan national who came to New Zealand in October 2011 and has been considered a “person of national security interest” from 2016.
Ardern said she was limited in what more she could share about the man as a result of suppression orders made by the court, although a spokesman for the Prime Minister later confirmed the Crown was “seeking the court’s urgent lifting of the suppression orders, which will be filed this [Friday] evening”.
Seems he was a known unknown – ‘Violent extremist’ responsible for mall terrorist attack was ‘known threat to New Zealand’
New Zealand has agreed that a suspected member of Islamic State who grew up in Australia can be repatriated from Turkey along with her two young children, a decision prime minister Jacinda Ardern said was “not taken lightly”.
The woman was a dual Australian-New Zealand citizen until Australia revoked her citizenship and refused to reverse the decision, prompting a furious response earlier this year from Ardern, who accused Australia of shirking its responsibilities.
On Monday, Ardern said the government had “taken into account our international responsibilities as well as the details of this particular case, including the fact that children are involved”.
They should be left to rot.
