Posted on 07/19/2019 4:24:35 AM PDT by naturalman1975
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been left stranded in Australia after her air force jet broke down.
Stuff.co.nz reported Ms Ardern and her former TV fisherman husband Clarke Gayford will fly home on a commercial jet on Friday evening.
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The New Zealand Defence Force said that the dignitaries' aircraft had suffered a 'failure of its air data computer'.
A replacement part will be shipped to Australia on Saturday, a statement said, but Ms Ardern was expected to return home on a commercial flight tonight.
During her time in Melbourne, Ms Ardern confronted Mr Morrison about the Australian government's policy of deporting Kiwi criminals back to NZ.
New Zealanders who moved to Australia as toddlers, only to grow up and commit crimes, have been regularly dumped back over the Tasman Sea.
Australia has deported 4000 people, including 1500 New Zealanders, since new laws were introduced in 2014.
Ms Ardern said the policy isn't 'fair dinkum' and said she will not be letting the issue go.
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I’m pretty sure I’ve met Gideon Polya as it happens - I also live in Melbourne, and it looks like the same bloke I ran into a few times at some university functions here.
If you care dont let tyrants license your weapons. Licensing is a prelude to confiscation
Small world
I learn something new every day.
I now what it means. I lived down under at one time;)
He was still trained as such, combat or not.
CC
Thanks!
Leftists are incapable of asking nicely. I suggest they give her an inflatable pool toy and a big spoon. She can make her own way across.
757’s?!
Seems a bit of overkill for a very small country to move it’s PM around.
I would have thought she would fly commercial, as many leaders of small counties in Europe do...
But, they are an island nation. The plane likely has multiple roles.
Perhaps she can be cut some slack...
Ms Ardern... I don't respect her in the same way.
Thank you for posting this article.
I appreciate your opinion here.
You are doing good work.
Good points.
As someone who has now spent nine months over the last three years in Australia, most of Australia is quite safe.
I worried very little about poisonous beasties.
Running out of fuel, breaking down in remote locations, running out of water... much more serious concerns.
While Australia has some rough spots where you need to watch your back, what country does not?
America has far more places to worry about the most dangerous predator, man, than Australia does.
One of Australia's "First World Problems" is their city dwellers are so safe and civilized, they have no fear of savages, of whatever stripe.
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