Posted on 11/19/2024 5:40:46 AM PST by Cronos
A year before American voters’ anger over the cost of living helped Donald J. Trump win the presidency, similar sentiments in New Zealand thrust in the nation’s most conservative government in decades.
Now, New Zealand bears little resemblance to the country recently led by Jacinda Ardern, whose brand of compassionate, progressive politics made her a global symbol of anti-Trump liberalism.
The new government — a coalition of the main center-right party and two smaller, more populist ones — has reversed many of Ms. Ardern’s policies. It has rescinded a world-leading ban on smoking for future generations, repealed rules designed to address climate change and put a former arms-industry lobbyist in charge of overhauling the nation’s strict gun laws.
...This rightward shift is, in a way, reflective of Ms. Ardern’s complicated legacy at home. Her coronavirus policies were lauded initially but ended up being divisive. The pandemic also left the country with a bruising cost of living. When Ms. Ardern stepped down as prime minister in January 2023, before her second term ended, inflation was hovering at 7 percent.
..The government is promoting a bill that would allow some infrastructure projects — like mines, roads and housing developments — to bypass the usually required environmental assessments.
It has vowed to repeal some Ardern-era measures — like a plan to tax farm animals’ methane emissions and a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration — with the argument that they hurt businesses’ bottom line. And it has expanded mining operations, which it argued could become “an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity.”
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Hey Jacinda, why the long face?
enter Granny and Jed Clampit plus Mr Drysdale.
Now Poland needs to get rid of Tusk.
“compassionate, progressive”
More like intolerant, oppressive.
Wasn’t she the one forcing citizens into covid camps? Wasn’t she the one who took people’s guns away because some maggot went mental and killed people? If so, taking people’s inalienable right to defend themselves is NOT compassionate.
New Zealand voted neigh?
Exzdtly. The new York times is so feckless that they even gaslight other nation’s citizens
>> Now Poland needs to get rid of Tusk.
Big time!
There is nothing compassionate about progressive (communist) politics.
Six paragraphs in, and not once is the actual-today leader of NZ mentioned by name. Imagine trying to explain Trump’s victory while only naming Biden.
Incidentally, it’s Christopher Luxon. Since we have the Trump dance, perhaps NZ should begin to promote the Luxon haka.
“compassionate”
I caught that too. There’s nothing compassionate about restricting freedom and imposing communist policies.
Maybe, just maybe that country will swing right enough to be a good place to want to move to. But politics typically ride on a pendulum. Their politics can swing left quite hard anytime, just like ours.
American voters’ anger over the cost of living helped Donald J. Trump win“
Word has gone out. Trump only won because of the price of butter. Repeat
The last I heard, Mike Shepherd is still on the job in Brokenwood
She also fled the country..
what is with these leftist women that look like Mr ed
New Zealand and everywhere else.
Fauci and the CEOs of the Big Pharma companies should hang for what they did to the world.
Millions of deaths and untold damage to the lives of millions more.
I wonder if she is related to a congresswoman from New York?
the real test is what happens with the Maoris
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