Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister

[JohnDe]

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will resign as the New Zealand Prime Minister, saying she "no longer had enough in the tank to do it justice".

Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister.

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will resign as the New Zealand Prime Minister, saying she "no longer had enough in the tank to do it justice".

www.abc.net.au

 

[SirRumpole]

Do we really care ?

 

[JohnDe]

Do we really care ?

Do we really care about anything that is in General Chat?

I for one like to know what is happening in our region of the world.

 

[SirRumpole]

Some stuff in GC is well worth reading like the energy thread, but as for JC going, I doubt if it will make much difference to the bi-lateral relationship. The result of the election may, the Opposition leader there is quite a bit further Right that Albo.

 

[wayneL]

I'll bet she turns up somewhere else in the globalist cabal... like Helen Clarke did.

 

[Knobby22]

...and Joe Hockey

 

[wayneL]

...and Joe Hockey

...and plenty of others.

 

[wayneL]

...and plenty of others.

Lex Luthor speaks

 

[sptrawler]

Do we really care about anything that is in General Chat?

I for one like to know what is happening in our region of the world.

Having said that, @sir Rumpole posted exactly the same article in the General Chat " ASF breaking news" thread earlier. Lol

 

[SirRumpole]

Having said that, @sir Rumpole posted exactly the same article in the General Chat " ASF breaking news" thread earlier. Lol

Oh dear someone is having a dig at me

News is news, an in depth discussion is another thing.

I think the 'virtue signaller' description in Jacinda's case is valid, I don't really know if she's made long term improvements to NZ's economy.

 

[frugal.rock]

Too much alright.... It's a celebration she quit. ??

 

[sptrawler]

Oh dear someone is having a dig at me

News is news, an in depth discussion is another thing.

I think the 'virtue signaller' description in Jacinda's case is valid, I don't really know if she's made long term improvements to NZ's economy.

I'm with you, I thought the breaking news was where it deserved to be, if she qualified for a dedicated thread, there would already be one IMO.
Jeez if you only get your own thread, when you leave after 5 years, it doesn't say much for what you did while you mattered. ?

 

[JohnDe]

I'm with you, I thought the breaking news was where it deserved to be, if she qualified for a dedicated thread, there would already be one IMO.
Jeez if you only get your own thread, when you leave after 5 years, it doesn't say much for what you did while you mattered. ?

New Zealand is one of our closest allies, we work together on many levels.

Bilateral relations. Australia and New Zealand are natural allies with a strong trans-Tasman sense of family. Migration, trade and defence ties, keen competition on the sporting field, and strong people-to-people links have helped shape a close and co-operative relationship.

While New Zealand chose not to join the Australian federation in 1901, it maintains close political contact. At a government-to-government level, Australia's relationship with New Zealand is the closest and most comprehensive of all our bilateral relationships. Prime Ministers hold annual formal talks and foreign, trade and defence ministers meet regularly. At the 2022 annual Leaders Meeting, Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Ardern announced annual meetings of Foreign and Defence Ministers and Treasurer/Finance and Climate Change Ministers. New Zealand ministers and government officials often participated with their Australian federal and state counterparts in relevant meetings of the Council of Australian Governments, until the structure was revised following the creation of the National Federation Reform Council in June 2020.

Australia and New Zealand cooperate closely in global and regional fora, including the United Nations, WTO, APEC, East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum, and Pacific Islands Forum. We are both committed to helping build a stronger Pacific family through our long-standing collaboration with Pacific island partners.

Australia and New Zealand have a proud history of joint deployments dating back to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli. Our defence relationship remains as important as ever, and includes recent operations in Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Formal expressions of our security partnership are found in the 1944 Canberra Pact and 1951 ANZUS Treaty. Our bilateral defence relationship is underpinned by the 1991 Closer Defence Relations agreement (CDR), updated in 2018, which provides a broad strategic framework for the bilateral defence relationship. In accordance with the recommendations of the 2011 Review of the Australia-New Zealand Defence Relationship, a framework for closer consultation and engagement on defence has been implemented since 2012.

The 1983 Australia‑New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA or CER) is one of the world's most open and successful free‑trade agreements. The Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN free‑trade agreement (AANZFTA) entered into force on 1 January 2010. Both Australia and New Zealand cooperate closely in pursuing WTO goals, notably through participation in the Cairns Group, a coalition of 19 agriculture‑exporting countries promoting the liberalisation of trade in agriculture.

The Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF), established in 2004, is a private sector-led forum which brings together Australian and New Zealand business and government leaders to reinforce and develop the trans-Tasman economy and business environment. The ANZLF, which is supported by DFAT (and its New Zealand counterpart, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade) is co-chaired on the Australian side by Pip Marlow, and on the New Zealand side by Greg Lowe.

Australian and New Zealand prime ministers hold an annual Leaders' Meeting, the most recent of which took place in Sydney, Australia, on 8 July 2022. During that meeting, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern emphasised the unique closeness of the trans‑Tasman relationship and that Australia and New Zealand stand together in facing a challenging global environment. They discussed people-to-people issues, extending access to services and benefits for citizens across the Tasman, Pacific partnerships, climate change policy, Australia and New Zealand’s engagement in the Indo-Pacific and globally, and responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They emphasised the importance of CER and welcomed its 40th anniversary in 2023, agreeing to celebrate the milestone in a way that reflects the treaty’s vitality and importance.

Foreign ministers meet biannually for trans-Tasman Foreign Minister Consultations, the most recent of which were held in Wellington, New Zealand, in June 2022 between Foreign Minister Penny Wong and New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta. The Ministers recognised that New Zealand and Australia are at their best when they stand united as allies and acknowledged the close cooperation between Australia and New Zealand to support a stable, prosperous and resilient Indo-Pacific region amid sharper global challenges.

Former Trade Minister Dan Tehan and New Zealand Trade Minister Damien O’Connor held the most recent round of annual Closer Economic Relations trade talks on 20 September 2021 to discuss developments concerning CER, as well as global and regional trade issues. They emphasised the way in which CER has contributed to the economic resilience of both Australia and New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic, and reiterated both countries’ commitment to work together bilaterally, regionally and in multilateral fora to support a strong and stable trading system.

Former Defence Minister Peter Dutton and New Zealand Defence Minister Peeni Henare met in Canberra on 25 March 2022, where they discussed a shared commitment to cooperate and collaborate in the Pacific and beyond, emphasising that the trans‑Tasman defence relationship reflected the spirit and essence of our countries’ ANZAC traditions.

https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/new-zealand/new-zealand-country-brief#:~:text=Bilateral%20relations,close%20and%20co%2Doperative%20relationship.

 

[wayneL]

Too much alright.... It's a celebration she quit. ??

Hilarious Clinton has weird ticks too. Perhaps it's the baby's blood? </tongueincheek>

 

[wayneL]

PS: may be a fake but still fkn funny

 

[Knobby22]

This made me laugh. Thick as..
PM Daniel Andrews.

 

[wayneL]

Well, it probably is what causes Dan's wet dreams.

I doubt we are rid of horse face. WEF or UN post coming right up.

Assuming JA does disappear into oblivion though, then Trudeau and Andrews following could only be a good thing.

 

[sptrawler]

New Zealand is one of our closest allies, we work together on many levels.

Is that right, thanks for giving me the heads up, when I go out to Kalgoorlie, i'll personally thank the bouncers.

You do know that the only reason New Zealanders weren't the first people to the moon, was because they ran out of scaffold. ?

 

[The Triangle]

So, does anyone have a real reason why she quit? All the MSM (except Sky) want to write about is how young and wonderful she is.

Just believe what she said that she's a gutless weak 42-year-old?
Pushed out by her party?
Realized she wouldn't win the next election and bailed?
Promised a lucrative job by the WEF elites?

 

[SirRumpole]

So, does anyone have a real reason why she quit? All the MSM (except Sky) want to write about is how young and wonderful she is.

Just believe what she said that she's a gutless weak 42-year-old?
Pushed out by her party?
Realized she wouldn't win the next election and bailed?
Promised a lucrative job by the WEF elites?

Spend more time with family.