“Ardern is not heeding this newspaper’s sage advice” - ‘the Australian’s’ attack on Jacinda Adern
The
attacks on the new Labour-Green-NZ First givernment mount before they
have even announced their Cabinet and enounced their policies –
this time from Rupert Murdoch’s mouthpiece, the Australian.
Reading the article you could forget you are reading one of Australia's main daily newspapers and make the mistake of thinking this was from the comments on Kiwiblog or from Whaleoil.
I
would not be surprised if there is full-blown sabotage by the banks,
foreign businesses, intelligence services, neo-liberal “public
service” if the government tries to put their policies into
practise.
I
have no illusons about what they are up against.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/cutandpaste/kiwis-now-led-by-a-commie-as-ardern-attacks-capitalism-and-embraces-socialist-roots/news-story/fd668ae312f1833e740f8cd5bc731c51
New
Zealand’s new prime minister-designate’s take on capitalism.
Jacinda Ardern on New Zealand’s Channel Three, Saturday:
When
you have a market economy, it all comes down to whether or not you
acknowledge where the market has failed and where intervention is
required. Has it failed our people in recent times? Yes.
Ardern is not heeding this newspaper’s sage advice. The Australian’s editorial, Friday:
Ms
Ardern has promised intervention in the housing market. Mr (Winston)
Peters will demand a clampdown on migration. But they would be
foolish to overturn the direction of recent years.
We
can hardly be surprised since Ardern is the former head of the
International Union of Socialist Youth ... Ardern at the IUSY
festival in Hungary, July 21. 2009:
We
are losing ... I don’t just mean against the neoliberal agenda we
are all fighting.
Neoliberalism
has been pretty good for Kiwis when you think about it. The
Australian’s editorial, Friday:
Unemployment
is under 5 per cent and the IMF projects New Zealand is heading for a
surplus of 2.8 per cent of GDP in 2022, which would outdo all other
25 advanced countries except oil-rich Norway.
Comrade
Ardern continues at the Hungary Socialist Youth Conference:
With
everyone discussing the economic crisis, we called it what it was: A
neoliberal crisis.
John
Key was talking about the economic crisis when he ran against the
failing Labor-NZ First government. The then-opposition leader in
Auckland, October 13, 2008:
Labour
doesn’t have what it takes to get us through this one. They have
ignored the evolving economic crisis and they have done so at your
peril.
And
Key did a bang-up job cleaning up NZ Labour’s economic mess. The
Australian, December 5 last year:
New
Zealand’s business leaders have praised retiring Prime Minister
John Key for restoring pride in his people and for standing for a
decade at the forefront of world leaders for his economic and social
reforms.
Ardern
has a slightly different worldview ... The Socialist Youth Festival
in Hungary, July 21, 2009:
I
want to invite the leaders of our delegations on to the stage to join
us in The Internationale.
The
Australian’s Chris Kenny sums up Ardern’s new regime on Twitter,
yesterday:
Political
leaders who didn’t know the world before the (Berlin) wall came
down. And haven’t been educated about it. A worry.
New
Zealand has enough to worry about other than socialism at the moment.
The Australian online, Saturday night:
Australia
has hung on to defeat New Zealand 23-18 in an epic if untidy Test
match at Suncorp Stadium tonight.
And
some Kiwis think Ardern may be to blame ... NZ Herald, yesterday:
They
(the All Blacks) have never won a World Cup while we have had a
female politician on the top floor of the Beehive. The ABs have
bombed out of World Cups while Dame Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark
have been PM.
Sexist
hogwash. Though Ardern’s newly introduced national anthem may have
put the All Blacks off the game ... Eugène Pottier, June 1871:
This
is the final struggle / Let us group together, and tomorrow / The
Internationale / Will be the human race.
Meanwhile,
to demonstrate that Australia is a fully-fledged fascist state and
NOT A DEMOCRACY, we have the case of a biker (admittedly not a
fine-an-upstanding citizen), originally from New Zealand but having spent the last 42 of his 50 years in Australia, being deported after winning three court cases
including Australia's
highest court ruling that his treatment was unconstitutional
Notorious bikie gang boss AJ Graham: 'I'm not here to threaten NZ'
AJ
Graham - who spent two and a half years in a prison after founding
the Rebels biker gang in Tasmania - has voluntarily returned to New
Zealand.
"When
I came on Tuesday, as soon as I got outside the airport I kissed the
ground to speak to the spirits and the gods that I'm back home,"
he told RNZ from a motel in Auckland.
"I'm
not here to threaten New Zealand in any form or matter. I'm glad to
be free and I feel good to be back here in New Zealand.
I have respect for all, but you disrespect me and then you'll see me,
y'know."
Since
being incarcerated Graham has won his visa back three times, most
recently last month in Australia's highest court which ruled his
treatment was unconstitutional.
It
didn't matter. Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton simply
recancelled his visa for a third time.
"I
fought the government, I beat them twice and the third time I
thought, 'there's no justice where Peter Dutton and the Government of
Australia making a mockery of the Queen's court'," Graham said.
"He
had it in for bikers, for club people, he just had it in for New
Zealanders more than anything, and Islanders as well."
Graham's
deportation made headlines on both sides of the Tasman after one of
Australia's highest-profile immigration battles. One of 154 senior
bikies targeted in an immigration-versus-crime clampdown since 2014,
he got a rough sending off.
"Another
one bites the dust" read one online post. "Totally
self-inflicted" said another.
However,
a third said: "Would much prefer someone like him here than the
politicians that kicked him out".
Graham
is 50, lived in Australia for 42 years, and leaves behind in Hobart
his wife, three adult children and two daughters aged 11 and 12.
He
was undecided on them returning to New Zealand but did not want to
see them uprooted.
"I
come to a point to voluntarily sign and voluntarily leave Australia
and my children and grandchildren behind, because it's pointless,
there's nothing else I can do. I've been to the Federal Court and the
High Court."
"I'm
a fighter through and through ... I'm proud to be a Māori and proud
to be a warrior and I'm not afraid of anything."
He
is not under a Returning Offenders Order, so refused to be
fingerprinted or give a DNA sample to police who met him off the
plane.
A
life member of the Rebels, he dismissed fears that New Zealand police
have previously voiced about how deported bikers were bolstering the
ranks of violent gangs.
"We're
not a threat to New Zealand. We're happy to be free ... we're happy
to keep peace."
"I've
got different sorts of shady friends but I also got nice friends and
I've done a lot of charity work for the community."
He
admits to having been locked up more than once for assault but, "I
don't think Australians are afraid of me".
The
New Zealand government needed to be braver in standing up for its
citizens in Australia, Graham said. "Maybe I might even run in
the politics."
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