A financial reckoning of a departing PM's legacy

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Apr 4, 2023 · 17m

TL;DR: Former PM Jacinda Ardern will give her valedictory speech at 5.30 pm in Parliament today. She will rightly be farewelled with affection by her colleagues and by many, including me, who admired her decisive and empathetic actions as PM during the March attacks and the first year of Covid.

I recommend watching the full uncut interview from last night on 1News with John Campbell. Ardern was an extraordinary politician who achieved so much that wasn’t expected and worked brutally hard at much personal cost, but who ultimately didn’t deliver the improvements in housing, on climate and in…