Kate Hawkesby: Hipkins needs to show strong leadership and stub this banana republic vibe out

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Feb 27, 2023 · 3m

An opportunity for Chris Hipkins as PM to show real leadership - and a divergent path to his predecessor by acting decisively and quickly on the Health NZ Chair, I reckon.

I think that'd go well for him.

If you've missed this story, former trade unionist Health NZ Chair Rob Campbell, criticised the National’s policy announcement on Three Waters on social media, stating that he thought it was a ‘thin disguise for the dog whistle on co-governance’.

He made a bunch of comments including that, "Luxon might be able to rescue his party from stupidity on climate change but rescuing this from a well…