On her first day back at work after a triumphant trip to Paris, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern welcomed President Russell M. Nelson, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Nelson told Ardern the church will make donations to leaders of the two mosques where a gunman killed 51 people in Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Jacinda Ardern’
Jacinda Ardern avoiding Official Information Act request
Monday, February 11th, 2019
Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern has declined to answer important Official Information Act questions on public policy sent to her by Right to Life. The principle questions asked were:- Is it still your policy to retain a restriction on abortions imposed at 20 weeks gestation in the Crimes Act section 187A in your proposed legislation to Read more
PM shows support for Rapid Relief team
Monday, February 11th, 2019New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has shown her support for the Rapid Relief Team, who have been feeding hundreds of emergency services personnel and Defence staff battling forest fires in the Nelson-Tasman region. The RRT, an initiative of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, is staffed by Church volunteers who provide catering services during a Read more
Does prime minster Ardern pray?
Thursday, July 19th, 2018
Does Jacinda Ardern talk to God? “No. But I have a real respect for people who have religion as a foundation in their lives, ” she told Pathos in a recently published interview. “And I respect people who don’t. I’m agnostic. “I don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. “I do Read more
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is wrong
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Prime Minister, Ms Jacinda Ardern repeatedly says the Labour-led Government will be measured by the way it treats its most vulnerable. Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up on behalf of women and the New Zealand’s most vulnerable; the unborn. It speaks for the authentic feminist position, namely to oppose abortion, which is violence Read more
If neoliberalism has failed, what would Labour replace it with?
Monday, September 18th, 2017
Jacinda Ardern says neoliberalism has failed, as does former National Party Prime Minister Jim Bolger. “Any expectation that we just simply allow that the market to dictate our outcomes for people is where I would want to make sure that we were more interventionist,” Ardern told Radio New Zealand. So what is neoliberalism? As colleague Henry Cooke put it: “neoliberalism Read more
Abortion – Down’s syndrome advocacy group condemn pledge to decriminalise
Thursday, September 7th, 2017
A Down’s syndrome advocacy group has condemned Jacinda Ardern’s pledge to decriminalise abortion, saying it will allow abortion for disability till up to 40 weeks. Ardern has responded by saying abortions up to 40 weeks would not be made legal under Labour. Despite this, Saving Downs created a social media post using Labour’s campaign slogan Read more
Lines drawn on abortion law reform
Monday, March 13th, 2017
The Abortion Supervisory Committee has recommended an update of New Zeleand’s abortion laws. Prime Minister Bill English disagrees. On the other hand Labour leader, Andrew Little believes reform is necessary as does his newly elected deputy, Jacinda Ardern. On TVNZ’s Q & A programme on Sunday morning English told interviewer Corrin Dann that he is Read more