Claire Trevett: Labour MPs return to Te Tii marae, but Jacinda Ardern s first visit as Prime Minister is another question
2 Feb, 2021 03:38 AM
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The Labour Party was welcomed back to Te Tii Marae at Waitangi today. Photo / Peter de Graaf
The Labour Party was welcomed back to Te Tii Marae at Waitangi today. Photo / Peter de Graaf The return of Labour MPs to Te Tii marae at Waitangi after a three-year absence was a low-key affair that went off without a hitch: but also fell short of re-opening the door for the return of the Prime Minister to the marae.
David Seymour on Covid response and Jacinda Ardern s whereabouts
25 Jan, 2021 03:00 AM
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Act leader David Seymour. Photo / George Novak
The Country
What s good for the Aussies is good for the Kiwis.
Act leader David Seymour is challenging our vaccine response to Covid, after Australia has announced non-emergency approval for Pfizer s vaccine, with rollout in late February.
Seymour told The Country s Jamie McKay our Government needed to give a reason for our slow progress.
He said they ve tried to say the delay is with Medsafe, but the Australian equivalent has approved the vaccine as safe.
Advertisement Why has it taken Medsafe and New Zealand longer, and if it is taking them a long time, what do they know that the Australians don t? Maybe we should be warning the Aussies.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern s Kiwi as start to the year in Tairua
2 Jan, 2021 12:12 AM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with the staff at All Things Organic in Tairua. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern finished 2020 off with a real fruit ice cream during a family holiday in Tairua.
Ardern has spent the last few days in the small town on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, where she rang in the new year with fiancé Clarke Gayford and daughter Neve.
On New Year s Eve, Ardern visited the All Things Organic store in Tairua with Gayford and Neve and even jumped behind the counter for a quick shift .