Heather du Plessis-Allan: Jacinda Ardern s treatment of the Cook Islands is paternalism
10 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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We think we know what s best for the Cook Islands. We might not. Photo / Getty Images
We think we know what s best for the Cook Islands. We might not. Photo / Getty Images
OPINION:
For more than a week it went it largely unnoticed that the Cook Islands Prime Minister had defiantly declared he was opening his border to New Zealand. Mark Brown came to New Zealand last week hoping to secure from Jacinda Ardern a date for the Cooks travel bubble. He didn t get that. Instead, he got told it might happen in the month of May. Maybe.
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Auckland Airport was asked by the government to have systems in place by August 17 to separate travellers from a potential Pacific bubble and those requiring Covid-19 quarantine.
The airport met the deadline with time to spare, releasing a statement alongside airports in Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown on August 3 saying it had detailed plans to safely separate “Pacific bubble” travellers from those arriving from places with community transmission.
Auckland Airport s manager of aeronautical and market development Mick Cottrell appeared alongside representatives from the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce and Fiji Investment in a Zoom webinar today organised by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs