Winston Peters for Governor General? No thanks, says PM Jacinda Ardern
5 Feb, 2021 08:01 PM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has firmly ruled out the prospect of NZ First leader Winston Peters – or any other former politician as the next Governor General.
Asked about the role at Waitangi this morning and whether she thought Peters would be a contender, Ardern said she did not intend to appoint a former politician to the role after Dame Patsy Reddy s term ends in September.
Ardern said she had not caught up with her former deputy Prime Minister and coalition partner on her visit up north.
Colin James: Beyond Jacinda, a generation hungry for change
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By: Colin James
Will the transformation promised by Jacinda Ardern in her first term as PM be delivered or will a new generation force change as the boomers once did? An essay by Colin James. To talk about what lies beyond Jacinda is not to say the Prime Minister is transitory. Jacinda Ardern has demonstrated the requisite skills and resilience to see through this second term and, if she wants, have a fair shot at a third term.
But her Government needs to be seen in a wider and longer context. The wider context is a rapidly changing, turbulent and seriously challenging external world. The longer context is a decade ahead of climate, ecosystem and new-technology forces that will require major policy change and during which will rise a generation with different ideas of how that policy should change. Do Ardern and her X- and Y-generation contemporaries have the mentality to make
Ibrox Disaster: World joined city in mourning greatest of tragedies IT WAS just too late to make the final edition before the newspaper went to press. The last Evening Times of the day on January 2, 1971 was full of praise for the Old Firm players who had made that afternoon’s derby such a thrilling affair. “Two goals come in last 90 seconds!” said the headline on the sports pages, paying tribute to scorers Jimmy Johnstone and Colin Stein. Only a short, devastating sentence on the back page revealed that in fact, this game had ended in catastrophe. ‘Fans Die As Ibrox Barrier Collapses’, said the small headline, at the bottom of the page in the space reserved for breaking news in the days before websites and social media.
New Zealand troops loading an L5 howitzer into an M113 armoured personnel carrier in Vietnam.
From Ian McGibbon, New Zealand s Vietnam War (2010) p95:
The L5 howitzer, [US Brigadier General Ellis W.] Williamson noted soon after the New Zealanders arrived appears to be an ideal gun for this war . His enthusiasm derived from the weapon s portability. Weighing only 1300 kilograms, it was light enough to be carried by helicopter and compact enough to fit into the M113 armoured personnel carrier (APC). NZ Gov.
New Zealand’s Vietnam War: SAS deployment – Terry Culley: the Battles
December 22, 2020