Lockdown Tsar Chris Hipkins to Become Next New Zealand Prime Minister
Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest to replace Jacinda Ardern.

Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest to replace Jacinda Ardern.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times celebrated radical leftist New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a “politician who truly understands international politics” on Thursday, following her announcement she would resign next month.
Authoritarian socialist Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday she would step down from the prime ministership of New Zealand next month — a position she acquired in a controversial election and used to make the country crueler, less safe, and less free.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who became infamous for her lockdown policies, said that she will resign on February 7th.
The plan by New Zealand’s left-wing government to tax livestock farts plus burps to spare the environment from emissions of methane and nitrous oxide is still angering the nation’s farmers who see it as a war on their livelihoods.
The Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled on Monday that the current voting age of 18 is discriminatory, because New Zealanders are considered adults in various other respects at the age of 16.
New Zealand’s arts council ended funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, saying it was “located within a canon of imperialism.”
The UK Guardian on Monday found ominous portents for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s far-left Labor party in the latest round of local elections, which looked like a grassroots taxpayer revolt against the once-popular PM and her authoritarian policies – or a “lurch to the right in most major centers,” as the Guardian put it.
New Zealand’s left-wing government on Tuesday proposed taxing the gasses farm animals create from burping and peeing as part of a plan to reset agricultural production and “tackle climate change.”
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called for more “collective” action in her address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, especially on the issues of climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, pandemic response, and opposing wars of aggression like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Some 2,000 protesters assembled outside the New Zealand Parliament building in Wellington on Tuesday to protest their government’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, particularly its vaccine mandates.
The New Zealand Herald, the former British colony’s newspaper of record and most-circulated daily, appeared keen to blame the disaster on climate change — despite explicitly stating that “this specific weather event had not been analysed regarding the influence of climate change”.
New Zealand, often held up as the best example outside China of an authoritarian government controlling the spread of Chinese coronavirus with harsh lockdowns, is currently experiencing its worst coronavirus death rates of the entire pandemic.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday made her first visit to the U.K. since both countries signed a free trade agreement.
The deadly synthetic opioid known as fentanyl is hitting New Zealand hard, and drug abuse experts say the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was completely unprepared for its arrival.
President Joe Biden warmly welcomed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to the White House on Tuesday, expressing his interest in her views on gun control and online censorship in her country.
President Joe Biden welcomed socialist New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to the White House on Tuesday to discuss economic ties, gun control, and “space exploration” — but not, reports indicated, Ardern’s decision to use Chinese coronavirus measures to delay the 2020 New Zealand election.
Visiting New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is ready to talk gun control Tuesday if it comes up when she meets President Joe Biden, with the left-wing leader “open to sharing” her country’s experience.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be hosted at the White House on Tuesday, which will after she delivered a gun control speech.
Left-wing New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received a rapturous response Thursday at Harvard University as she outlined her government’s commitment to strict gun control laws, linking them to the defense of democracy.
Following two years of lockdown measures, New Zealand will finally lift its coronavirus border restrictions in July, said PM Jacinda Ardern.
The administration of left-wing New Zealand President Jacinda Ardern acted “unlawfully” last year when it closed the nation’s borders to its own citizens to curb transmission of the Chinese coronavirus, the High Court of Wellington ruled on Wednesday.
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was raised at the beginning of the First War War to do battle against all the King’s enemies. It first saw mass action and casualties in the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign that unfolded in what is now Turkey.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Radio New Zealand (RNZ) on Monday her government was “gravely” concerned by the Solomon Islands’ recent confirmation it signed a security pact with China.
NZ’s government announced that it is set to shelve most of its remaining coronavirus restrictions on the 4th of April.
New Zealand recorded its highest single-day tally of new Chinese coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a development that seemed to cast doubt on the efficacy of the nation’s strict pandemic measures.
Violence erupted on the streets of the New Zealand capital Wellington across Tuesday as police moved to disperse protesters challenging the country’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday her left-wing Labour government won’t lift coronavirus restrictions until they are “well beyond” the peak of the virus, speaking even as anti-mandate protest numbers continue to swell in the capital.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will fly to Boston and personally address Harvard’s graduates in May – a full two months before her hermit kingdom opens its borders again to the world.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday blamed mysterious “imported” forces for the protests against her vaccine mandates that dominate the national capital.
New Zealand’s freedom convoy remains in place despite police attempting to disperse them by blasting protestors with the ‘Macarena’.
An estimated 1,500 pro-freedom demonstrators continued to rally outside the New Zealand Parliament on Friday in defiance of the police and the government. They gathered in what was described as a carnival atmosphere just 24-hours after some 120 of their number were arrested and removed.
New Zealand police arrested 120 people who were protesting against coronavirus restrictions Thursday outside the national parliament.
New Zealand truck protest supporters on Tuesday refused to leave and camped overnight inside the national parliament’s grounds in Wellington – picketing the parliament again Wednesday.
Hordes of vehicles blocked streets around New Zealand’s Parliament on Tuesday, in a protest mirroring others building around the world demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday that her country would begin reopening its borders at the end of February, capping an embarrassing week in which a pregnant Kiwi journalist stranded outside the country turned to the Taliban for assistance.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said she is self-isolating after coming into close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus.
Far-left New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern joked during a recent broadcast that Tinder “liaisons” of up to 25 people could continue despite the nation’s authoritarian coronavirus restrictions, the fact-checking website Polygraph confirmed on Tuesday.
The U.K. Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that Australia may decide to keep politicians from attending the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics but brand it an effort to contain the Chinese coronavirus, not a statement against the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses.
Chancellor Angela Merkel told the citizens of Germany that it is their “duty” to get vaccinated and compared the coronavirus pandemic to the alleged climate crisis.