Showing posts with label Chris Hipkins' state of the nation speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Hipkins' state of the nation speech. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Ani O'Brien: Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, smaller, safer
Labels: Ani O'Brien, Chris Hipkins' state of the nation speechI went to the Labour Party State of the Nation
Today I found myself somewhere I have not been for sometime… A Labour Party event. I used to be a Labour Party member and in fact they still send me auto-emails asking me to renew. Before that even, I was a Greens member, but we were all naive and high once. In 2020, for the first time I cast my vote for the centre-right after being effectively excommunicated from polite progressive society over my insistence that humans cannot change sex and gender ideology activism was becoming a problem.
That political journey left me politically homeless for a while until I learned that politics is about tradeoffs. I needed to pick a side to work with and the centre-right was willing to at least talk about women’s rights, the left were not.
Kerre Woodham: Chris Hipkins' underwhelming State of the Nation speech
Labels: Chris Hipkins' state of the nation speech, Kerre WoodhamCredit to those 120 business people who went along to hear Chris Hipkins' State of the Nation address yesterday, hosted by the Auckland Business Chamber. Credit to those few people who watched it live, like my colleague Mike Hosking. My word, it was dull. And that is not me being a lickspittle mouthpiece for the Tory overlords. Have a listen to this:
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