Five priorities for the new government

Five priorities for the new government
Pattrick Smellie
With a new Cabinet installed here and the election of a new president in the United States, the wall-to-wall obsession with electoral politics of recent months will start to be replaced by a return to the actual business of governing.In one of the most substantive speeches she’s made for many months, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last Thursday laid out not only what her newly minted administration’s first priorities would be, but the way she would pursue them.The speech is worth reading for an insight into what motivates the cautiou...

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