Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tries her hand at Japanese calligraphy.
It says Kiwifruit.
Jason Walls
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Jason Walls
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Newstalk ZB’s Political Editor based in the Press Gallery
- Breaking: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Cabinet has agreed to move to alert level three and moved up to level four in 48 hours. ‘The situation here is moving at pace, as so must we.’
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern briefly ducked out of the press pack’s eyeline on her way to the House this afternoon. While we were all trying to work out who had an exclusive with the PM, a passing Labour MP told us that Ardern was, in fact, ‘petting a dog’.
- Green MP @_chloeswarbrick was heckled by a National MP during her speech on the Zero Carbon Bill. She fired back with "okay boomer" but the captions on Parliament TV clearly have not yet got the memo on millennial slang:
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern disagrees with Judith Collins’ tweet that under the new hate speech law, calling someone a ‘Karen’ will become illegal. ‘That is absolutely incorrect and I apologise - that means these laws will not protect that member [Collins] from such a claim.’
00:00 - I’ll plant a tree for every like this tweet gets. What could go wrong.
- Breaking: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to move a motion to declare a climate change emergency next week. As it's a Government motion, it's highly likely to pass when it's debated on Tuesday. When asked for her reaction, Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick told the Herald: 'Yeah boi'.
- 1000 likes and I’ll wear one of these bad boys to the next post-Cabinet press conference.
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's been given an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She used her speech to rally against disinformation, and called on social media giants to limit its spread by 'recognising their power and to acting on it'.
- Say what you want about the Daily Mail… but by God, can they write a headline.
