When she dropped into the VICE offices, we wanted to know more about her policies, her past, and her motivation.
“For me,” Ardern says, “getting into politics was all about finding the biggest way that I could make a difference. So when I was quite young I was motivated by wanting to, particularly, make changes for kids and child well-being… Eventually, I figured out politics was the way that you changed those big structural issues.”
Some of the biggest challenges, she tells VICE, include climate change, the unaffordability of housing, and the price of education. They are all issues that she and her party, she says, can only tackle from the top. “There is no point going through nine years of opposition politics, and the intensity of a campaign, unless you are absolutely committed to taking that top job. All the things I’ve ever been driven by in politics, we’re only going to achieve if we’re in a position of power.”
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