[zeb88]

About time, given that almost a million kiwis live in Australia. The labour government, which has failed on every important measure (such as housing, child poverty, mental health, vaccination rollout, public transport, transparency etc.) has been unfairly resistant to it and they are only doing it because of opposition pressure.

[shawabawa3]

Speaking as someone from a country outside NZ, your government has succeeded on by far the _most_ important measure: They have eliminated covid 19

Most of the rest of the world are still in some form of lockdown and have been on and off for over a year

[tazjin]

> by far the _most_ important measure

Yes, we are very privileged to live in a time where there is literally no other problem in the world that even comes close.

Sorry for the snark, but this attitude is so incredibly ... Western. It really grinds my gears that so many people have collectively decided that all other forms of suffering and damage are irrelevant as long as we come closer to this one single objective.

> Most of the rest of the world are still in some form of lockdown

Most of the rest of the "first world".

[zeb88]

How so? Covid still exists and there most likely are many undetected cases. Don't buy the marketing propaganda from politicians who have an implied interest in propagating such idioms.

[lemming]

> such as housing, child poverty, mental health, vaccination rollout, public transport, transparency etc.

I'm as critical of our current government as the next guy (probably more), but it's also fair to say that every previous government in the past few decades has also failed on all these fronts (except COVID vaccine rollout, of course, but there's no reason to think that e.g. National would have done any better there).

[zeb88]

I am labour voter myself so have only stated objective truth because and I don't have any interest in relativism.

[lemming]

Me neither, just pointing out that these are basically entrenched systemic issues in NZ at this point - failing at them is nothing new.

[zeb88]

Your comment is bordering on fatalism.

[mdoms]

It really is not possible to discuss legitimate failures of this labour government without one of you "9 long years" losers showing up. Give it a rest, it's been 4 long years already.

[zeb88]

Couldn't agree more. There is a level of cultism around this prime minister and government that it's bordering on populism.

[lemming]

If you had actually read my comment, you would have seen that I wrote every previous government in the past few decades, and also that I'm also critical of our current government.

[roca]

It is far too early to declare vaccination rollout a failure. Housing too ... the new policies are, politically speaking, very bold and we'll have to wait a while to see how much effect they have.