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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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JACINDA ARDERN:
What are you gonna do
at school today?
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NEVE ARDERN GAYFORD:
Oh, I don't know.
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JACINDA:
Do you think they'll give you
eclipse glasses?
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- NEVE: Oh, yeah. They told me.
- JACINDA: Yeah, right.
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- (ENGINE HALTING)
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Put on your seatbelt.
Keep your hands to yourself.
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- NEVE: Okay, bye.
- JACINDA: Okay, bye. Love you.
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♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
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JACINDA: You'll be
our future decision makers,
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and leaders,
and it must be quite daunting
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looking out at the challenges
that are in front of us.
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There's so much change
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that we want the world
to be simple again.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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JACINDA: And part
of that oversimplification
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is that we're much more inclined
to look at one another
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in binary ways.
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Good, evil.
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Bad, right.
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(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
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It's meant that we've got
a hyper-partisanship now
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that I think
can be really damaging.
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It means
we don't work together as much.
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It means we don't listen
and engage
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in respectful debate
that we need.
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And if we are to get back
to doing all of those things,
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because we won't solve
the climate crisis unless we do,
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we won't solve the conflict
in the Middle East unless we do,
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we have to re-humanize
one another again.
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♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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INTERVIEWER: (OVER RECORDER)
Recording identification,
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this is an interview
for the Political Diary Project.
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It's an interview
with Jacinda Ardern,
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who's the deputy leader
of the Labour Party.
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It's being recorded
on Monday 28th August, 2017.
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(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
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INTERVIEWER: Are you worried?
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I mean, how long is it
until the election?
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- Two months, let's say.
- JACINDA: (OVER RECORDER) Yeah.
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Yep.
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- (SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
- ♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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- Labour is ready to win in 2017.
- (CROWD CHEERING)
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REPORTER 1:
Labour's feeling the pressure
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just eight weeks out
from the election.
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Two poll results in two days
both have the party
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on less than the 25 percent
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Labour got
at the last election...
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REPORTER 2:
All eyes have now turned
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to the party's deputy leader,
Jacinda Ardern.
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ANDREW LITTLE:
This is your moment, Jacinda,
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step up to the plate,
or watch your party die.
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INTERVIEWER:
There's a lot of talk about
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you being the next leader
of the Labour Party,
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the next female prime minister.
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- Do you want to be that person?
- JACINDA: No.
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And I absolutely support
Andrew Little
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to do that job,
as opposed to me.
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- INTERVIEWER:
But everyone says it--
- Yes, but I mean it.
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(FAINT CHATTER)
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Good morning, everybody.
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I've just confirmed
to the Labour caucus
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that I will step aside as leader
of the Labour Party.
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There's no question
that the poll results
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that came out last week
were disturbing,
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and very, very disappointing.
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- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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REPORTER: Moving at
uncharacteristically high speed,
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Labour completely changed
its leadership team this morning
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following three disastrous
political polls.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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Following Andrew's announcement
this morning,
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I was nominated to be leader
of the Labour Party.
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This team is about to run
the campaign of our lives.
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(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
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JACINDA:
My whole journey in politics
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has been a battle
with two sides of myself.
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The one that says, "You can't,"
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and then the one that says,
"But you have to."
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JACINDA: (RECORDING)
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♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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JACINDA: I was 14 years old
when someone first used
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the term, "imposter syndrome."
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And it was
just like something clicked.
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Suddenly, I had words
to describe how I'd felt
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for every speech competition
I did,
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or any challenge
where I just had
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a bit of a seed of doubt
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and a fear
that something might expose
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that I shouldn't be there.
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When I stood down there
for that press conference,
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I waited for someone
to just stand up,
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and say that outright.
"Why you?"
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And they did.
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I'm happy to take questions.
I'm sure there are many.
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(REPORTERS CLAMORING)
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REPORTER 1:
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Yes, I am, Barry,
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and my team
would not have selected me
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if they didn't
believe that also.
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REPORTER 2:
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Yes. Would you like to tell me
why you don't think I can?
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REPORTER 3:
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Oh, look, look, everyone knows
that I've just accepted,
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with short notice,
the worst job in politics.
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♪ (DARING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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JACINDA: I had been
in opposition for nine years.
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I had held
the justice portfolio,
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the social development
portfolio.
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I'd held corrections,
child protection,
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small business, employment.
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So, I had some experience
behind me.
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(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
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Did I come in with this view
that I needed
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to particularly bring
my feminist leadership approach?
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No, because I didn't actually
anticipate being a leader.
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It was a little bit of a shock
to me seven weeks out
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from a general election
in New Zealand.
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There was no time
for me to redesign myself
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in any particular way.
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No one could come to me,
and say,
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"Well, we've polled,
and focus-grouped,
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and this is how you need
to present yourself
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if you're going
to win the election."
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- There was none of that.
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JACINDA: That meant
I could only be myself.
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I remember distinctly
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when I took over
as leader being told,
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"Your job is just to save
the furniture."
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No one thought it was plausible
that we could win.
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- ♪ (THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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SUPPORTER: Let's do this!
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JACINDA: Are you with me?
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- CROWD: Yeah!
- Let's do this!
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(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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JACINDA: We will remain
relentlessly positive
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because I do believe
optimism and hope
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is at our heart.
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It is part of who we are
as New Zealanders.
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On election night,
the outcome wasn't clear.
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- (CROWD CHEERING)
- REPORTER: National has won
46 percent of the vote,
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and a left-leaning coalition
of Labour,
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- and the Greens, has 42 percent.
- (REPORTERS CLAMORING)
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REPORTER:
Both sides need Winston Peters
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to get to a majority.
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The anti-immigration populist
holds all the cards
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and will decide New Zealand's
next prime minister.
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INTERVIEWER:
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I do not want to be seen
to have made any compromise
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to get into government
that involves immigration.
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- INTERVIEWER: No.
I one hundred percent support--
- That's my problem.
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I have a real strong view
on this.
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(VOICE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER PHONE)
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JACINDA: Mm.
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Mm.
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Of course they wanna put us
in a position to govern.
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I think that we're
the best opportunity
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to make the change
that New Zealanders need.
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♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
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In two and a half hours
possibly,
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I'll know whether or not
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I've successfully got Labour
into government.
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I have waves
of incredible anxiety.
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Not about losing,
but about winning.
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...and some fine weather.
We've got all the details
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coming up,
right now at six o'clock.
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♪ (THEME MUSIC
PLAYING OVER TV) ♪
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REPORTER: (OVER TV)
Speculation mounting
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that Winston Peters
is about to announce
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who'll form the next government.
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(EXHALES)
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WINSTON PETERS: (OVER TV)
We had a choice to make,
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whether it was
either with National or Labour,
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for a modified status quo,
all for change.
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That's why in the end we chose
a coalition government
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of New Zealand First
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with the New Zealand
Labour Party.
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- (GROUP CHEERING)
- ♪ ("YOUNG BLOOD" BY THE NAKED
AND FAMOUS PLAYING) ♪
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♪ The bittersweet
Between my teeth ♪
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♪ Trying to find
The in-between ♪
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- ♪ Fall back
In love eventually ♪
- (GROUP CHEERING)
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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! ♪
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JACINDA:
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- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
- ♪ (DREAMY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
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JACINDA:
It would be a bit overwhelming
if I processed it properly
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so instead, I just...
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do all the things
that need to get done.
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CLARKE GAYFORD:
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CLARKE:
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I'm not even 40.
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You're not gonna force me
to process this this morning.
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I don't have time.
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CLARKE:
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(LAUGHS)
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I'm not doing this right now.
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(BOTH CHUCKLE)
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Ms. Ardern, you have assured me
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that you are able
to form a government
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that can command the confidence
of the House of Representatives.
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I now ask you to confirm
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that you can form
such a government.
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Yes, Your Excellency.
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DAME PATSY REDDY: In that case,
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I will proceed
with your appointment
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- as Prime Minister.
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That gives effect
to your appointment
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as Prime Minister.
Congratulations, Ms. Ardern.
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♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
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Thank you.
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(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
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♪ (MUSIC TURNS UPLIFTING) ♪
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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JACINDA: Every time
I got on a plane,
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I would look out a window,
and I would think,
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"Look at that
beautiful landscape.
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From that mountain
to that river,
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that is my responsibility."
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(RAILWAY TRACKS RATTLING)
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♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
CONTINUES) ♪
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JACINDA: And I didn't sit
in anything for too long
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for that period of time.
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And now, I'm writing about it,
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and I've got no choice
but to sit in it.
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INTERVIEWER: (OVER RECORDER)
Okay, so we're recording now.
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This is interview number one,
file one.
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JACINDA: Back in 2017,
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I got a call
from some archivists
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at the Turnbull Library saying,
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"We've been interviewing
various people in politics."
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INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
When you were first asked
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whether you'd take part
in this diary project,
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what made you say yes?
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JACINDA: (RECORDING)
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I didn't want him to resign.
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INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
Think about what you wanna say.
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JACINDA: (RECORDING)
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You know, as someone
who loves history,
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I thought one day
I'm sure I'd really like
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to look back on this.
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Having those recordings
really take me back to a moment
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in a way that I don't imagine
many other things could.
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JACINDA:
For that first period of time,
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I felt the need
to demonstrate that
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I was the right person
for the job,
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that I just had to prove myself.
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JACINDA: Political cycles
in New Zealand,
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they're so short.
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I have three years
to do as much as we can,
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so there's just no time.
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(MOUSE CLICKING)
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JACINDA: Climate change
is the greatest challenge
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facing this generation.
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We had a significant
100-day plan.
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Today, we announced
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that we will
no longer be granting
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any new off-shore oil and gas
exploration permits.
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I'm on record as having stated
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that child poverty
and child poverty reduction
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is one of the reasons
that I was motivated
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to get into politics,
and ultimately, into this House.
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Putting in renters' rights,
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extending paid parental leave,
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the first year
of university free,
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mental health.
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These are going to be
our priorities.
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All of that
in a hundred days, and more.
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But in the back of my mind,
I thought,
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"How am I gonna do this
with a baby?"
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♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
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(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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JACINDA: It's very jarring
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turning your pregnancy
into a press statement.
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CLARKE:
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Um, I think the people
who don't like me
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will be a bit harsh. (CHUCKLES)
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I'm a bit anxious about it,
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but I can't hide it forever,
can I?
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- (CHUCKLES)
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Oh, look!
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- (LAUGHS)
- (CROWD LAUGHING)
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Well, this is--
Well, this is normal.
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JACINDA: Welcome, everyone,
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for a somewhat
unusual announcement.
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Um, Clarke and I
are really excited to share.
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In June, we're looking forward
to welcoming our first child.
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REPORTER:
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- Clarke? (LAUGHS)
- (CROWD LAUGHING)
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Wow! I like the idea
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that we're doing
everything in reverse.
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We bought a house together,
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then we're having a baby,
and we'll see.
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- (CROWD LAUGHING)
- (CHUCKLES)
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♪ (SINGING TO THE TUNE
OF "ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA") ♪
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♪ ...Ardern ♪
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REPORTER:
Prime Minister of New Zealand,
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and Mr. Clarke Gayford.
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JACINDA: Your Majesty,
it is my great honor
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to offer a toast
to the Commonwealth.
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♪ (CHOIR CONTINUES SINGING) ♪
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JACINDA: Our Commonwealth
is uniquely placed to offer
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a strong voice
on the global stage
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at a time
of change and uncertainty.
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RADIO HOST 1: 0800-80,
try to keep those calls
coming through this.
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CALLER 1:
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RADIO HOST 1:
Jeremy Marcus, hello.
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CALLER 2:
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RADIO HOST 1: Yes, although
I can't think of any jobs
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that women with young children
have not managed to do.
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CALLER 2:
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- (KIDS CHEERING)
- RADIO HOST 2: 0800-801080
is the number to call.
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Clive says,
"I think it's a disgrace.
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Her choice to be Prime Minister
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should take priority
over motherhood.
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And no, you can't do both jobs,
and do both justice."
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♪ (SINGING CONCLUDES) ♪
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- (CHUCKLES)
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- See? "Belly bump biscuits."
- CLARKE: Yeah, well...
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(CLARKE CHUCKLES)
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CLARKE: (CHUCKLING)
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HEALTH CARE ADVISOR:
And as you push and push,
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and then
with the next contraction,
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and we encourage
the head to come down
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to pop the shoulder free
of here.
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And the baby will just slip out
very easily,
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and up onto you.
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Up, and it just comes up here.
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CLARKE:
Can you rest things on...
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♪ (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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- Oh, yeah.
- CLARKE:
...while you're sitting down?
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I've been able to do that
for ages.
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(CLARKE LAUGHS)
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- (LAUGHS)
- (CLARKE LAUGHS)
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CLARKE:
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(JACINDA LAUGHS)
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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- (NEVE CRYING)
- JACINDA: Oh, good.
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Oh, good.
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(JACINDA SPEAKING SOFTY)
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Oh!
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(GASPS)
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Oh! She's gorgeous.
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(WHISPERING)
I figured I had to get her out
so that you could hold her.
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- We think we...
- LAURELL ARDERN:
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- LAURELL:
- Mm-hmm.
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Oh!
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- That's...
- JACINDA: That's what mum says
when she's processing.
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- "Neve."
- Yeah.
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- Yeah, it is.
- Oh!
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"Leith"?
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JACINDA:
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Oh, lovely. Lovely!
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♪ (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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JACINDA: (RECORDING)
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INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING) Mm-hmm.
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JACINDA:
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- (CHUCKLES)
- INTERVIEWER: Aw.
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"Working & Breastfeeding
Made Simple."
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But I think anything
that is simple
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doesn't require 300...
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- 369 pages of explanation.
- (CLARKE LAUGHS)
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- (NEVE COOS)
- ♪ (SERENE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
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JACINDA:
I'm determined to breastfeed...
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'cause otherwise,
there's no reason
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to have her at work.
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
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JACINDA: Didn't bring
the muffins that the...
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- neighbor made for us.
- CLARKE: Ah.
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(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
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Thank you.
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- BYSTANDER: Morning!
- JACINDA AND CLARKE: Morning!
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- JACINDA: How are you?
- Good, thank you.
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(CHUCKLES)
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- Leroy!
- LEROY: Hey!
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- JACINDA: How are you?
- I'm very well.
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JACINDA: Aw!
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- Good, nice to see you.
- (BOTH KISS)
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- Welcome back. (CHUCKLES)
- Thanks!
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- Say hello to Uncle Chris.
- Oh!
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Okay.
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- Okay.
- See you guys later.
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- Okay, team.
- We missed you.
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Thank you, thank you.
I missed you.
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- (LAUGHS) I missed you.
- (GROUP LAUGHS)
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I did miss you guys.
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
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STAFF MEMBER: There's confidence
in the housing market
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coming off
of international developments.
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Yep. (KISSES)
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CLARKE: Yep.
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♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
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(NEVE FUSSES)
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CLARKE:
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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SPOKESPERSON: We'd been hearing
a few mean-minded,
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mingy individuals
carrying on about
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whether she had the right
to have a baby,
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and run the country
at the same time.
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Wouldn't it be lovely
if somehow...
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Jacinda had a cloak
of her own...
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to keep her warm...
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to protect her back...
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to guard her
from the slings and arrows
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of outrageous commentators.
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Other women saying...
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to our gorgeous
prime minister...
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"Don't worry. Stand tall.
We have your back."
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♪ (MUSIC TURNS PENSIVE,
INTENSIFIES) ♪
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- (SIRENS WAILING)
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
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(CARS HONKING)
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(SIRENS CONTINUE WAILING)
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DONALD TRUMP: Today, I stand
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before the United Nations
General Assembly
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to share the extraordinary
progress we've made.
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In less than two years,
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my administration
has accomplished more than
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almost any administration
in the history of our country.
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- America is... So true.
- (ASSEMBLY LAUGHING)
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I didn't expect that reaction,
but that's okay.
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(ASSEMBLY LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
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TRUMP: America is governed
by Americans.
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We reject the ideology
of globalism.
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Our position has been
we see ourselves
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as members
of an international community.
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REPORTER 1:
Doesn't it concern you
that diplomatically
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it may cause
a bit of a rift with Washington?
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No, I think it's important
that we always maintain
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an independent
foreign policy line.
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We need to speak
to New Zealand values,
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regardless of what
any other world leader
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tends to think,
or their position.
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REPORTER 1:
Do you like Donald Trump?
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Oh, look,
I don't know Donald Trump.
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I know the President
of the United States.
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And we are united by the fact
that each of our countries
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has experienced
some jarring effects
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of globalization.
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We're just choosing
to respond differently.
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Do you like the President
of the United States?
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JACINDA: Uh, look,
it's an irrelevant question.
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REPORTER 2: No, it's not really.
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Popularity aside,
do you like the current US--
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JACINDA: It actually is.
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I'm here
to represent New Zealand.
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This isn't a popularity contest.
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(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
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♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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REPORTER 1: You've heard of
Take Your kids to Work Day,
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but a world leader
made a statement
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when she brought her baby
to the United Nations.
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REPORTER 2:
That's right, a baby.
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Ardern is
the second world leader
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to give birth in office,
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and now, the first
to bring her baby to the UN.
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- ♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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- ANNOUNCER: The Prime Minister
of the Kingdom of Morocco.
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)
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ANNOUNCER: The Prime Minister
of New Zealand.
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The Prime Minister
of the Kingdom of Norway.
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JACINDA: It's clear
that a big focus
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for the Secretary-General
is the issue of climate change.
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And in that regard,
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he acknowledged the role
that New Zealand is playing,
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- and will continue to play.
- REPORTER: How's Neve?
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Well. Probably more well-rested
than I am.
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All right. Thanks, everyone.
Thank you.
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REPORTER 1:
It does really feel like
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all eyes are on Jacinda Ardern.
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She has kind of a celebrity
circuit of sorts here.
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REPORTER 2: Big week, of course,
for the Prime Minister.
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She's very much in New York.
She's very much going to be
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like the new squeezy toy
in the toy shop.
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They're all gonna want
to touch her and meet her,
485
00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:48,838
and shake hands,
and, "Oh, where's the baby?"
486
00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:50,674
There's the novelty factor.
487
00:25:50,757 --> 00:25:54,803
Did you ever imagine
that the perfectly normal act
488
00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:56,388
of a woman giving birth
489
00:25:56,471 --> 00:26:00,475
would be so incredibly viral
all over the world,
490
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,644
and everybody just wants
to talk to you about that?
491
00:26:02,686 --> 00:26:05,647
JACINDA: No, no,
but I have to accept that
492
00:26:05,689 --> 00:26:08,692
when it comes to world leaders,
it was rare.
493
00:26:08,775 --> 00:26:12,237
INTERVIEWER: I've been amazed
by some of the incredible sexism
494
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,906
that you've received
from your own media at home
495
00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:16,658
- about this issue.
- JACINDA: Hmm.
496
00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:18,910
INTERVIEWER: Oh,
can a mother be prime minister?
497
00:26:18,994 --> 00:26:21,037
Can a pregnant woman do the job?
498
00:26:21,121 --> 00:26:23,665
Can a new mother
talk about climate
499
00:26:23,748 --> 00:26:25,584
and refugees and trade,
500
00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:27,544
and all the things
that you're talking about?
501
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:31,131
JACINDA:
502
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:40,849
- (CRIES)
- Aw!
503
00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:42,100
CLARKE: Aw, don't...
504
00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:48,231
She is just not having it
at the moment.
505
00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:50,817
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
506
00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:53,862
CLARKE: Come here.
507
00:26:53,903 --> 00:26:55,363
Then it'll come from a bottle.
508
00:26:57,532 --> 00:26:58,867
(JACINDA SIGHS, MUMBLES)
509
00:27:00,827 --> 00:27:01,953
We're fussy.
510
00:27:02,037 --> 00:27:04,497
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
511
00:27:04,831 --> 00:27:07,042
JACINDA:
512
00:27:09,419 --> 00:27:10,879
- (SIRENS WAILING)
- JACINDA:
513
00:27:22,265 --> 00:27:24,100
(SHUSHES)
514
00:27:30,899 --> 00:27:34,319
(TRAFFIC RUMBLING, HONKING)
515
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,075
- (BLOW DRYER WHIRRING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
516
00:27:40,158 --> 00:27:41,910
STEPHEN COLBERT: I understand
you were on the floor
517
00:27:41,951 --> 00:27:43,036
of the General Assembly.
518
00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,496
You were seated
at the General Assembly
519
00:27:44,579 --> 00:27:45,622
when Donald Trump
gave his address.
520
00:27:45,705 --> 00:27:46,748
JACINDA: I was.
521
00:27:46,831 --> 00:27:49,459
He says that
people weren't laughing at him,
522
00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:51,127
they were laughing with him.
523
00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:52,671
What-- what...
524
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:54,589
- did you experience...
- (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
525
00:27:54,631 --> 00:27:56,758
...as someone in the room?
526
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,760
Are you trying to create
a diplomatic incident
527
00:27:58,802 --> 00:28:00,428
- here right now? (LAUGHS)
- (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
528
00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:03,223
- Maybe I'm gonna
diffuse one right now.
- JACINDA: Yeah. (LAUGHS)
529
00:28:03,264 --> 00:28:04,766
STEPHEN: So, there was
a little laugh,
530
00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:05,975
and then there was
a bigger laugh.
531
00:28:06,059 --> 00:28:07,602
So, there was a little laugh,
532
00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,313
and he said,
"I didn't expect that response,"
533
00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:12,107
and then there was
a bigger laugh.
534
00:28:12,190 --> 00:28:14,484
- Then people laughed with him.
- (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
535
00:28:14,567 --> 00:28:16,111
- Second... The second time.
- On the second one.
536
00:28:16,152 --> 00:28:17,654
The second one,
people were laughing with him.
537
00:28:17,737 --> 00:28:18,947
- JACINDA: Yes. That is true.
- Okay.
538
00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:21,449
- That was
very diplomatically stated.
- This is my testimony.
539
00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:22,992
- Very nice.
- (LAUGHS)
540
00:28:23,076 --> 00:28:25,370
No war between the United states
and New Zealand then?
541
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:27,122
- No, peace loving nation.
- But the first laugh?
542
00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:28,456
The first laugh?
543
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:34,129
First laugh was
a spontaneous murmur amongst...
544
00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:35,296
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
545
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:36,965
- It was spontaneous.
- ...some people.
546
00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:40,135
- Spontaneous among the people,
with each other.
- Yes. But I'm a...
547
00:28:40,176 --> 00:28:42,137
- Amongst themselves.
- Amongst themselves.
548
00:28:42,178 --> 00:28:43,513
- Yes. (CHUCKLES)
- (AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
549
00:28:43,596 --> 00:28:46,182
- And you joined in?
- No, I observed.
550
00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:50,311
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
551
00:28:50,353 --> 00:28:52,605
(TRAFFIC RUMBLING, HONKING)
552
00:28:53,857 --> 00:28:58,027
JACINDA: I am an incredibly
proud New Zealander.
553
00:28:59,070 --> 00:29:01,990
Much of that pride
has come from being
554
00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:06,494
a strong and active member
of our international community.
555
00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:09,330
- ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- JACINDA: We are not isolated.
556
00:29:09,372 --> 00:29:13,710
Governments do have obligations
to their people and each other,
557
00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:17,088
and our actions
have a global effect.
558
00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:20,842
Mr. Speaker, I cannot pinpoint
559
00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:23,887
when exactly my interest
in politics began,
560
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:25,472
but I know it began young.
561
00:29:27,557 --> 00:29:29,184
This is my old street.
562
00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:31,728
We moved here
when I was pretty young.
563
00:29:35,231 --> 00:29:37,984
My memories of that place
are vivid.
564
00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:40,779
I knew that a lot of people
had lost their jobs,
565
00:29:40,862 --> 00:29:42,864
but I didn't understand
that it was down
566
00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:45,867
to the privatization
of the forestry industry,
567
00:29:45,909 --> 00:29:49,370
and the complete lack
of central government support.
568
00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:52,290
Even though I was really young,
569
00:29:52,373 --> 00:29:54,709
I remember seeing
what that did to the town,
570
00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:57,921
the social costs
of unemployment.
571
00:29:58,004 --> 00:30:02,133
My passion for social justice
came from what I saw.
572
00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:04,719
My love of politics came
when I realized
573
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:07,639
that it was the key
to changing what I saw.
574
00:30:11,684 --> 00:30:17,899
Together, we must rebuild
and recommit to multilateralism.
575
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,277
If I could distill it down
into one concept
576
00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:23,404
that we are pursuing
in New Zealand,
577
00:30:23,446 --> 00:30:27,116
it is simple
and it is this, kindness.
578
00:30:28,284 --> 00:30:33,414
In the face of isolationism,
protectionism, racism,
579
00:30:33,498 --> 00:30:34,624
the simple concept
580
00:30:34,707 --> 00:30:37,168
of looking outwardly
and beyond ourselves,
581
00:30:37,252 --> 00:30:39,921
of kindness and collectivism,
582
00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:43,591
might just be as good
a starting point as any.
583
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:47,470
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
584
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:57,272
(SIRENS WAILING)
585
00:30:58,982 --> 00:31:01,359
REPORTER 1: It's chaos here
in Hagley Park, really.
586
00:31:01,442 --> 00:31:03,820
You can probably hear
the sirens going past me
587
00:31:03,903 --> 00:31:07,115
as ambulances rush
to and from the mosque.
588
00:31:07,156 --> 00:31:10,034
We haven't confirmed
the number of injuries,
589
00:31:10,118 --> 00:31:12,954
but I have spoken to a man,
a witness.
590
00:31:12,996 --> 00:31:14,497
He'd run from the mosque,
591
00:31:14,581 --> 00:31:16,833
climbing a fence
to get to safety.
592
00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:20,795
He told us that he had seen
four women lying on the floor
593
00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:22,463
of the mosque, covered in blood.
594
00:31:22,505 --> 00:31:24,299
REPORTER 2: We are breaking
into normal programming
595
00:31:24,340 --> 00:31:25,675
right now
for some disturbing news
596
00:31:25,758 --> 00:31:26,801
from Christchurch.
597
00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:29,137
There has been
a major shooting incident
598
00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:31,472
with reports of gunmen
firing near mosques
599
00:31:31,514 --> 00:31:33,349
in the center of the city.
600
00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:34,851
REPORTER 3:
There are unconfirmed reports
601
00:31:34,934 --> 00:31:38,646
as many as 27 people are dead,
including children.
602
00:31:38,688 --> 00:31:40,481
There were 500 people
in the mosque
603
00:31:40,523 --> 00:31:41,983
at the time of the shooting.
604
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:44,485
- (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
- ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
605
00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:46,988
INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
This is interview number 14,
606
00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:48,114
file one.
607
00:31:49,532 --> 00:31:51,034
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
All right, um... (SIGHS)
608
00:31:51,117 --> 00:31:53,411
Well, it's a week
since those horrible attacks
609
00:31:53,494 --> 00:31:54,704
in Christchurch.
610
00:31:55,830 --> 00:31:58,207
INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
How's it been for you this week?
611
00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:04,339
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
612
00:32:04,422 --> 00:32:08,676
Clearly what has happened here
is an extraordinary
613
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,388
and unprecedented
act of violence.
614
00:32:12,472 --> 00:32:15,516
Many of those who will have been
directly affected
615
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,687
by the shooting
may be migrants to New Zealand.
616
00:32:19,729 --> 00:32:22,440
They may even be refugees here.
617
00:32:22,523 --> 00:32:25,193
They have chosen to make
New Zealand their home,
618
00:32:25,234 --> 00:32:27,528
and it is their home.
619
00:32:27,570 --> 00:32:29,697
They are us.
620
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,741
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
621
00:32:42,001 --> 00:32:46,464
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
622
00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:50,760
JACINDA:
It is with extreme sadness
623
00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:55,556
that I tell you
that as at 7:00 p.m. tonight,
624
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,977
we believe that 40 people
have lost their lives.
625
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:02,313
It is clear that
this can now only be described
626
00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:04,440
as a terrorist attack.
627
00:33:04,524 --> 00:33:06,067
(SIRENS WAILING)
628
00:33:06,109 --> 00:33:09,404
We are a proud nation
of more than 200 ethnicities,
629
00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:11,906
160 languages,
630
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:15,827
and amongst that diversity,
we share common values,
631
00:33:15,910 --> 00:33:19,038
and the one that we place
the currency on right now,
632
00:33:19,706 --> 00:33:22,875
and tonight, is our compassion,
633
00:33:22,917 --> 00:33:25,086
and the support
for the community
634
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:28,589
of those directly affected
by this tragedy.
635
00:33:28,631 --> 00:33:32,927
And secondly, the strongest
possible condemnation
636
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,764
of the ideology
of the people who did this.
637
00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,308
You may have chosen us,
638
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:43,021
but we utterly reject
and condemn you.
639
00:33:43,104 --> 00:33:46,024
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
640
00:33:52,572 --> 00:33:53,948
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
641
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:04,167
JACINDA:
It was close to 24 hours
since the shooting,
642
00:34:04,250 --> 00:34:06,502
and bodies were still lying
in the mosques.
643
00:34:07,128 --> 00:34:08,212
And that, of course,
644
00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:10,381
was because the police
were doing their jobs.
645
00:34:11,966 --> 00:34:15,887
But for those who were members
of the Muslim community,
646
00:34:15,970 --> 00:34:18,473
their priority
was immediate burial.
647
00:34:18,514 --> 00:34:20,850
And so, people were
understandably distraught
648
00:34:20,933 --> 00:34:22,018
about the delay.
649
00:34:22,101 --> 00:34:24,479
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- CIVILIAN 1: Yeah, yeah.
650
00:34:24,562 --> 00:34:26,981
JACINDA: The vast majority
of family members
651
00:34:27,023 --> 00:34:29,525
were at the crisis
response center.
652
00:34:32,195 --> 00:34:34,363
I just remember feeling
the heat of the room.
653
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:36,491
So many people packed
into one space,
654
00:34:36,532 --> 00:34:40,078
and just the nervous energy,
and the grief.
655
00:34:40,161 --> 00:34:42,663
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
656
00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:44,332
JACINDA: Huge amounts of grief.
657
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:49,587
Everyone in there
knew someone who had died.
658
00:34:49,670 --> 00:34:52,340
(CIVILIAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
659
00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:54,175
Everyone will have
the opportunity to...
660
00:34:54,217 --> 00:34:55,927
JACINDA: Everyone became quiet.
661
00:34:57,887 --> 00:35:00,515
But then I realized, of course,
I had to say something.
662
00:35:00,598 --> 00:35:03,851
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
663
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:08,523
JACINDA: There was no one else
to hand the microphone to.
664
00:35:08,606 --> 00:35:10,066
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
665
00:35:10,149 --> 00:35:11,359
Go on, Prime Minister.
666
00:35:12,443 --> 00:35:15,822
- Assalamu alaikum.
- CROWD: Wa'alaikumussalam.
667
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:18,741
Peace be upon you,
peace be upon all of us.
668
00:35:20,785 --> 00:35:23,162
I'm here today...
669
00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:26,541
to bring with me the grief
of all of New Zealand.
670
00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,503
And there is huge grief
in this nation
671
00:35:31,337 --> 00:35:34,215
that we share with you
on your behalf.
672
00:35:34,257 --> 00:35:35,633
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
673
00:35:35,716 --> 00:35:37,593
You want your loved ones back.
674
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,640
And I know that there are
religious considerations
675
00:35:42,723 --> 00:35:43,808
with their burial.
676
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,894
Tell people what you know.
677
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:50,398
Even if it's hard,
tell people what you know.
678
00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:53,109
And so, I told people
that, yes...
679
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:56,112
you know,
the names would be released,
680
00:35:56,195 --> 00:35:58,281
and the bodies would be taken,
681
00:35:58,364 --> 00:36:00,158
but they wouldn't be
released quickly.
682
00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:03,744
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
683
00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,039
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
684
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:14,964
(CIVILIAN SOBBING)
685
00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:30,813
JACINDA: When I was told
686
00:36:30,897 --> 00:36:33,441
that he was an Australian
who purposely came in
687
00:36:33,524 --> 00:36:37,612
to target our Muslim community
in some kind of attempt
688
00:36:37,653 --> 00:36:41,115
to create a war amongst people,
or to other them,
689
00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:43,910
I remember feeling
just so angry.
690
00:36:45,161 --> 00:36:46,996
I mean, you're devastated
at what's happened,
691
00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:50,208
but at the same time,
I just felt angry.
692
00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:53,085
But I genuinely questioned
whether or not I was allowed
693
00:36:53,127 --> 00:36:56,130
to kind of show emotion
like that.
694
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:57,548
My job was to be...
695
00:36:58,841 --> 00:37:00,301
the calm voice,
696
00:37:00,384 --> 00:37:03,638
the voice who shared
the facts, you know?
697
00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:07,099
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
698
00:37:07,141 --> 00:37:08,559
REPORTER 1:
The Prime Minister's response
699
00:37:08,643 --> 00:37:11,562
to the attack left
a lasting impression on Muslims.
700
00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:13,814
REPORTER 2:
She was asked by President Trump
701
00:37:13,856 --> 00:37:16,692
what support
the United States can provide.
702
00:37:18,152 --> 00:37:19,528
Her response,
703
00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:22,865
sympathy and love
for all Muslim communities.
704
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:26,035
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
705
00:37:26,118 --> 00:37:29,330
JACINDA: "I personally thank you
who support our community.
706
00:37:29,372 --> 00:37:31,749
I literally cried every time
I watched you on TV,
707
00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:33,542
and gave a speech.
708
00:37:33,626 --> 00:37:38,005
Also, I apologize
that because of our existence,
709
00:37:38,047 --> 00:37:40,841
my appearance,
my coming to your country,
710
00:37:40,883 --> 00:37:43,803
has made your country
become unsafe for everyone."
711
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:49,392
I still find it quite hard
to comprehend
712
00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:51,686
that you could have...
713
00:37:51,727 --> 00:37:53,688
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
714
00:38:01,862 --> 00:38:04,031
That there could be
so many people who die...
715
00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:07,118
(SNIFFLES)
...and then people thank you.
716
00:38:12,164 --> 00:38:15,209
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
717
00:38:15,251 --> 00:38:17,420
It just makes me feel
incredibly sad.
718
00:38:26,387 --> 00:38:27,722
People shouldn't have
to thank you
719
00:38:27,763 --> 00:38:30,891
for a humane response.
That should be your expectation.
720
00:38:34,437 --> 00:38:37,898
And it just says to me
how little I understood
721
00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:40,818
of the experience
of Muslim communities...
722
00:38:41,902 --> 00:38:43,863
that it would be worth
commenting on.
723
00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:46,198
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
724
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:47,616
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
725
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,495
♪ ("PEACE TRAIN"
BY CAT STEVENS PLAYING) ♪
726
00:38:57,543 --> 00:39:00,588
CAT STEVENS:
♪ Oh, I've been smiling lately ♪
727
00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:03,507
♪ Dreaming about
The world as one ♪
728
00:39:03,591 --> 00:39:07,094
♪ And I believe it could be ♪
729
00:39:07,136 --> 00:39:09,180
♪ Someday, it's gonna come ♪
730
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:13,267
♪ 'Cause out
On the edge of darkness ♪
731
00:39:13,309 --> 00:39:15,895
♪ There rides a peace train ♪
732
00:39:15,936 --> 00:39:19,523
♪ Oh, peace train
Take this country ♪
733
00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:22,109
♪ Come take me home again ♪
734
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:25,237
♪ 'Cause I've been
Smiling lately ♪
735
00:39:25,279 --> 00:39:28,366
♪ Thinkin' about
The good things to come ♪
736
00:39:28,449 --> 00:39:32,119
♪ And I believe it could be ♪
737
00:39:32,161 --> 00:39:34,455
♪ Something good has begun ♪
738
00:39:34,497 --> 00:39:37,708
♪ Oh, peace train
Sounding louder ♪
739
00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:40,044
♪ Glide on the peace train ♪
740
00:39:40,753 --> 00:39:43,714
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh! ♪
741
00:39:43,798 --> 00:39:45,674
♪ Come on, peace train ♪
742
00:39:46,634 --> 00:39:49,637
♪ Peace train, holy roller... ♪
743
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:53,182
JACINDA: Today,
as the country grieves,
744
00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:55,309
we are seeking answers.
745
00:39:57,603 --> 00:40:00,731
I want to speak specifically
about the firearms used
746
00:40:00,815 --> 00:40:02,566
in this terrorist act.
747
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:03,734
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
748
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:07,822
I'm advised that there were
two semi-automatic weapons,
749
00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:10,241
and two shotguns.
750
00:40:10,324 --> 00:40:14,161
The offender was in possession
of a gun license.
751
00:40:14,203 --> 00:40:16,956
I can tell you
one thing right now,
752
00:40:16,997 --> 00:40:19,166
our gun laws will change.
753
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:21,669
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
754
00:40:21,710 --> 00:40:24,338
JACINDA: I didn't even know
if I had the numbers.
755
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:27,174
I've got a government
that requires three parties
756
00:40:27,216 --> 00:40:28,676
to agree on everything
that we do,
757
00:40:28,759 --> 00:40:29,927
and I represent one of them.
758
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:32,513
But it didn't matter.
759
00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:34,432
I thought,
"I'm just gonna make this work."
760
00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:41,355
JUDITH COLLINS:
You can get 140 rounds
761
00:40:41,397 --> 00:40:42,523
in a magazine.
762
00:40:42,565 --> 00:40:44,525
They're like a round thing,
like a Gatling gun.
763
00:40:44,608 --> 00:40:47,987
That's not okay for New Zealand,
and we will stand against them.
764
00:40:48,028 --> 00:40:51,365
DAVID SEYMOUR:
This bill is not an attempt
765
00:40:51,407 --> 00:40:53,159
to improve public safety.
766
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,621
It is an exercise
in political theater.
767
00:40:57,705 --> 00:40:59,540
If there were suggestions
768
00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:02,209
that we shouldn't be banning
attack rifles,
769
00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:03,794
or military-style
automatic weapons,
770
00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:05,212
I'd like to hear
those arguments.
771
00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:07,506
Regardless of the number
that are in circulation,
772
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:11,427
our goal is to get as many
as we can out of circulation.
773
00:41:11,510 --> 00:41:14,555
REHANNA ALI: Whatever reasons
might be brought to bear
774
00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:17,391
for not supporting
this legislation
775
00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:20,728
can never outweigh
the 50 reasons
776
00:41:20,769 --> 00:41:22,438
we carry with us today.
777
00:41:22,521 --> 00:41:24,440
♪ (TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
778
00:41:24,523 --> 00:41:26,317
JACINDA: We are here
just 26 days
779
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,403
after the most devastating
of terrorist attacks
780
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,155
in New Zealand's history.
781
00:41:32,072 --> 00:41:34,950
When I visited the hospitals
and the victims,
782
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:37,953
none of them
had just one gunshot wound.
783
00:41:38,037 --> 00:41:41,582
In every case,
they spoke of multiple injuries,
784
00:41:41,624 --> 00:41:44,418
multiple debilitating injuries.
785
00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:47,838
I could not fathom
786
00:41:47,922 --> 00:41:52,510
how weapons that could cause
such destruction,
787
00:41:53,052 --> 00:41:55,429
and large-scale death
788
00:41:55,513 --> 00:42:00,100
could have been obtained legally
in this country.
789
00:42:00,184 --> 00:42:03,729
Fifty people died
and they do not have a voice.
790
00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:05,981
We in this House
are their voice.
791
00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:09,693
And today, Mr. Speaker,
we have used that voice wisely.
792
00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:12,821
- ♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (LAWMAKERS APPLAUDING)
793
00:42:12,905 --> 00:42:16,450
SPEAKER: The ayes are 119,
the noes are one.
794
00:42:16,492 --> 00:42:18,953
(LAWMAKERS APPLAUDING)
795
00:42:25,834 --> 00:42:28,546
JACINDA: Today, I'm announcing
that New Zealand will ban
796
00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:32,007
all military-style
semi-automatic weapons.
797
00:42:32,091 --> 00:42:36,136
We will also ban
all assault rifles.
798
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:39,473
We will ban
all high-capacity magazines.
799
00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:41,141
REPORTER 1: Folks are truly
stunned this morning
800
00:42:41,225 --> 00:42:42,935
by how quickly
New Zealand is moving
801
00:42:42,977 --> 00:42:44,436
to change its gun laws.
802
00:42:44,478 --> 00:42:46,480
REPORTER 2:
Prime Minister of New Zealand
has announced immediate action
803
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:47,481
to ban assault weapons.
804
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:49,066
REPORTER 3:
New Zealanders have turned in
805
00:42:49,149 --> 00:42:50,985
more than 50,000 guns.
806
00:42:51,068 --> 00:42:52,695
The country's buyback program
ended at midnight...
807
00:42:52,778 --> 00:42:54,113
REPORTER 4: Even President Obama
808
00:42:54,154 --> 00:42:55,739
couldn't do that
in the United States
809
00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:57,616
after the massacre of children
at Sandy Hook.
810
00:42:57,658 --> 00:42:58,867
REPORTER 5:
The overnight announcement
811
00:42:58,951 --> 00:43:00,286
getting attention
from both sides
812
00:43:00,327 --> 00:43:01,996
of the gun debate in the U.S.
813
00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:04,498
♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
814
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,593
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
815
00:43:17,052 --> 00:43:18,804
JACINDA: It's gonna dance...
816
00:43:19,805 --> 00:43:21,473
and it's gonna make a noise.
817
00:43:22,808 --> 00:43:24,310
♪ (CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKER) ♪
818
00:43:24,351 --> 00:43:27,521
- (JACINDA CHUCKLES)
- (CLARKE LAUGHING)
819
00:43:27,563 --> 00:43:32,109
♪ ("SLEIGH RIDE"
PLAYING OVER SPEAKER)♪
820
00:43:32,192 --> 00:43:33,319
JACINDA: Oopsie!
821
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,071
♪ ("FEVER"
BY ALDOUS HARDING PLAYING) ♪
822
00:43:36,155 --> 00:43:38,198
- (CLARKE WHISTLES)
- JACINDA: Ooh!
823
00:43:38,282 --> 00:43:39,950
- (LAUGHS)
- (CLARKE CHUCKLES)
824
00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:43,787
- It looks good.
- I think it looks good.
825
00:43:43,871 --> 00:43:45,080
- Do you like it?
- Yeah.
826
00:43:46,415 --> 00:43:48,208
INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us
about the proposal?
827
00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:50,377
JACINDA:
828
00:43:54,256 --> 00:43:57,718
♪ ...been so tired
You said, "You bet" ♪
829
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,804
JACINDA: Mr. Speaker,
it's time to change
830
00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:03,182
New Zealand's
outdated abortion laws.
831
00:44:03,223 --> 00:44:06,101
Abortion should not be a crime
in this country.
832
00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:08,395
Please show us
your respect for women.
833
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,981
Show us you recognize
we're capable of deciding
834
00:44:11,065 --> 00:44:12,399
what's right for us.
835
00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:14,401
Give us our dignity back.
836
00:44:15,444 --> 00:44:18,530
The ayes are 68,
the noes are 51.
837
00:44:18,572 --> 00:44:19,948
The ayes have it.
838
00:44:20,032 --> 00:44:21,659
- Unlock the doors.
- (LAWMAKERS CHEER, APPLAUD)
839
00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:23,494
Unlock the doors.
840
00:44:23,577 --> 00:44:25,245
CLERK:
Abortion legislation bill...
841
00:44:25,329 --> 00:44:26,914
♪ ("FEVER" CONTINUES PLAYING) ♪
842
00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:32,419
♪ I still stare at you
In the dark ♪
843
00:44:32,461 --> 00:44:34,672
Hi there,
this is Jacinda speaking.
844
00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:35,923
NEVE: Hi!
845
00:44:37,257 --> 00:44:39,426
CLARKE: Oh! There she goes.
Right behind you.
846
00:44:39,510 --> 00:44:40,928
- Oh!
- Ooh!
847
00:44:40,969 --> 00:44:42,096
(GIGGLES)
848
00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:45,057
CLARKE: (GIGGLES) Whoa.
849
00:44:48,686 --> 00:44:51,146
♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
850
00:44:51,230 --> 00:44:53,899
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
851
00:44:56,276 --> 00:44:59,154
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
852
00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:02,991
(VOLCANO RUMBLING)
853
00:45:04,326 --> 00:45:05,828
REPORTER 1:
Sudden and deadly volcano
854
00:45:05,911 --> 00:45:07,996
erupting on an island
in New Zealand.
855
00:45:10,624 --> 00:45:12,584
REPORTER 2:
Twenty-two people were killed.
856
00:45:12,626 --> 00:45:15,129
The others suffered
severe burns.
857
00:45:17,923 --> 00:45:18,966
JACINDA: It is now clear
858
00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:21,343
that there were two groups
on the island,
859
00:45:21,427 --> 00:45:25,139
those who were able
to be evacuated
860
00:45:25,180 --> 00:45:27,725
and those who were close
to the eruption.
861
00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:33,105
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
862
00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:58,714
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (WIND WHISTLING FAINTLY)
863
00:45:58,797 --> 00:46:00,674
JACINDA: I remember
coming into the office
864
00:46:00,716 --> 00:46:04,553
at the beginning of 2020
after a really hard year,
865
00:46:04,636 --> 00:46:07,973
and saying, "I have a new mantra
for the year.
866
00:46:09,975 --> 00:46:12,519
I'm going to be Zen.
It's my goal for this year.
867
00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:14,605
I'm just gonna take everything
in my stride,
868
00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:16,273
everything that comes our way."
869
00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:21,028
And then two months later,
COVID arrived.
870
00:46:21,111 --> 00:46:25,657
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
871
00:46:28,410 --> 00:46:31,538
(NEVE SQUEALING, LAUGHING)
872
00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:32,790
JACINDA:
Our health professionals
873
00:46:32,873 --> 00:46:35,834
are telling us that, look,
despite the geopolitical issues,
874
00:46:35,876 --> 00:46:38,545
of course, that this
has fundamentally changed
875
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:40,923
the world, potentially.
876
00:46:42,257 --> 00:46:43,550
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
877
00:46:43,592 --> 00:46:44,760
JACINDA: Take a deep breath.
878
00:46:44,843 --> 00:46:47,221
Like, take a deep breath,
because what--
879
00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:49,389
He just told me that a fight...
880
00:46:49,431 --> 00:46:51,141
there was a brawl
that police were called to,
881
00:46:51,225 --> 00:46:53,894
because a Chinese man
sneezed in Australia.
882
00:46:54,478 --> 00:46:56,063
And what is this gonna do?
883
00:46:56,688 --> 00:46:58,065
It's just horrific.
884
00:46:59,650 --> 00:47:01,568
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
885
00:47:06,907 --> 00:47:09,159
I just feel sorry for myself
listening to that
886
00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:11,370
'cause I just have no idea
what's coming.
887
00:47:13,831 --> 00:47:15,082
Absolutely no idea.
888
00:47:15,165 --> 00:47:17,292
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
889
00:47:19,753 --> 00:47:21,588
JACINDA: New Zealand
is in a very unique position
890
00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:23,757
where we only have six cases
at the moment.
891
00:47:23,841 --> 00:47:27,761
Six cases, two probables,
which makes us pretty unique.
892
00:47:27,803 --> 00:47:29,596
But every other country
in the world
893
00:47:29,638 --> 00:47:32,599
has started out like this,
and then it's gone extreme.
894
00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:35,978
So, today, we're basically
gonna close the borders. (SIGHS)
895
00:47:36,061 --> 00:47:38,438
We will have the most stringent
border controls
896
00:47:38,522 --> 00:47:39,982
in the world at that point.
897
00:47:40,065 --> 00:47:42,109
(BABBLING)
898
00:47:42,192 --> 00:47:44,319
JACINDA:
There's different models
going on at the moment.
899
00:47:45,404 --> 00:47:47,281
Boris Johnson
is taking the approach
900
00:47:47,322 --> 00:47:49,783
of the only choice
is to allow this
901
00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:52,286
to sweep through the country
and get it over and done with.
902
00:47:52,327 --> 00:47:54,621
So, he's not altering
any border controls.
903
00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:57,749
He's basically telling people
that they're going to die...
904
00:47:59,418 --> 00:48:00,836
and that he is going
to try and ease
905
00:48:00,919 --> 00:48:02,588
the suffering of people
who have it.
906
00:48:05,299 --> 00:48:08,343
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
907
00:48:25,903 --> 00:48:27,905
JACINDA:
908
00:48:33,827 --> 00:48:34,995
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
909
00:48:35,537 --> 00:48:38,498
JACINDA:
910
00:48:54,681 --> 00:48:56,642
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
911
00:49:01,063 --> 00:49:03,065
- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- JACINDA:
912
00:49:06,526 --> 00:49:08,528
- (EXHALES SHARPLY)
- STAFF MEMBER: You'll be okay?
913
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:10,614
Yeah.
914
00:49:12,157 --> 00:49:14,868
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
- CLARKE: Oh, honey.
915
00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:16,161
ADVISOR: I think you'll be asked
916
00:49:16,203 --> 00:49:18,288
why didn't you go two days ago,
and I think that's the answer.
917
00:49:18,372 --> 00:49:20,374
I think the answer
is we will be...
918
00:49:20,415 --> 00:49:22,084
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
919
00:49:25,003 --> 00:49:26,964
JACINDA: No, if they ask me
what powers,
920
00:49:27,047 --> 00:49:29,424
I'll say we're using
the Public Health Act,
921
00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,718
I'll be issuing
an epidemic notice,
922
00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:32,928
and we're also moving
923
00:49:33,011 --> 00:49:35,389
in level four to a state
of national emergency.
924
00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:36,515
(EXHALES)
925
00:49:37,683 --> 00:49:39,559
(EXHALES)
926
00:49:39,643 --> 00:49:41,728
- (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
- JACINDA: Good afternoon.
927
00:49:43,772 --> 00:49:46,525
We currently have 102 cases.
928
00:49:46,566 --> 00:49:49,277
If community transmission
takes off in New Zealand,
929
00:49:49,361 --> 00:49:53,240
the number of cases will double
every five days.
930
00:49:53,323 --> 00:49:54,324
If that happens,
931
00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:57,411
our health system
will be inundated
932
00:49:57,452 --> 00:50:00,831
and tens of thousands
of New Zealanders will die.
933
00:50:01,915 --> 00:50:04,793
We have always said
we would act early,
934
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:07,963
decisively, and go hard.
935
00:50:08,046 --> 00:50:10,966
- ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- JACINDA: Our plan is simple.
936
00:50:11,049 --> 00:50:14,678
We can stop the spread
by staying at home
937
00:50:14,761 --> 00:50:16,763
and reducing contact.
938
00:50:16,805 --> 00:50:19,641
Non-essential businesses
in New Zealand
939
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:22,019
must now close.
940
00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:25,272
All bars, restaurants,
941
00:50:25,313 --> 00:50:27,941
cafes, playgrounds,
942
00:50:27,983 --> 00:50:30,444
any other place
where the public congregate
943
00:50:30,527 --> 00:50:33,447
must close
their face-to-face function.
944
00:50:33,530 --> 00:50:36,366
Thank you
for all that you're about to do.
945
00:50:36,450 --> 00:50:41,747
Please be strong, be kind,
and unite against COVID-19.
946
00:50:42,497 --> 00:50:47,502
♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
947
00:50:49,671 --> 00:50:52,799
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
948
00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:12,569
JACINDA: If I was going to lead
through this pandemic,
949
00:51:12,652 --> 00:51:15,363
I needed to understand
that illness
950
00:51:15,447 --> 00:51:17,157
as well as anyone else.
951
00:51:19,201 --> 00:51:23,538
If things went wrong,
it was my job to try and fix it.
952
00:51:26,333 --> 00:51:28,001
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- CLARKE:
953
00:51:34,007 --> 00:51:35,425
(SCOFFS) See? No pressure.
954
00:51:38,637 --> 00:51:40,555
(NEVE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
955
00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:44,184
There you go.
956
00:51:44,226 --> 00:51:45,644
(NEVE BABBLES)
957
00:51:50,899 --> 00:51:55,654
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
958
00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:11,920
JACINDA: Growing up, my dad,
you know, over summer,
959
00:52:12,003 --> 00:52:13,338
he would, you know,
960
00:52:13,380 --> 00:52:15,048
it was the time
when he would read something
961
00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:16,883
other than the newspaper
every night,
962
00:52:16,967 --> 00:52:20,470
and he would read these books
on Antarctic exploration.
963
00:52:20,554 --> 00:52:22,222
(FILM PROJECTOR RATTLING)
964
00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:24,432
JACINDA: From what they called
"The Heroic Age."
965
00:52:27,352 --> 00:52:29,646
I just loved those stories.
966
00:52:33,692 --> 00:52:36,778
Ernest Shackleton
was an Antarctic explorer
967
00:52:36,862 --> 00:52:40,907
who set off in 1914
to be the first person
968
00:52:40,949 --> 00:52:44,703
to make a land-based crossing
of the Antarctic continent.
969
00:52:47,330 --> 00:52:51,209
But his ship became stuck
in pack ice.
970
00:52:51,251 --> 00:52:56,131
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
CONTINUES) ♪
971
00:53:00,343 --> 00:53:03,638
JACINDA:
As a leader, he was so focused
972
00:53:03,722 --> 00:53:08,310
on how he could maintain
collective optimism.
973
00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:11,438
He was really focused
on how the team
974
00:53:11,521 --> 00:53:12,689
would come together.
975
00:53:19,487 --> 00:53:23,950
Instead of achieving his goal,
his entire focus became
976
00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:27,204
saving the lives of those
who were with him.
977
00:53:27,287 --> 00:53:29,623
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (EXPLORERS CHATTERING)
978
00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:32,876
(WIND HOWLING FAINTLY)
979
00:53:43,887 --> 00:53:45,805
JACINDA: I had the very best
scientific advice,
980
00:53:45,889 --> 00:53:48,308
the best public health advice,
great ministers.
981
00:53:49,392 --> 00:53:52,687
But...
it still sat squarely on me.
982
00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:57,859
CLARKE:
983
00:54:01,821 --> 00:54:03,782
- Yep.
- (CLARKE CHUCKLES)
984
00:54:07,953 --> 00:54:09,537
Yep.
985
00:54:09,621 --> 00:54:12,707
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
986
00:54:16,169 --> 00:54:18,672
JACINDA: I just need
to focus on the evidence,
987
00:54:18,713 --> 00:54:22,175
and the science,
and the modeling, and...
988
00:54:23,718 --> 00:54:25,345
the right thing to do.
989
00:54:25,387 --> 00:54:28,848
This is sitting between me
and going to sleep now.
990
00:54:28,932 --> 00:54:30,767
- (CLARKE CHUCKLES)
- This and you. Sorry.
991
00:54:30,850 --> 00:54:33,770
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
CONTINUES) ♪
992
00:54:46,032 --> 00:54:47,784
Are you fake carrying
993
00:54:47,867 --> 00:54:49,536
- washing around the room?
- Yes, I am.
994
00:54:49,619 --> 00:54:53,415
(BOTH LAUGH)
995
00:54:57,294 --> 00:54:58,795
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
996
00:55:01,631 --> 00:55:03,258
- CLARKE: Good luck.
- Okay, see you.
997
00:55:09,514 --> 00:55:10,932
(CLARKE CHUCKLES)
998
00:55:11,016 --> 00:55:13,268
JACINDA:
Today, there are no active cases
in New Zealand.
999
00:55:13,351 --> 00:55:14,936
NEVE:
1000
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:16,396
JOURNALIST:
...your immediate reaction
1001
00:55:16,438 --> 00:55:18,982
when you heard there were
no active cases of COVID-19
1002
00:55:19,065 --> 00:55:20,317
remaining in New Zealand?
1003
00:55:21,026 --> 00:55:24,654
Um, I... I did a little dance.
1004
00:55:24,738 --> 00:55:26,489
REPORTER 1:
With no active cases,
1005
00:55:26,573 --> 00:55:28,783
crowds can now gather
wherever, whenever.
1006
00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:31,661
REPORTER 2: In New Zealand,
the pandemic doesn't exist.
1007
00:55:31,745 --> 00:55:34,122
No face masks,
no social restrictions,
1008
00:55:34,205 --> 00:55:36,166
no hospitals in crisis.
1009
00:55:36,791 --> 00:55:42,088
ANDREW CAMPBELL:
1010
00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:44,674
What is it? Why?
What is it I'm doing that...
1011
00:55:44,758 --> 00:55:46,051
CAMPBELL:
1012
00:55:51,681 --> 00:55:55,352
It's not a moral,
it's a science-based response.
1013
00:55:58,104 --> 00:55:59,773
JACINDA: What, life over money?
1014
00:55:59,814 --> 00:56:01,941
CAMPBELL:
1015
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:03,068
Yeah.
1016
00:56:04,027 --> 00:56:05,779
(APPLAUSE)
1017
00:56:05,862 --> 00:56:08,448
JACINDA:
1018
00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:12,452
(ALL LAUGH)
1019
00:56:12,535 --> 00:56:15,622
Neve, when she sees me
pick this up, says,
1020
00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:17,832
- "Bye-bye, see you tomorrow."
- (ALL LAUGH)
1021
00:56:20,293 --> 00:56:21,669
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1022
00:56:21,753 --> 00:56:23,254
STAFF MEMBER: Hello, Neve.
1023
00:56:23,296 --> 00:56:24,547
(JACINDA SIGHING)
1024
00:56:24,631 --> 00:56:26,049
INTERVIEWER:
1025
00:56:33,306 --> 00:56:36,267
JACINDA: (RECORDING, CHUCKLES)
Um...
1026
00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:47,821
(NEVE BABBLING)
1027
00:56:48,530 --> 00:56:51,241
JACINDA:
1028
00:57:03,837 --> 00:57:10,093
(PERFORMERS HARMONIZING)
1029
00:57:12,137 --> 00:57:13,346
(CONTINUE HARMONIZING)
1030
00:57:13,388 --> 00:57:17,016
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1031
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:22,147
CLARKE: I don't know
if you know what it's like
1032
00:57:22,188 --> 00:57:25,191
to try and have
a disagreement with someone
1033
00:57:25,233 --> 00:57:26,860
who has just been voted
1034
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:30,071
the world's
most eloquent leader.
1035
00:57:30,155 --> 00:57:32,866
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING)
1036
00:57:32,907 --> 00:57:37,537
Please welcome to the stage
my not-quite-wife,
1037
00:57:37,579 --> 00:57:40,373
the Prime Minister
of New Zealand, Jacinda.
1038
00:57:40,415 --> 00:57:46,087
- (AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
- ♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1039
00:57:48,631 --> 00:57:51,426
REPORTER:
There are 17 days to go
1040
00:57:51,509 --> 00:57:53,470
in a COVID-19 election.
1041
00:57:54,888 --> 00:57:58,308
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1042
00:57:58,391 --> 00:57:59,934
(CROWD CHUCKLING)
1043
00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:01,936
Oh, no.
1044
00:58:03,563 --> 00:58:04,647
So... (CHUCKLES)
1045
00:58:04,731 --> 00:58:07,400
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- ♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1046
00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:11,029
JACINDA:
Actually, do you know what?
1047
00:58:14,115 --> 00:58:15,241
WORKER:
1048
00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:17,160
Is it? Oh, thank you.
1049
00:58:17,744 --> 00:58:19,913
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1050
00:58:19,996 --> 00:58:21,915
JACINDA:
I remember election night
1051
00:58:21,956 --> 00:58:25,126
watching seats coming in for us
that never come in for us.
1052
00:58:26,002 --> 00:58:27,921
- Yes!
- ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1053
00:58:28,004 --> 00:58:30,423
JACINDA: And being, you know,
amazed by that.
1054
00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:32,759
COMMENTATOR: Wow! Auckland
is her best place to win.
1055
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:33,843
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
1056
00:58:34,886 --> 00:58:36,054
Here we go, guys.
1057
00:58:37,222 --> 00:58:38,306
(CLARKE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
1058
00:58:38,389 --> 00:58:39,891
Evening, Judith.
1059
00:58:39,933 --> 00:58:41,643
(JUDITH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER PHONE)
1060
00:58:42,227 --> 00:58:43,269
Thank you.
1061
00:58:43,353 --> 00:58:44,521
I really appreciate that,
Judith.
1062
00:58:44,604 --> 00:58:45,813
You look after yourself.
1063
00:58:46,481 --> 00:58:47,524
Take care. Bye.
1064
00:58:50,527 --> 00:58:52,362
Let's summarize that as brief.
1065
00:58:52,445 --> 00:58:53,947
"I'm just calling
to congratulate you.
1066
00:58:54,030 --> 00:58:56,074
You've done brilliantly.
You've done really well."
1067
00:58:56,115 --> 00:58:57,367
CLARKE:
1068
00:58:58,952 --> 00:59:00,787
I think that was a concession.
1069
00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:03,831
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1070
00:59:03,915 --> 00:59:04,958
JACINDA: Tonight...
1071
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,461
New Zealand has
shown the Labour Party
1072
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:12,549
its greatest support
in at least 50 years.
1073
00:59:12,632 --> 00:59:17,011
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1074
00:59:19,138 --> 00:59:21,724
I didn't expect Saturday.
(CHUCKLES)
1075
00:59:21,808 --> 00:59:23,977
Uh, and maybe
1076
00:59:24,060 --> 00:59:26,646
that's because we spent
so much time
1077
00:59:26,688 --> 00:59:28,648
taking nothing for granted
1078
00:59:28,731 --> 00:59:32,151
that I genuinely
took nothing for granted.
1079
00:59:32,235 --> 00:59:33,861
I don't want you
to think for a moment
1080
00:59:33,945 --> 00:59:35,488
that it was just
because of a pandemic.
1081
00:59:35,530 --> 00:59:37,574
It's because of the way
we got us
1082
00:59:37,657 --> 00:59:38,658
through a pandemic.
1083
00:59:38,741 --> 00:59:42,495
Crises make governments
and they break governments.
1084
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:44,831
And I think we just displayed
what we're made of.
1085
00:59:44,872 --> 00:59:46,958
And what we're made of
is compassion, and empathy,
1086
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,294
and a real drive
to do things for others.
1087
00:59:49,335 --> 00:59:52,839
(CROWD CHEERING)
1088
01:00:00,263 --> 01:00:06,060
♪ (MUSIC TURNS UPLIFTING) ♪
1089
01:00:16,487 --> 01:00:18,323
INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
Probably a good time to ask you
1090
01:00:18,364 --> 01:00:20,199
how you're feeling
about the job now.
1091
01:00:20,241 --> 01:00:22,076
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1092
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,996
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
1093
01:00:29,417 --> 01:00:33,338
- ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (SIRENS WAILING)
1094
01:00:35,923 --> 01:00:39,427
JACINDA:
We knew the rest of the world
was in a horrific winter,
1095
01:00:39,510 --> 01:00:41,763
in the middle
of managing COVID.
1096
01:00:41,846 --> 01:00:45,391
And here we were,
so lucky, out in the sun.
1097
01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:47,727
Just a couple
of days before New Year's
1098
01:00:47,810 --> 01:00:51,314
and I'm standing on a stage
at a concert.
1099
01:00:52,690 --> 01:00:55,526
There was this euphoria
that you could tell was there
1100
01:00:55,568 --> 01:00:58,029
because of what people
had gone through that year.
1101
01:00:59,614 --> 01:01:03,034
Just the sheer joy that here
was everyone out together.
1102
01:01:05,453 --> 01:01:07,163
I looked out and thought,
1103
01:01:08,289 --> 01:01:09,415
"Oh my gosh,
1104
01:01:09,457 --> 01:01:11,542
what if one person
in that crowd has COVID?"
1105
01:01:15,713 --> 01:01:18,466
Every time I saw
some people's names on my phone,
1106
01:01:18,549 --> 01:01:21,761
I thought,
"Oh no, have we got a case?
1107
01:01:21,803 --> 01:01:22,845
Have we got a case?"
1108
01:01:22,929 --> 01:01:25,223
If I was in a meeting
and a staff member walked out,
1109
01:01:25,264 --> 01:01:27,058
I would think,
"We've got a case."
1110
01:01:27,850 --> 01:01:29,435
It haunted me.
1111
01:01:29,477 --> 01:01:33,022
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1112
01:01:36,109 --> 01:01:39,612
We've had a phone call,
another COVID outbreak.
1113
01:01:42,782 --> 01:01:45,201
- I wanna go! (SOBBING)
- No, no, no, darling.
1114
01:01:45,284 --> 01:01:48,788
- We're going soon.
- (SOBBING) I wanna go.
1115
01:01:50,748 --> 01:01:52,792
JACINDA: We made the decision
to move Auckland
1116
01:01:52,875 --> 01:01:54,502
to alert level three
1117
01:01:54,585 --> 01:01:56,629
for a period of seven days.
1118
01:01:56,713 --> 01:02:00,007
New Zealand will move
to alert level four
from 11:59...
1119
01:02:00,091 --> 01:02:02,677
...move to level two at 11:59...
1120
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,804
REPORTER 1: She's the darling
of the liberal left
1121
01:02:04,846 --> 01:02:07,348
and she likes lockdowns.
1122
01:02:07,432 --> 01:02:08,975
REPORTER 2:
Most authoritarian leader
1123
01:02:09,016 --> 01:02:12,812
that country has ever had
and no one else comes close.
1124
01:02:13,813 --> 01:02:15,815
JACINDA:
1125
01:02:37,545 --> 01:02:39,756
♪ (MUSIC TURNS PENSIVE) ♪
1126
01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:45,094
I just don't understand
how anyone could assume
1127
01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:48,973
that I'm so cavalier
about having a whole city
1128
01:02:49,015 --> 01:02:50,725
and over a million people
in lockdown.
1129
01:02:50,808 --> 01:02:54,395
Of course,
I think about it all the time.
1130
01:02:54,479 --> 01:02:55,688
I have to take sleeping pills
1131
01:02:55,730 --> 01:02:57,899
so I don't think
about it all the time.
1132
01:02:59,650 --> 01:03:01,778
- (WATER SPLASHING)
- (CUP CLANKS)
1133
01:03:01,861 --> 01:03:04,697
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1134
01:03:04,739 --> 01:03:06,949
SIMON BRIDGES: My question
is to the Prime Minister.
1135
01:03:07,033 --> 01:03:09,410
Does she accept estimates
1136
01:03:09,494 --> 01:03:11,871
that New Zealand's economy
will shrink
1137
01:03:11,913 --> 01:03:14,373
by ten percent this year,
1138
01:03:14,457 --> 01:03:17,251
while Australia's will fall
by less than five?
1139
01:03:17,335 --> 01:03:18,920
JACINDA:
Mr. Speaker, as I've said,
1140
01:03:19,003 --> 01:03:21,506
- I've heard the range of...
- BRIDGES:
1141
01:03:23,216 --> 01:03:24,383
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1142
01:03:24,467 --> 01:03:25,468
SPEAKER: Order, order.
1143
01:03:25,551 --> 01:03:27,887
Simon Bridges yelled
across the House,
1144
01:03:27,929 --> 01:03:29,722
"She doesn't do the economy."
1145
01:03:29,764 --> 01:03:31,349
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1146
01:03:32,975 --> 01:03:34,393
I wanted to punch him
in the face.
1147
01:03:34,435 --> 01:03:35,394
(CLARKE CHUCKLES)
1148
01:03:35,478 --> 01:03:36,896
JACINDA:
That member may have the luxury
1149
01:03:36,938 --> 01:03:38,564
of sitting on that side
of the House
1150
01:03:38,606 --> 01:03:41,818
not bearing the consequences
of a wrong move.
1151
01:03:41,901 --> 01:03:44,987
Shouldn't the Prime Minister
make a new decision
1152
01:03:45,071 --> 01:03:49,826
every single day
about how she can safely
1153
01:03:49,909 --> 01:03:51,577
get more businesses
back to business?
1154
01:03:51,661 --> 01:03:53,371
I'd love to see
the member's evidence
1155
01:03:53,412 --> 01:03:55,581
that that's not exactly
what we are doing.
1156
01:03:55,623 --> 01:03:57,750
We're like a group of children
in the backseat of the car
1157
01:03:57,792 --> 01:03:59,752
yelling, "Are we there yet?"
1158
01:03:59,836 --> 01:04:02,880
Mr. Speaker,
it's a global pandemic.
1159
01:04:07,802 --> 01:04:09,095
(NEVE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
1160
01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:14,100
♪ (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1161
01:04:18,521 --> 01:04:21,524
Relative to other years,
this has been the worst.
1162
01:04:21,607 --> 01:04:23,276
(ALL LAUGH)
1163
01:04:23,359 --> 01:04:24,443
GUEST: Yeah.
1164
01:04:24,527 --> 01:04:28,239
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1165
01:04:29,365 --> 01:04:31,868
♪ (GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1166
01:04:34,245 --> 01:04:35,413
NEVE:
1167
01:04:37,748 --> 01:04:40,793
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
1168
01:04:45,882 --> 01:04:46,799
Hey.
1169
01:04:46,883 --> 01:04:49,969
(VOICE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER PHONE)
1170
01:04:50,595 --> 01:04:51,721
JACINDA: Yeah.
1171
01:04:51,804 --> 01:04:54,599
(VOICE CONTINUES SPEAKING)
1172
01:04:55,391 --> 01:04:56,392
JACINDA: Yeah.
1173
01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:00,688
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
1174
01:05:05,234 --> 01:05:06,360
CLARKE: What a bugger.
1175
01:05:10,489 --> 01:05:11,824
Here we are in a country
1176
01:05:11,908 --> 01:05:14,201
that has pretty much
suppressed Delta
1177
01:05:14,285 --> 01:05:16,245
through our remarkable uptake
1178
01:05:16,329 --> 01:05:18,539
and success
of our vaccine program.
1179
01:05:18,623 --> 01:05:20,666
And just when you think
you've got a handle on that,
1180
01:05:20,708 --> 01:05:22,001
and that life is, sort of,
1181
01:05:22,084 --> 01:05:24,045
coming to some semblance
of normal,
1182
01:05:24,128 --> 01:05:25,546
along comes another variant.
1183
01:05:26,964 --> 01:05:29,383
It's not going to be pretty
as people adjust
1184
01:05:29,467 --> 01:05:31,969
and get used
to yet another wave
1185
01:05:32,011 --> 01:05:33,804
of this incredibly
unpredictable...
1186
01:05:34,931 --> 01:05:37,099
bastard of a... of a virus.
1187
01:05:38,267 --> 01:05:39,602
JACINDA:
If it has been four months
1188
01:05:39,685 --> 01:05:40,895
since your second dose,
1189
01:05:40,978 --> 01:05:42,396
you are due your booster.
1190
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:44,649
Please go to Book My Vaccine...
1191
01:05:44,690 --> 01:05:45,983
CLARKE: A whole lot
of anti-vaxxers
1192
01:05:46,025 --> 01:05:47,902
have now shown up
at my parents' house
1193
01:05:47,985 --> 01:05:49,362
and are protesting
out the front.
1194
01:05:50,738 --> 01:05:53,491
We don't have
overbearing security.
1195
01:05:54,617 --> 01:05:58,162
And then suddenly
you start to feel a bit unsafe.
1196
01:05:58,204 --> 01:06:01,582
JACINDA: Just a reminder again,
of course, we've had...
1197
01:06:01,666 --> 01:06:03,709
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1198
01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:14,470
(CROWD CHEERING)
1199
01:06:14,553 --> 01:06:16,639
PROTEST LEADER:
Shout out, "Freedom!"
1200
01:06:16,722 --> 01:06:18,391
CROWD: Freedom!
1201
01:06:18,432 --> 01:06:19,809
PROTEST LEADER:
Shout out "Freedom!"
1202
01:06:19,892 --> 01:06:20,893
CROWD: Freedom!
1203
01:06:23,270 --> 01:06:27,149
CAMPBELL:
1204
01:06:35,408 --> 01:06:36,450
And I think...
1205
01:06:39,078 --> 01:06:40,329
Yeah.
1206
01:06:42,248 --> 01:06:45,543
INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
Okay, well, a new year,
another year.
1207
01:06:46,335 --> 01:06:47,420
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
1208
01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:49,255
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
1209
01:06:49,338 --> 01:06:51,590
JACINDA:
1210
01:07:12,361 --> 01:07:13,362
INTERVIEWER: Hmm.
1211
01:07:14,572 --> 01:07:18,075
JACINDA:
1212
01:07:18,117 --> 01:07:20,619
Mm, it gets bigger. Hmm.
1213
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:27,293
(ENGINES REVVING)
1214
01:07:27,376 --> 01:07:28,878
PROTEST LEADER 1:
You're trying to tell us
1215
01:07:28,961 --> 01:07:32,298
that our freedom is found
in getting the jab!
1216
01:07:32,339 --> 01:07:34,341
Jacinda has created
a New Zealand
1217
01:07:34,425 --> 01:07:36,343
that I do not want to live in.
1218
01:07:36,427 --> 01:07:38,179
I reject Jacindaland!
1219
01:07:38,262 --> 01:07:40,431
PROTEST LEADER 2:
Our forefathers have fought
for this land
1220
01:07:40,473 --> 01:07:42,391
and you don't ride
roughshod over it
1221
01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:45,770
because some girl in a skirt
is on a power trip!
1222
01:07:45,811 --> 01:07:50,608
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1223
01:07:54,195 --> 01:07:57,823
JACINDA: They had fake gallows
on the Forecourt.
1224
01:07:57,907 --> 01:08:01,869
Ropes hanging down there.
1225
01:08:01,952 --> 01:08:06,165
They had the names
of politicians, family members.
1226
01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:08,667
Um, it was, yeah, it was...
1227
01:08:09,710 --> 01:08:11,962
It was grim. Really grim.
1228
01:08:12,004 --> 01:08:15,341
(CROWD CLAMORING)
1229
01:08:17,051 --> 01:08:20,554
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
1230
01:08:26,185 --> 01:08:30,022
- (PROTESTERS CHEERING)
- ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1231
01:08:32,650 --> 01:08:36,153
(PROTEST LEADER
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
1232
01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:38,197
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1233
01:08:40,658 --> 01:08:42,701
CLARKE: So, how would you
describe this last week?
1234
01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:52,044
If there is like
a subterranean space
1235
01:08:52,128 --> 01:08:53,963
that sits beneath hell...
1236
01:08:54,755 --> 01:08:56,340
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
1237
01:08:56,882 --> 01:08:58,551
That. (CHUCKLES)
1238
01:08:59,802 --> 01:09:04,348
(CROWD CLAMORING)
1239
01:09:08,686 --> 01:09:10,396
(CLAMOR CONTINUES)
1240
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:11,939
♪ ("YOU'RE THE VOICE"
PLAYING OVER SPEAKER) ♪
1241
01:09:12,022 --> 01:09:14,150
Oh God, this version
of John Farnham, the song,
1242
01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:16,068
they have played it
so many times.
1243
01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:18,070
- CAMPBELL:
(OVER PHONE) Oh no, no, no.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
1244
01:09:18,154 --> 01:09:20,281
CAMPBELL: It's an absolute party
down there
1245
01:09:20,364 --> 01:09:21,782
by the looks
of what I was just seeing
1246
01:09:21,866 --> 01:09:22,992
- on the live.
- Yeah.
1247
01:09:23,075 --> 01:09:24,160
Anyway, I'm gonna go home.
1248
01:09:24,243 --> 01:09:26,120
I can't do work here
anymore, so...
1249
01:09:26,203 --> 01:09:27,246
CAMPBELL: No, no,
1250
01:09:27,288 --> 01:09:29,456
that's completely
understandable.
1251
01:09:31,250 --> 01:09:33,085
JACINDA: I mean,
their protest signs all say,
1252
01:09:33,169 --> 01:09:35,045
"End the mandate
and we'll go home."
1253
01:09:35,087 --> 01:09:38,924
I would wager that probably
95 percent of the people
1254
01:09:39,008 --> 01:09:41,135
down there are not affected
by the mandate.
1255
01:09:41,218 --> 01:09:44,013
They're not nurses
and doctors and teachers.
1256
01:09:47,308 --> 01:09:49,977
They're waving American flags
and Canadian flags,
1257
01:09:50,060 --> 01:09:51,854
and you can't help feeling
that they've fallen
1258
01:09:51,937 --> 01:09:54,440
into someone else's wormhole
and it's not ours.
1259
01:09:55,482 --> 01:09:57,026
Yeah.
1260
01:09:57,109 --> 01:09:59,695
There was a woman on the news
last night that said
1261
01:09:59,778 --> 01:10:01,614
that her husband
had got the booster
1262
01:10:01,655 --> 01:10:03,782
and that she was going
to divorce him...
1263
01:10:03,866 --> 01:10:07,620
as a result,
and that he would probably die.
1264
01:10:08,704 --> 01:10:10,456
So, that's his third dose
of the vaccine,
1265
01:10:10,539 --> 01:10:11,665
and he is not dead,
1266
01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:14,293
so obviously he is not
going to die. (CHUCKLES)
1267
01:10:14,335 --> 01:10:15,628
But that's where--
1268
01:10:15,711 --> 01:10:17,296
That's the psychology
down there.
1269
01:10:17,338 --> 01:10:19,506
And it's quite hard to know that
that's what you're dealing with,
1270
01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:21,133
'cause it's not rational.
1271
01:10:22,301 --> 01:10:24,637
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1272
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:30,851
(CROWD CLAMORING)
1273
01:10:30,935 --> 01:10:33,103
JACINDA: We didn't intend
for mandates to be forever,
1274
01:10:33,145 --> 01:10:34,730
but the problem is
we couldn't...
1275
01:10:34,813 --> 01:10:36,941
We, at that point,
couldn't say when we felt like
1276
01:10:36,982 --> 01:10:38,359
we could safely remove them,
1277
01:10:38,442 --> 01:10:41,320
but what I wasn't going to do
was arbitrarily remove them
1278
01:10:41,403 --> 01:10:43,989
because people were occupying
Parliament's grounds.
1279
01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:48,535
Your job is to govern
for everybody.
1280
01:10:49,078 --> 01:10:51,830
PROTESTER:
1281
01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:54,333
CALLER 1:
Talking about the country
being deeply divided.
1282
01:10:54,416 --> 01:10:57,127
It's not deeply divided.
It's not.
1283
01:10:57,169 --> 01:10:59,838
There's a one,
two-percent minority
1284
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:01,382
who are making a lot of noise
1285
01:11:01,465 --> 01:11:03,008
because they can't get
what they want
1286
01:11:03,050 --> 01:11:05,010
and they don't want to do
their bit for society.
1287
01:11:05,052 --> 01:11:06,512
CALLER 2:
1288
01:11:10,599 --> 01:11:14,645
CALLER 3:
1289
01:11:21,318 --> 01:11:24,613
CALLER 4:
1290
01:11:25,447 --> 01:11:28,617
(CROW CLAMORING)
1291
01:11:28,701 --> 01:11:31,704
CALLER 5:
1292
01:11:48,053 --> 01:11:51,932
REPORTER:
1293
01:11:54,768 --> 01:11:55,936
Wow.
1294
01:11:57,229 --> 01:12:00,816
Hands off our children.
There's... there's no...
1295
01:12:00,899 --> 01:12:03,402
There's no vaccine mandates
for children.
1296
01:12:03,444 --> 01:12:05,195
And you see
those signs everywhere.
1297
01:12:06,572 --> 01:12:09,658
(CROWD CLAMORING)
1298
01:12:10,409 --> 01:12:12,244
PROTESTER:
1299
01:12:13,579 --> 01:12:14,913
JACINDA: This is an issue...
1300
01:12:14,997 --> 01:12:15,998
ACTIVIST:
1301
01:12:16,081 --> 01:12:17,249
This is an issue...
1302
01:12:17,291 --> 01:12:19,043
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
1303
01:12:21,462 --> 01:12:22,463
(CHILD CRYING)
1304
01:12:22,546 --> 01:12:24,882
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1305
01:12:29,636 --> 01:12:31,430
PROTESTER: No more Jacinda!
1306
01:12:31,513 --> 01:12:34,099
JACINDA: Today, my first event
got hijacked.
1307
01:12:34,141 --> 01:12:36,935
Someone found out where I was
and put it on Facebook,
1308
01:12:37,019 --> 01:12:40,981
and they just descended.
So, by the time I left,
1309
01:12:41,065 --> 01:12:43,442
they had to kind of rush me out.
1310
01:12:43,525 --> 01:12:45,152
PROTESTER 1: There's Jacinda.
1311
01:12:46,153 --> 01:12:47,988
PROTESTER 2: Look at her hiding
in the back.
1312
01:12:48,072 --> 01:12:50,240
Hiding in the fucking back.
1313
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,035
PROTESTER 1:
Go, go, go, go, go.
1314
01:12:53,118 --> 01:12:54,661
(PROTESTERS LAUGHING)
1315
01:12:54,745 --> 01:12:56,622
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1316
01:12:56,705 --> 01:12:59,249
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1317
01:12:59,291 --> 01:13:01,543
INTERVIEWER: (RECORDING)
There's been a bit
of media coverage lately
1318
01:13:01,627 --> 01:13:03,003
about awful online abuse
of women,
1319
01:13:03,087 --> 01:13:05,172
particularly women politicians.
1320
01:13:05,255 --> 01:13:06,590
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
1321
01:13:20,854 --> 01:13:22,272
(NEVE SPEAKING SOFTLY)
1322
01:13:23,816 --> 01:13:24,733
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1323
01:13:24,817 --> 01:13:26,819
JACINDA: At various points
there would be
1324
01:13:26,860 --> 01:13:29,696
different rumors
about me and my family.
1325
01:13:31,698 --> 01:13:33,534
Some of them
were really hurtful.
1326
01:13:33,617 --> 01:13:35,494
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1327
01:13:35,536 --> 01:13:38,580
JACINDA:
One of the attacks on Clarke
1328
01:13:38,664 --> 01:13:42,709
culminated in this hashtag,
"Where is Clarke Gayford?"
1329
01:13:45,921 --> 01:13:47,047
And when I'd see it,
1330
01:13:47,131 --> 01:13:51,510
I would think, "He's at home
raising our baby girl.
1331
01:13:51,593 --> 01:13:52,886
That is where he is."
1332
01:13:54,346 --> 01:13:58,684
CARTOON CHARACTER: (OVER TV)
Wow, you're so fancy...
1333
01:13:58,767 --> 01:14:00,561
JACINDA:
I made the choice to be there.
1334
01:14:00,644 --> 01:14:05,190
My family didn't.
And yet, they paid a price.
1335
01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:08,360
CLARKE: I still smell like fish.
1336
01:14:08,402 --> 01:14:10,154
It's because I've been
living here.
1337
01:14:12,114 --> 01:14:13,323
(CHUCKLES)
1338
01:14:16,994 --> 01:14:18,787
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
1339
01:14:27,546 --> 01:14:28,630
(DOG BARKING)
1340
01:14:29,214 --> 01:14:30,966
JACINDA:
1341
01:14:35,721 --> 01:14:40,225
CAMPBELL: (OVER PHONE)
1342
01:14:48,567 --> 01:14:49,651
Okay.
1343
01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:51,570
CAMPBELL: They didn't know
it was fake or it was real.
1344
01:14:51,653 --> 01:14:53,155
- Yeah.
- CAMPBELL: So at this stage...
1345
01:14:53,238 --> 01:14:55,491
(CONTINUES SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY)
1346
01:14:55,574 --> 01:14:59,495
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1347
01:15:08,962 --> 01:15:12,174
(CROWD CLAMORING)
1348
01:15:12,257 --> 01:15:14,718
- Aotearoa! Aotearoa!
- ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1349
01:15:18,472 --> 01:15:24,937
- (SIRENS WAILING)
- (PROTESTERS PERFORMING HAKA)
1350
01:15:25,020 --> 01:15:27,648
♪ (MUSIC TURNS PENSIVE) ♪
1351
01:15:27,731 --> 01:15:31,193
REPORTER: (ON VIDEO)
A standoff never seen
before at Parliament.
1352
01:15:31,276 --> 01:15:33,612
At dawn,
hundreds of police moved in
1353
01:15:33,654 --> 01:15:35,280
on the occupation that stretched
1354
01:15:35,364 --> 01:15:38,408
into its fourth week,
and they came prepared.
1355
01:15:41,828 --> 01:15:47,084
(PROTESTERS CLAMORING)
1356
01:15:47,125 --> 01:15:49,545
PROTESTOR: Fuck you! Fuck you!
1357
01:15:49,628 --> 01:15:54,508
- (HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
- (PROTESTERS PERFORMING HAKA)
1358
01:16:09,773 --> 01:16:11,441
INTERVIEWER: (OVER PHONE)
Recording identification,
1359
01:16:11,483 --> 01:16:12,734
this is interview number 27
1360
01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:14,695
with Jacinda Ardern
of the Labour Party
1361
01:16:14,778 --> 01:16:16,446
for the Political Diary Project.
1362
01:16:17,364 --> 01:16:19,157
I take it you're not
at Parliament
1363
01:16:19,199 --> 01:16:20,534
with the police
and the protesters?
1364
01:16:20,617 --> 01:16:23,537
JACINDA:
1365
01:16:28,834 --> 01:16:31,587
INTERVIEWER: What's it been like
being besieged there
1366
01:16:31,670 --> 01:16:32,838
these last few weeks?
1367
01:16:32,921 --> 01:16:34,715
Pretty awful.
1368
01:16:34,798 --> 01:16:36,341
And just people
are being abused,
1369
01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:38,218
coming into the Beehive.
1370
01:16:38,302 --> 01:16:39,845
And you just see,
you see all the signs
1371
01:16:39,928 --> 01:16:42,764
- and you hear them, you know.
- (NEVE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1372
01:16:42,848 --> 01:16:44,391
(WHISPERING) You can have
this piece, darling.
1373
01:16:44,474 --> 01:16:47,019
It's that piece here, right?
You can have your own one.
1374
01:16:47,102 --> 01:16:49,646
Oh, you want--
You want one? Okay.
1375
01:16:49,688 --> 01:16:51,356
So, yeah.
So, no, it hasn't been...
1376
01:16:51,398 --> 01:16:53,191
Hasn't-- It hasn't been good.
1377
01:16:53,233 --> 01:16:57,112
- ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (JACINDA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1378
01:16:58,238 --> 01:17:00,157
JACINDA:
1379
01:17:04,703 --> 01:17:08,540
- (PROTESTERS CLAMORING)
- (ALARMS BLARING)
1380
01:17:13,003 --> 01:17:14,880
OFFICER: Just go ahead
and let the people-- Come on.
1381
01:17:14,963 --> 01:17:16,214
Keep going.
1382
01:17:16,298 --> 01:17:20,427
- (CLAMORING CONTINUES)
- ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1383
01:17:25,057 --> 01:17:26,308
PROTESTER 1:
Where are you, Jacinda?
1384
01:17:26,391 --> 01:17:28,393
Your parliament's on fire.
1385
01:17:28,435 --> 01:17:31,897
Look at what you've caused just
by lying to your own people!
1386
01:17:31,938 --> 01:17:36,109
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
1387
01:17:36,193 --> 01:17:38,153
PROTESTER 2:
This is Jacinda's world.
1388
01:17:39,446 --> 01:17:40,822
JACINDA:
What the fuck did they do?
1389
01:17:40,906 --> 01:17:45,035
(ALARMS BLARING IN DISTANCE)
1390
01:17:45,077 --> 01:17:48,246
- (HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
- ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1391
01:17:59,424 --> 01:18:00,509
CLARKE:
1392
01:18:00,592 --> 01:18:02,260
- Anyone?
- STAFF MEMBER:
I'm all good, thank you.
1393
01:18:02,344 --> 01:18:04,763
CLARKE:
Jacinda wants a cup of tea.
Grant, do you want a cup of tea?
1394
01:18:04,846 --> 01:18:06,640
- GRANT: No, thanks, Clarke.
- JACINDA:
1395
01:18:24,825 --> 01:18:26,451
CLARKE: Someone will drink
the cup of tea. Yeah.
1396
01:18:29,037 --> 01:18:31,289
(JACINDA BREATHES DEEPLY)
1397
01:18:33,792 --> 01:18:37,629
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1398
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:41,967
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
1399
01:18:54,563 --> 01:18:59,234
JACINDA: To see the Parliament,
your Parliament, our Parliament,
1400
01:18:59,317 --> 01:19:01,069
desecrated in that way
1401
01:19:01,153 --> 01:19:04,489
by a small group
of illegal protesters,
1402
01:19:04,573 --> 01:19:06,825
made me feel both angry
and deeply sad.
1403
01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:10,078
But as I say, it is not
something that will define
1404
01:19:10,162 --> 01:19:12,205
New Zealand's response
to this pandemic.
1405
01:19:12,289 --> 01:19:14,416
It was an illegal occupation.
1406
01:19:14,499 --> 01:19:18,211
They engaged in hostile,
violent, and aggressive behavior
1407
01:19:18,295 --> 01:19:19,838
throughout the occupation.
1408
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,549
And today, that has culminated
in the desecration
1409
01:19:22,632 --> 01:19:24,760
of this Parliament's grounds,
1410
01:19:24,843 --> 01:19:28,013
the People's Parliament,
our democracy.
1411
01:19:29,765 --> 01:19:32,809
CALLER:
1412
01:19:41,568 --> 01:19:47,157
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1413
01:19:59,044 --> 01:20:02,339
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
1414
01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:03,757
(NEVE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1415
01:20:05,842 --> 01:20:07,552
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
1416
01:20:15,352 --> 01:20:19,481
(WATER SPLASHING)
1417
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:24,277
- CLARKE: It's dark. Pull me.
- (NEVE MUMBLING)
1418
01:20:24,361 --> 01:20:27,197
- (MUMBLING)
- (GRUNTS)
1419
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:29,407
- Is that pretty good?
- NEVE: Yeah.
1420
01:20:29,449 --> 01:20:31,409
- Do you wanna try?
- NEVE: No, no, I...
1421
01:20:31,451 --> 01:20:32,744
(CHUCKLES)
1422
01:20:33,203 --> 01:20:34,996
(WIND RUSTLING)
1423
01:20:37,666 --> 01:20:39,292
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1424
01:20:39,793 --> 01:20:42,629
JACINDA:
1425
01:21:18,373 --> 01:21:21,960
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1426
01:21:27,966 --> 01:21:29,551
JACINDA:
But I still carry grief...
1427
01:21:30,427 --> 01:21:31,469
over it.
1428
01:21:31,511 --> 01:21:32,637
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
1429
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:35,307
JACINDA:
For all the thinking I give
1430
01:21:35,348 --> 01:21:36,641
to what I would have
done differently,
1431
01:21:36,683 --> 01:21:40,061
I would still rather be sitting
in front of the public
1432
01:21:40,145 --> 01:21:42,522
and explaining why
perhaps we did too much...
1433
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:45,692
rather than
why we did too little.
1434
01:21:45,775 --> 01:21:49,654
Because... the doing too little
was the difference
1435
01:21:49,738 --> 01:21:52,699
between people living
and people dying. Mm-hmm.
1436
01:21:53,950 --> 01:21:56,578
- (HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
- (WIND HOWLING FAINTLY)
1437
01:21:59,539 --> 01:22:04,002
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1438
01:22:10,050 --> 01:22:12,886
JACINDA: How many times
have you set out in life
1439
01:22:12,969 --> 01:22:15,972
and thought, "Here's my goal."
1440
01:22:16,014 --> 01:22:18,683
Here's the thing
that I'm setting out to achieve.
1441
01:22:21,519 --> 01:22:23,021
But then along the way,
1442
01:22:23,063 --> 01:22:25,857
achieve something
completely different.
1443
01:22:25,899 --> 01:22:31,029
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1444
01:22:33,156 --> 01:22:36,201
JACINDA: After nearly two years
on the ice...
1445
01:22:37,619 --> 01:22:41,247
in the most
atrocious conditions...
1446
01:22:41,331 --> 01:22:46,753
Shackleton brought
every crew member back alive.
1447
01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:51,383
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
1448
01:23:23,540 --> 01:23:26,626
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1449
01:23:26,710 --> 01:23:28,420
JACINDA:
I had two goals in COVID.
1450
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,758
Save people's lives
and keep everyone together.
1451
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:36,261
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
1452
01:23:37,053 --> 01:23:38,304
JACINDA: And I did one.
1453
01:23:41,474 --> 01:23:43,643
But I didn't manage
to quite do the other.
1454
01:23:52,861 --> 01:23:56,156
JACINDA: (RECORDING)
1455
01:24:13,381 --> 01:24:14,466
We did a lot.
1456
01:24:16,051 --> 01:24:18,303
We did a lot
on progressive issues,
1457
01:24:18,386 --> 01:24:20,096
things that meant a lot to us.
1458
01:24:21,890 --> 01:24:25,477
We set ambitious goals
for climate change,
1459
01:24:25,518 --> 01:24:27,395
lifted kids out of poverty...
1460
01:24:28,188 --> 01:24:29,814
increase the minimum wage
1461
01:24:29,856 --> 01:24:33,068
and try to make
people's lives easier.
1462
01:24:33,151 --> 01:24:35,487
♪ (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC
CONTINUES) ♪
1463
01:24:36,362 --> 01:24:38,656
And I worried that people,
1464
01:24:38,698 --> 01:24:42,494
in reaction to me
having outstayed my welcome,
1465
01:24:42,535 --> 01:24:44,913
that some of the things we did--
and that mattered to me more
1466
01:24:44,996 --> 01:24:47,499
than me being in the job--
that some of the things
1467
01:24:47,582 --> 01:24:50,502
that we achieved
might be undone.
1468
01:24:50,543 --> 01:24:53,004
If we remove me
from the equation,
1469
01:24:53,046 --> 01:24:55,215
then perhaps we won't backslide
on those things.
1470
01:24:55,298 --> 01:24:56,758
Perhaps those things
that really matter,
1471
01:24:56,841 --> 01:24:58,176
they'll stay.
1472
01:24:58,218 --> 01:24:59,636
Even if I'm gone.
1473
01:25:04,516 --> 01:25:08,728
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1474
01:25:10,688 --> 01:25:12,023
JACINDA: I need to just bring
1475
01:25:12,065 --> 01:25:13,691
the temperature down
a little bit
1476
01:25:13,775 --> 01:25:17,403
for the good of politics,
for the good of New Zealand...
1477
01:25:21,157 --> 01:25:24,202
for the good of the pendulum
that swings.
1478
01:25:31,543 --> 01:25:33,962
- Am I allowed out now?
- NEVE: No, you have to...
1479
01:25:35,505 --> 01:25:37,715
JACINDA: It was important to me
that when I made the decision
1480
01:25:37,799 --> 01:25:39,384
there actually
was nothing particularly
1481
01:25:39,467 --> 01:25:41,010
going on at the time.
1482
01:25:41,052 --> 01:25:42,887
(CLARKE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1483
01:25:42,929 --> 01:25:44,889
JACINDA:
COVID and the occupation
1484
01:25:44,973 --> 01:25:46,266
was almost a year ago.
1485
01:25:48,518 --> 01:25:49,727
(CLARKE MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY)
1486
01:25:57,235 --> 01:26:00,155
(HANGERS RATTLING)
1487
01:26:01,197 --> 01:26:02,448
What a year to resign.
1488
01:26:05,577 --> 01:26:07,245
CLARKE: Which is gonna come
as a shock
1489
01:26:07,287 --> 01:26:08,997
to just about everyone?
1490
01:26:10,999 --> 01:26:12,917
I... I don't know, I suppose so.
1491
01:26:14,919 --> 01:26:17,672
There was no single moment.
It was just...
1492
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,719
um, this overwhelming...
1493
01:26:25,054 --> 01:26:28,474
feeling that, um...
1494
01:26:28,558 --> 01:26:32,103
that if something else happened,
something else that was...
1495
01:26:33,104 --> 01:26:35,607
big or difficult,
1496
01:26:35,690 --> 01:26:37,942
that I wouldn't have enough
in the tank
1497
01:26:38,026 --> 01:26:39,235
to do a good job.
1498
01:26:41,196 --> 01:26:43,281
CLARKE: Have you ever thought
about sort of reviewing
1499
01:26:43,323 --> 01:26:45,491
your processes
in those instances
1500
01:26:45,575 --> 01:26:47,035
where you could have maybe...
1501
01:26:47,911 --> 01:26:49,412
shared a bit of that workload?
1502
01:26:52,874 --> 01:26:55,126
Did you just try
and tell me to delegate?
1503
01:26:55,210 --> 01:26:57,879
(CLARKE LAUGHS)
1504
01:26:57,962 --> 01:27:01,507
- In a fairly subtle way, yeah.
- It wasn't subtle.
1505
01:27:01,591 --> 01:27:03,843
It was like
a full-blown mansplain.
1506
01:27:03,927 --> 01:27:05,970
CLARKE: But do you think
that's been part of the problem?
1507
01:27:06,012 --> 01:27:08,806
Not being able
to delegate some of the...
1508
01:27:08,890 --> 01:27:11,100
Well, because you really go in
boots and all.
1509
01:27:12,477 --> 01:27:14,979
Your own staff members
gave you a stethoscope...
1510
01:27:15,063 --> 01:27:16,481
(CHUCKLES)
1511
01:27:16,564 --> 01:27:18,858
- ...in response to your...
- Time is not helping you.
1512
01:27:18,942 --> 01:27:20,568
CLARKE: No, I mean I know.
But it's serious, though.
1513
01:27:20,652 --> 01:27:22,862
No, no,
because those actually...
1514
01:27:22,946 --> 01:27:24,739
There's things
about the ongoing job.
1515
01:27:24,822 --> 01:27:27,992
It's not that just
if something bad happens,
1516
01:27:28,034 --> 01:27:30,328
I don't have enough
to keep going.
1517
01:27:30,411 --> 01:27:33,498
It's the cumulative effect
of everything as well.
1518
01:27:33,539 --> 01:27:36,709
It's almost the politics...
(CHUCKLES)
1519
01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:38,836
...that I find...
1520
01:27:39,963 --> 01:27:42,840
yeah, pretty unrelenting.
1521
01:27:46,636 --> 01:27:49,055
I just know I'm gonna find
the next year hard.
1522
01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:51,975
Mm.
1523
01:27:52,016 --> 01:27:57,272
Going from full speed
all of the time to nothing.
1524
01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:06,781
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1525
01:28:07,448 --> 01:28:12,537
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1526
01:28:12,620 --> 01:28:14,289
And so today, I'm announcing
1527
01:28:14,372 --> 01:28:16,708
that I will not
be seeking re-election.
1528
01:28:18,918 --> 01:28:20,962
And that my term
as Prime Minister
1529
01:28:21,045 --> 01:28:24,382
will conclude no later
than the seventh of February.
1530
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:28,219
REPORTER: Walking away
from the most powerful job
1531
01:28:28,261 --> 01:28:29,804
in New Zealand politics,
1532
01:28:29,887 --> 01:28:32,807
bowing out nine months
before the election.
1533
01:28:34,017 --> 01:28:37,729
(INAUDIBLE)
1534
01:28:37,770 --> 01:28:42,108
(YELLS, CHUCKLES)
1535
01:28:43,234 --> 01:28:44,986
- Cheers!
- Cheers!
1536
01:28:45,069 --> 01:28:47,071
- Cheers!
- Cheers! Cheers!
1537
01:28:47,113 --> 01:28:49,032
(NEVE MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY)
1538
01:28:49,073 --> 01:28:53,786
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1539
01:28:59,417 --> 01:29:01,085
JACINDA: Mr. Speaker,
when it came time
1540
01:29:01,127 --> 01:29:03,338
to pen these words,
my father suggested
1541
01:29:03,421 --> 01:29:04,422
that I go back,
1542
01:29:04,505 --> 01:29:08,593
and look at the first ones
I shared in this House.
1543
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,973
I was 28 years old.
1544
01:29:14,057 --> 01:29:17,435
If I'm honest,
I was probably more
1545
01:29:17,518 --> 01:29:20,021
than a little shocked
to be here.
1546
01:29:20,938 --> 01:29:24,025
A feeling that even
after 15 years,
1547
01:29:24,108 --> 01:29:26,027
never quite left me.
1548
01:29:28,654 --> 01:29:31,282
Politics has never been
a tick list for me.
1549
01:29:31,366 --> 01:29:33,451
It's always been about progress.
1550
01:29:33,493 --> 01:29:37,163
Sometimes you can measure it
and sometimes you can't.
1551
01:29:39,457 --> 01:29:42,543
To my family,
people knew we were connected
1552
01:29:42,627 --> 01:29:44,337
and you copped a lot of flak.
1553
01:29:45,963 --> 01:29:48,216
Clarke, not many politicians
1554
01:29:48,299 --> 01:29:50,134
have a partner,
that when they say,
1555
01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:52,345
"I'm thinking
of leaving politics," reply,
1556
01:29:52,428 --> 01:29:53,971
"I think you should stay."
1557
01:29:54,055 --> 01:29:56,224
(PARLIAMENT MEMBERS CHUCKLE)
1558
01:29:56,307 --> 01:29:58,017
JACINDA:
Thank you for all your patience,
1559
01:29:58,101 --> 01:29:59,560
your love, and support.
1560
01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:02,980
To my darling girl, Neve.
1561
01:30:03,022 --> 01:30:05,733
Gosh, I love how independent
you are already.
1562
01:30:05,817 --> 01:30:06,984
(PARLIAMENT MEMBERS CHUCKLE)
1563
01:30:07,068 --> 01:30:08,486
JACINDA: Means you won't grow up
being known
1564
01:30:08,528 --> 01:30:12,198
as the ex-Prime Minister's
daughter, but rather,
1565
01:30:12,281 --> 01:30:15,326
I will happily be known
as Neve's mum.
1566
01:30:16,577 --> 01:30:18,871
(PARLIAMENT MEMBERS CHEERING,
APPLAUDING)
1567
01:30:18,955 --> 01:30:20,832
JACINDA: Now, I cannot determine
what will define
1568
01:30:20,873 --> 01:30:23,668
my time in this place,
but I do hope
1569
01:30:23,751 --> 01:30:26,421
I've demonstrated
something else entirely.
1570
01:30:26,504 --> 01:30:30,341
That you can be
anxious, sensitive, kind,
1571
01:30:30,425 --> 01:30:32,385
and wear your heart
on your sleeve.
1572
01:30:32,468 --> 01:30:34,387
You can be a mother or not.
1573
01:30:37,140 --> 01:30:40,518
You can be a nerd,
a crier, a hugger.
1574
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:43,020
You can be all of these things.
1575
01:30:43,104 --> 01:30:47,316
And not only can you be here,
you can lead...
1576
01:30:48,109 --> 01:30:50,111
just like me.
1577
01:30:50,194 --> 01:30:54,866
Thank you. You're so kind.
Thank you so much.
1578
01:30:54,907 --> 01:30:57,743
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1579
01:30:57,827 --> 01:30:59,412
- CLARKE: Job done.
- Job done.
1580
01:31:01,122 --> 01:31:02,457
CLARKE: What's next?
1581
01:31:04,792 --> 01:31:06,210
CLARKE:
Cup of tea and a lie down.
1582
01:31:08,045 --> 01:31:11,507
INTERVIEWER:
Well, it's been what,
almost two weeks since...
1583
01:31:11,549 --> 01:31:14,302
(CHUCKLES)
...you shocked the nation.
1584
01:31:15,720 --> 01:31:17,138
What made you do that?
1585
01:31:17,805 --> 01:31:20,266
JACINDA: (CHUCKLING)
1586
01:31:31,027 --> 01:31:32,361
(CHUCKLES)
1587
01:31:36,157 --> 01:31:39,577
I got a lift with Clarke down
to the waterfront.
1588
01:31:39,660 --> 01:31:41,245
We went for a walk.
1589
01:31:42,079 --> 01:31:44,457
And it was, yeah, it was gone.
1590
01:31:45,124 --> 01:31:46,292
Just that...
1591
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:49,420
that weight...
1592
01:31:50,254 --> 01:31:53,424
uh, that just sits there
all of the time,
1593
01:31:53,508 --> 01:31:56,427
that at any moment
you might be called upon
1594
01:31:56,511 --> 01:31:58,262
because something might happen,
1595
01:31:58,304 --> 01:32:01,807
or just that constant sense
of responsibility.
1596
01:32:02,475 --> 01:32:05,603
Uh, it just went straight away.
1597
01:32:06,103 --> 01:32:09,065
Mm. It surprised me.
1598
01:32:09,565 --> 01:32:10,566
Mm.
1599
01:32:11,651 --> 01:32:12,818
You know, since in Wellington
1600
01:32:12,902 --> 01:32:14,278
there were some surfers
who were out,
1601
01:32:14,320 --> 01:32:18,115
there's this one guy who's got
the back of his van open,
1602
01:32:18,199 --> 01:32:20,284
and he just yells,
"Hey, young lovers!"
1603
01:32:20,368 --> 01:32:22,119
And... (LAUGHS)
1604
01:32:22,161 --> 01:32:24,372
And I thought, "Oh my gosh,
I can't remember
1605
01:32:24,455 --> 01:32:26,123
the last time
I was called young."
1606
01:32:26,165 --> 01:32:27,959
(NEVE YELLS, MUMBLES)
1607
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,211
JACINDA: I didn't feel like
I looked that way anymore.
1608
01:32:30,294 --> 01:32:32,129
I felt like I looked
like I carried the weight
1609
01:32:32,213 --> 01:32:33,714
of the world on my shoulders.
1610
01:32:33,798 --> 01:32:36,384
♪ (“THE AIR THAT I BREATHE”
BY THE HOLLIES PLAYING) ♪
1611
01:32:36,467 --> 01:32:38,344
CLARKE:
Oh, that's awesome, Neve!
1612
01:32:38,427 --> 01:32:40,721
It is! It's working!
1613
01:32:40,805 --> 01:32:43,224
CLARKE: It's working. Just keep
running, Mum. Don't stop.
1614
01:32:44,016 --> 01:32:45,977
(CHUCKLES)
1615
01:32:46,018 --> 01:32:47,812
Something about the way
he yelled it,
1616
01:32:47,853 --> 01:32:50,314
I thought,
"Man, do we look different?"
1617
01:32:50,356 --> 01:32:51,524
(CHUCKLES)
1618
01:32:51,607 --> 01:32:52,650
(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1619
01:32:52,733 --> 01:32:55,653
JACINDA: I come from the bottom
of the world.
1620
01:32:55,695 --> 01:32:57,905
I was lucky enough
to be prime minister
1621
01:32:57,989 --> 01:33:00,491
of that beautiful country
for five years.
1622
01:33:00,533 --> 01:33:03,119
♪ (SONG CONTINUES) ♪
1623
01:33:04,662 --> 01:33:07,164
JACINDA: I unexpectedly
found myself as leader,
1624
01:33:07,790 --> 01:33:09,750
and soon after found myself
1625
01:33:09,834 --> 01:33:11,794
with a bit
of a surprise pregnancy.
1626
01:33:13,921 --> 01:33:19,176
I was and still am
an incredibly normal person,
1627
01:33:19,260 --> 01:33:22,680
plagued with imposter syndrome
and self-doubt,
1628
01:33:22,763 --> 01:33:26,726
who just happened to find myself
in an extraordinary position.
1629
01:33:26,809 --> 01:33:30,521
I am living, breathing,
incredibly flawed proof
1630
01:33:30,605 --> 01:33:33,899
that you underestimate
what you are capable of
1631
01:33:33,983 --> 01:33:35,234
until you are doing it.
1632
01:33:35,318 --> 01:33:36,694
(GUESTS CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1633
01:33:36,777 --> 01:33:40,197
♪ Sometimes ♪
1634
01:33:40,239 --> 01:33:44,702
♪ All I need is
The air that I breathe ♪
1635
01:33:44,744 --> 01:33:48,706
♪ And to love you ♪
1636
01:33:48,748 --> 01:33:52,960
♪ All I need is
The air that I breathe ♪
1637
01:33:53,044 --> 01:33:55,546
♪ Yes, to love you... ♪
1638
01:33:55,588 --> 01:33:58,090
REPORTER:
She has become a global symbol
1639
01:33:58,174 --> 01:34:00,051
of compassion, resilience,
1640
01:34:00,092 --> 01:34:02,762
hope, and bold,
and decisive action.
1641
01:34:02,845 --> 01:34:07,308
♪ (ELECTRONIC GUITAR PLAYING) ♪
1642
01:34:08,225 --> 01:34:09,560
JACINDA:
Kia ora and good evening.
1643
01:34:09,644 --> 01:34:11,479
It is my pleasure to be here.
1644
01:34:13,898 --> 01:34:16,317
HOST: Tonight, we have
Jacinda with us,
1645
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:17,777
and the United States
has borrowed her
1646
01:34:17,860 --> 01:34:18,819
for a long stay,
1647
01:34:18,903 --> 01:34:20,655
so we're grateful
to have you here.
1648
01:34:20,738 --> 01:34:22,073
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1649
01:34:22,114 --> 01:34:23,991
GIRL: Thank you, thank you.
1650
01:34:24,700 --> 01:34:25,868
Yes, yes.
1651
01:34:26,619 --> 01:34:28,412
JACINDA:
When your own constitution
1652
01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:29,580
was adopted,
1653
01:34:29,622 --> 01:34:32,458
Benjamin Franklin was asked
what had been created,
1654
01:34:32,541 --> 01:34:37,171
and he replied, quote,
"A republic if you can keep it."
1655
01:34:37,755 --> 01:34:40,508
If you can keep it.
1656
01:34:42,009 --> 01:34:45,596
And the overwhelming challenges
that lay in front of us,
1657
01:34:45,638 --> 01:34:49,016
and our constant efforts
to reach into the systems,
1658
01:34:49,100 --> 01:34:51,018
the structures, the power,
1659
01:34:51,102 --> 01:34:56,440
don't overlook the simple act
right in front of you.
1660
01:34:56,524 --> 01:35:01,445
The impact that we each have
as individuals.
1661
01:35:01,487 --> 01:35:03,114
KAMALA HARRIS:
The former president had said
1662
01:35:03,155 --> 01:35:04,448
that climate change is a hoax.
1663
01:35:04,532 --> 01:35:06,951
JACINDA: The disinformation
will only increase.
1664
01:35:07,034 --> 01:35:10,955
The pull into the comfort
of our tribes will be magnified.
1665
01:35:11,038 --> 01:35:12,665
But we have it within us
1666
01:35:12,748 --> 01:35:15,835
to ensure that
that doesn't mean we fracture.
1667
01:35:18,838 --> 01:35:20,715
We are at a precipice.
1668
01:35:21,799 --> 01:35:23,676
But I'm an optimist at heart.
1669
01:35:23,759 --> 01:35:28,806
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1670
01:35:33,602 --> 01:35:38,315
(DOG BARKS)
1671
01:35:39,567 --> 01:35:41,110
JACINDA:
Shackleton had this saying...
1672
01:35:44,029 --> 01:35:46,699
"Optimism is true
moral courage."
1673
01:35:50,786 --> 01:35:53,789
You know it's a state
of mind that...
1674
01:35:54,832 --> 01:35:56,333
helps to motivate.
1675
01:35:58,169 --> 01:36:00,421
That helps you to push through.
1676
01:36:05,134 --> 01:36:08,179
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1677
01:36:13,100 --> 01:36:15,728
JACINDA: I always got the sense
that we would treat people
1678
01:36:15,811 --> 01:36:19,565
who would describe themselves
in that way as if they're naive.
1679
01:36:23,319 --> 01:36:24,987
As if they're dreamers.
1680
01:36:32,411 --> 01:36:35,831
Optimism is not naivety,
it's hope.
1681
01:36:44,715 --> 01:36:50,054
We have war raging,
the ongoing challenge
1682
01:36:50,137 --> 01:36:52,139
and threat of climate change...
1683
01:36:54,517 --> 01:36:56,936
rapid technological development.
1684
01:37:01,524 --> 01:37:04,109
It is hard not to switch
on the news some days
1685
01:37:04,193 --> 01:37:06,403
and just think the world
is a dumpster fire.
1686
01:37:10,157 --> 01:37:12,326
How do we shine a light
on the humanity
1687
01:37:12,409 --> 01:37:15,871
that I know is still there
in amongst everything else?
1688
01:37:16,372 --> 01:37:17,456
Mm.
1689
01:37:17,540 --> 01:37:19,792
That's what keeps me
going anyway.
1690
01:37:20,918 --> 01:37:26,674
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1691
01:37:30,177 --> 01:37:31,637
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1692
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:34,181
JACINDA: My life and my world
is very small here
1693
01:37:34,265 --> 01:37:35,808
and I like that a lot.
1694
01:37:35,891 --> 01:37:37,351
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
1695
01:37:37,434 --> 01:37:39,270
When we recognized you
from across the street,
1696
01:37:39,353 --> 01:37:40,688
I was like, "My goodness."
1697
01:37:40,771 --> 01:37:43,065
(FAINT CHATTER)
1698
01:37:43,107 --> 01:37:44,149
- JACINDA: Hi.
- (DOOR CLOSING)
1699
01:37:44,233 --> 01:37:46,652
- (NEVE YELLS, MUMBLES)
- (JACINDA CHUCKLES)
1700
01:37:46,735 --> 01:37:48,237
NEVE: Yay!
1701
01:37:48,279 --> 01:37:52,074
JACINDA: Since we've been away,
it's actually just felt quieter.
1702
01:37:55,369 --> 01:37:57,746
And I think that's probably
what we needed.
1703
01:37:57,788 --> 01:37:59,498
- How's he doing?
- NEVE: Good.
1704
01:38:01,041 --> 01:38:03,210
JACINDA: So, this is just
a moment in time.
1705
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:06,130
CLARKE: Hey, Mum.
1706
01:38:08,173 --> 01:38:09,174
(KISSES)
1707
01:38:09,633 --> 01:38:10,759
(FAINT CHATTER)
1708
01:38:12,469 --> 01:38:13,554
JACINDA: But...
1709
01:38:18,934 --> 01:38:21,562
yeah, nowhere will ever
be like home.
1710
01:38:21,645 --> 01:38:24,023
♪ (“DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER”
BY CROWDED HOUSE PLAYING) ♪
1711
01:38:24,106 --> 01:38:25,274
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
1712
01:38:34,950 --> 01:38:40,164
♪ There is freedom within
There is freedom without ♪
1713
01:38:40,247 --> 01:38:43,876
♪ Try to catch the deluge
In a paper cup ♪
1714
01:38:47,171 --> 01:38:52,176
♪ There's a battle ahead
Many battles are lost ♪
1715
01:38:52,259 --> 01:38:54,386
♪ But you'll never see the end
Of the road ♪
1716
01:38:54,470 --> 01:38:57,848
♪ While you're travelling
With me ♪
1717
01:38:57,932 --> 01:39:03,228
♪ Hey, now, hey, now
Don't dream it's over ♪
1718
01:39:03,312 --> 01:39:09,068
♪ Hey, now, hey, now
When the world comes in ♪
1719
01:39:09,151 --> 01:39:15,532
♪ They come, they come
To build a wall between us ♪
1720
01:39:15,574 --> 01:39:18,577
♪ We know, they won't win ♪
1721
01:39:22,456 --> 01:39:27,586
♪ Now I'm towing my car
There's a hole in the roof ♪
1722
01:39:27,670 --> 01:39:29,797
♪ My possessions
Are causing me suspicion ♪
1723
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:31,966
♪ But there's no proof ♪
1724
01:39:34,259 --> 01:39:39,640
♪ In the paper today
Tales of war and of waste ♪
1725
01:39:39,723 --> 01:39:43,394
♪ But you turn right over
To the TV page ♪
1726
01:39:44,770 --> 01:39:51,068
♪ Hey, now, hey, now
Don't dream it's over ♪
1727
01:39:51,151 --> 01:39:56,490
♪ Hey, now, hey, now
When the world comes in ♪
1728
01:39:56,573 --> 01:40:02,955
♪ They come, they come
To build a wall between us ♪
1729
01:40:03,038 --> 01:40:05,541
♪ We know, they won't win ♪
1730
01:40:07,251 --> 01:40:09,545
♪ Hey, now, hey, now ♪
1731
01:40:12,923 --> 01:40:16,427
♪ Hey, now, hey, now ♪
1732
01:40:17,511 --> 01:40:18,929
♪ Don't let them win ♪
1733
01:40:18,971 --> 01:40:20,973
♪ Hey, now, hey, now ♪
1734
01:40:23,350 --> 01:40:24,852
♪ Don't let them win ♪
1735
01:40:29,356 --> 01:40:31,608
♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
1736
01:40:34,778 --> 01:40:36,363
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1737
01:41:59,404 --> 01:42:00,989
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪