The Left Loses Badly Down Under

New Zealand’s high-tax, pro-lockdown party is smashed at the polls.

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Voters walk past ‘Vote Yes’ and ‘Vote No’ signs at the Old Australian Parliament House during The Voice referendum in Canberra, Australia, October 14, 2023.

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Remember Jacinda Ardern? The “woke” prime minister of New Zealand was applauded in elite circles for imposing a draconian lockdown in order to pursue a hopeless “zero Covid” policy. She turned her country into a “hermit kingdom” to the point that more than 15,000 New Zealanders were trapped abroad and not allowed to return for two years. In some cases, children weren’t allowed to see parents on their deathbed. Ardern finally had to abandon her maniacal stance as Covid began to spread throughout the island.

Ardern had other crazy policies, including a mad 20-year plan for government power in New Zealand to be shared 50–50 with the native Maori population, a largely mixed-race group that is at most 16 percent of the population.

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John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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Wendell Cox

Wendell Cox is a senior fellow at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

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