Winston Peters says his country’s pandemic royal commission will ask hard questions about Jacinda Ardern’s tough approach.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has blasted the Australian government’s inquiry into the handling of the pandemic while warning Canberra against taking further steps to make deporting New Zealand-born criminals easier.
“You guys haven’t had a review, you’ve had a whitewash,” Peters said in Auckland about the Albanese government’s COVID inquiry released last month.“And I’m out to make sure it doesn’t happen in my country ... We are going to get to the truth.” “The cost to New Zealand is that we are still struggling to come out of that malaise. That is accentuated by our massive levels of truancy. If we hadn’t closed our primary schools, that would not have happened. But there’s an unwillingness to say we got it wrong.”
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