You really have to hand it to Jacinda Ardern: she’s brilliant at announcing things. Yesterday she announced that she will announce the date of the start of a trans-Tasman bubble on April 6. I kid you not.
Watching Stuff‘s commentary tells a story in itself. Waffle, prevarication, and nothing of any importance.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has arrived. The press conference is about to get underway.
Ardern is currently giving a rundown of the events she’s attending this week.
This week marks one year since NZ went into its level 4 lockdown, Ardern says. Ardern says we succeeded in what we needed to do which was to eliminate the virus. Our strategy remains the same.
We intend to vaccinate everyone who can be vaccinated, she says. 2021 is the year of possibilities.
Quarantine-free travel with Australia “is a priority”. She says this is important for business, tourism and for the families who are separated.”We know what it will mean for people.”
She says this travel corridor is “highly complex”.
Ardern is listing all the measures that must be in place for a safe travel bubble. These include making sure a response framework is fit for purpose, and that contact tracing is in place for those travellers from Aussie.
Cabinet will consider a date for the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble. They will announce the date on April 6.
For clarity, that’s the day Cabinet will announce the finalised date of the trans-Tasman bubble. Not the day the bubble will actually open.
Ardern is now answering media questions.“We don’t have a date for you,” she says.
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There you have it, a whole lot of twaddle then an announcement – of the date they will announce the date for a bubble.
Clearly, with a growing petition calling for the bubble, Labour have been forced into doing something. Unable to actually make a decision, they’ve put off making a decision until after Easter.
Why didn’t the hordes of journalists tear her apart for this sort of nonsense? An announcement of an announcement, just pathetic.
It’s like she spent the weekend on Dexys, brainstorming how to get to a trans-Tasman bubble, and then woke up today on a downer and realised all she’s got for an idea is an announcement of the date of the announcement of the date we can freely travel to Australia.
Do you feel like this is a big April Fool’s joke on the whole of New Zealand?
