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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1350/
- Published: 2025-11-30T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-30T17:30:50.000Z
- Description: His deputy, Carmel Sepuloni, in a forceful opening speech, added a Labour word from a recent but distant past: “New Zealand can be fairer, kinder and more united than it is today.”
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> National has never led a one-term government. The last Labour one was in 1972-75, when the leader and Prime Minister Norman Kirk died in office. New Zealanders normally take time to turn away from our governing masters.  
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> Labour finds itself in the game through a combination of an incumbent’s economy policy that even coalition partner party leader Winston Peters says is not working, stubborn cost-of-living pressures on the public, the implosion of Labour’s frenemy Te Pāti Māori and a possible neutering of the dangers of a limited capital gains tax. \[...\]  
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> \[Labour leader Chris Hipkins said\], “New Zealand simply cannot afford three more years of National. We can’t afford the division. We can’t afford the blame and we can’t afford the negativity of this government.” \[...\]  
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> His deputy, Carmel Sepuloni, in a forceful opening speech, added a Labour word from a recent but distant past: “New Zealand can be fairer, ***kinder***, and more united than it is today.” \[...\]  
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> Unsurprisingly, Sepuloni sees Hipkins as central to Labour and its supporters overturning the forces of darkness. Against a government she labelled intent on dividing the country, “key to defeating them will be the fact we have a leader in Chris Hipkins who embodies … unity.” \[...\]  
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> “We must remind Aotearoa that Labour is the party that holds aspiration for all communities and is committed to creating opportunities for all New Zealanders.  
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> “Labour’s story has always been about hope, aspiration, and opportunity.”  
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> Labour talking aspiration.  
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> She returned to the word as she wrapped up.  
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> “Today, I want us to remember that our job is not just to oppose – it is to aspire and inspire. To lift our gaze from the daily headlines and look to the horizon.  
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