New Zealand is just days away from a general election that could upset those Aussies who have for the past six years enjoyed wistfully asking “Why can’t we be more like New Zealand?”, often as they cradled a craft beer in a laneway built last century by free prison labour.
Centre-left NZ Labour came to power in 2017, five weeks after Jacinda Ardern had been handed the reins of a party that was not projected to win. But she did win and the rest has been sometimes fittingly mythologised.
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