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Balance
On the leg spreading Hipkins :
From political journalist Andrea Vance
“Like Ardern, he also likes to keep an iron grip on messaging and political communications, although is much more relaxed with reporters.
Despite promises this would be an open, transparent government, as state services and police minister, Hipkins has regularly rubbed up against the Official Information Act.
In October 2021, he alleged three women who travelled from Auckland to Northland, sparking an 11-day lockdown, had done so on false information. It was later revealed he knew officials’ mistakes were to blame but has not apologised to the women, nor corrected the record that they were gang-affiliated sex workers.
And it was Hipkins who first described the 1pm pandemic briefings as the “one source of truth”.
Then, there’s Charlotte Bellis.
Plenty more to come out of what the leg spreader is really like - a petty minded small thinker.
Hipkins is but a CHIP off the Old Ardern block.