Chris Hipkins
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455 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Chris Hipkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that was a moment.
I still remember that phone call vividly.
I remember staring into space for about 20 minutes after that thinking, did that just happen?
And then, of course, it was still up to the Labour MPs to choose who they wanted to be the leader.
And I put my hand up and ultimately it was unanimous.
I got the full support of everybody.
That was a real moment.
And I probably wasn't as prepared for it because up until before Christmas, and bearing in mind I became Prime Minister just after Christmas, it wasn't even on my radar or something that I would have put my hand up to do.
I loved the job, but I was still, let's be clear, I was still kind of learning the job when the election rolled around and then we lost the election.
So I'll know, you know, if we win the next election, that's my goal.
I'll know a lot more about what to expect.
I'll be much better prepared for it than I was last time.
Yeah, we live in an age of rage.
And the way we consume information has changed so much in the last few years.
And I think the right have adapted to that far better than the left.
So the right wing election campaign now is all about making people angry.
And so if you look at what they do, they make people angry and they exploit that anger for their political purposes.
On the left, we haven't yet developed, and this is not just in New Zealand, it's around the world, we haven't developed enough of a strong antidote to that.
So if you go back to what we were trying to do in our last government, we talked a lot about kindness in our last government, and that's almost been weaponised against us.
How is it that...
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