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With an election year upon this is an interesting look at the life experience of Ministers in the current Government!

Commercial experience - zero!!!!

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

After graduating from Waikato University with a Bachelor of Communications Degree, Ms Ardern became a researcher for Phil Goff and then worked in the office of Helen Clark. In 2005 she went to Britain and worked in the cabinet office of Tony Blair. Come 2007 she was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. (Remember ten comrade mentions in about five minutes). In 2008 she entered our Parliament as a list MP.

So no experience in the outside world. Ardern has spent all her working life in a political bubble. A self-awarded degree in the study of hugging and kissing.

Grant Robertson

• Finance – Minister
• Sport and Recreation – Minister
• Earthquake Commission – Minister Responsible
• Arts, Culture and Heritage – Associate Minister

Robertson studied politics at Otago University graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1995. In 1997 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade. He was then posted to the United Nations and on his return, like Ardern, worked for Helen Clark. Following this, he took a business development role with the University of Otago. He entered Parliament in 2008.

So no experience in the outside world. With experience in business development, one might wonder why business confidence is so low.

Chris Hipkins

• Education – Minister
• State Services – Minister
• Leader of the House
• Ministerial Services – Minister Responsible

Completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Victoria University majoring in Politics and Criminology. He then worked in the industry training sector. Before becoming an MP he worked at Parliament including, surprise, surprise, in the office of Helen Clark. He entered Parliament in 2008.

No experience of the outside world. With experience in the training sector, it’s a pity he didn’t train his bosses in the teachers’ union to believe in charter schools. Mustn’t upset Mummy.

Andrew Little

• Justice – Minister
• Courts – Minister
• GCSB – Minister Responsible
• NZSIS – Minister Responsible
• Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations – Minister
• Pike River Re-entry – Minister Responsible

Little studied at University qualifying as a lawyer and then worked in the union movement until he entered Parliament in 2011.

No experience in the outside world. Well versed in the dark arts of the nasty left.

David Clark

• Health – Minister
• Finance – Associate Minister

Clark ran a University of Otago residential college, worked as a Presbyterian Minister and as a Treasury Analyst.

Again, no experience in the outside world. Might have done well preaching in the pulpit, not so good in Parliament.

Phil Twyford

• Economic Development – Minister
• Transport – Minister
• Urban Development – Minister

Twyford studied politics at Auckland University then worked as a journalist and union organiser before becoming the founding Director of Oxfam NZ. He worked for Oxfam in Washington and returned to New Zealand entering Parliament in 2008.

Unsurprisingly, no experience in the outside world. He should transport himself to someplace else.

Nanaia Mahuta

• Maori Development – Minister
• Local Government – Minister
• Environment – Associate Minister
• Housing – Associate Minister
• Trade and Export Growth – Associate Minister

A mother and constituent before entering Parliament.

Obviously no experience of the outside world. About all you can say.

Stuart Nash

• Police – Minister
• Fisheries – Minister
• Revenue – Minister
• Small Business – Minister

Prior to entering politics Nash worked in various senior management roles in small and large businesses in both the public and private sectors. He has worked in IT, sales & marketing, business strategy, resource planning, strategic planning and general management. He has a number of degrees from both Wellington and Canterbury University.

Yes, finally found someone who has some outside world experience. Unfortunately, it hasn’t benefited him as a politician. His sales and marketing expertise was found wanting in the silly gun buyback exercise.

Jenny Salesa

• Building and Construction – Minister
• Customs – Minister
• Ethnic Communities – Minister
• Education – Associate Minister
• Health – Associate Minister

Salesa has over twenty years of Public Service experience with the Ministry of Health, Pacific Island Affairs and the Tertiary Education Commission.

Back to no outside world experience. Maybe hammering away but unlikely to nail anything successfully as a result.

Kris Faafoi

• Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media – Minister
• Commerce and Consumer Affairs – Minister
• Government Digital Services – Minister
• Housing – Associate Minister

Faafoi worked as a journalist for TVNZ and the BBC prior to entering Parliament.

Definitely no outside world experience. Despite a career in fake news, he’s been a capable Minister.

Damien O’Connor

• Agriculture – Minister
• Biosecurity – Minister
• Food Safety – Minister
• Rural Communities – Minister
• Trade and Export Growth – Minister of State

O’Connor has a background in farming and adventure tourism and is passionate about rural communities.

I’ve found the second one with outside world experience. If he is passionate about rural communities he needs to verbalise it better. Perhaps talk to his Boss about a degree in communications.

Carmel Sepuloni

• Social Development – Minister
• Disability Issues – Minister
• Arts, Culture and Heritage – Associate Minister
• Pacific Peoples – Associate Minister

Sepuloni worked across the health and education sectors before entering Parliament.

It’s getting repetitive. No outside world experience. Her goal is to keep welfare numbers up in order to maintain her party’s core support.

David Parker

• Attorney-General
• Environment – Minister
• Trade and Export Growth – Minister
• Finance – Associate Minister

Parker is another to attend the University of Otago. He qualified as a lawyer and worked in law.

Painful though it is to say it, no outside world experience. (These words are now appearing automatically on my screen).

Shane Jones

• Forestry – Minister
• Infrastructure – Minister
• Regional Economic Development – Minister
• Finance – Associate Minister
• State-Owned Enterprises – Associate Minister
• Transport – Associate Minister

Jones studied economics and politics at Auckland University. He also studied in Australia and at Harvard. He was Chairman of the Waitangi Fisheries Commission.

Here come those words again. No outside world experience. Does watching porn count?

Kelvin Davis

• Corrections – Minister
• Maori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti – Minister
• Tourism – Minister
• Education – Associate Minister

Davis is a former teacher and school principal.

This is getting boring. No outside world experience. Wants to reduce the prison population so as not to offend his party’s core constituency.

Eugenie Sage

• Conservation – Minister
• Land Information – Minister
• Environment – Associate Minister

Sage did law at Auckland University and journalism at Canterbury. Her first job was Information Officer for the NZ Fire Service on the West Coast. Next came a research position with the Labour Party and by the late 1980’s she was press secretary to guess who – Helen Clark. She was spokesperson for Forest and Bird and then an Environment Canterbury councillor before entering Parliament in 2011.

A lot to talk about there but no outside world experience. She is averse to job creation in case a snail might be killed or a kayaker might like to use a river.

Ron Mark

• Defence – Minister
• Veterans – Minister

Mark served in the Army before entering Parliament. He was also Mayor of Carterton.

Oh dear, no outside world experience. One could say he was well qualified for his portfolio though.

Julie Anne Genter

• Health – Associate Minister
• Transport – Associate Minister
• Women – Minister

Genter was born in Los Angeles. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA and then studied politics at the Sciences Po Paris. She graduated from Auckland University with a Masters of Planning Practice with First Class Honours and then worked as a transport consultant working in transport economics and urban design.

Shall we be kind to this lady and credit her with a smidgenof outside world experience. It appears her experience in transport economics has led her to believe that the most economic means of transport is a bike.

Willie Jackson

Jackson has worked in many different fields. He has been a trade union organiser, record company executive, radio talkback host and urban Maori advocate.

Okay, maybe a sniff of some outside world experience. Not too keen to get cuzzie Shane’s nephews off the couch though as they might get upset and remain on the said sofa on Election Day meaning lost votes for the party.

Winston Peters.

• Deputy Prime Minister
• Foreign Affairs – Minister
• Disarmament and Arms Control – Minister
• State Owned Enterprises – Minister
• Racing – Minister

Peters has a degree in law and worked as a lawyer.

I’ll abbreviate-NOW. Masters degree in obfuscation with first-class honours.

So to sum up most have degrees which would appear to be their major achievement. It appears the country is being run mainly by either ex lawyers, unionists, teachers or civil servants. 

We cannot let these persons, lacking in ability in terms of their portfolios, have another three years. A look at the above makes it all too clear why the current term of this Government has resulted in the fiasco we have witnessed.

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