Helen Clark
Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark ONZ SSIis the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. As Prime Minister she served three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008 and was the first woman elected at a general election as the Prime Minister, and was the fifth longest serving person to hold that office. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position, since 2009. In April 2016, she declared...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 February 1950
CityHamilton, New Zealand
I could really feel the emotion in the air and I will be thinking about the sailors tonight when I get back home and they are still out there and will be for a many days.
I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.
I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,
I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.
It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?
The service is designed to be a celebration of David's life with tributes from a wide range of family, friends and contributions from groups David spent his life working with,
The task now is for arrangements to be made which will ensure stable government in New Zealand for the next three years.
As I said on election night, the result of voting appeared to give the Labor Party the opportunity to begin negotiations to form a new government.
Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.
Winston has never taken any great interest in foreign policy, so that one looks a bit more remote.