文稿:傲雪
翻译:Darren
编辑:Tiffany
11月6日总理办公室消息，新西兰总理杰辛达.阿尔登今天在”2021年工党大会”上发表的讲话。
总理杰辛达.阿尔登说:”我将以我从未想过我会在工党大会上说的话开始，我很怀念这些回忆，我很怀这些回忆。我知道，因为它们表明了我们最近还在怀念其他的，那就是与我们的朋友、家人和全国各地的党员面对面的交流。没有人比我们的党员更了解这一点。
因此，我想首先对你们说：”谢谢你们！谢谢你们！ 几周来，你们代表国家的其他部分承担了一个的重担，这让人感觉无限期。你们维持着边界，留守家里，为保护你们的社区，同时也为保护新西兰的其他地区做出了很大牺牲。我知道，有时这将是一个异常孤独的环境。但请永远不要怀疑，你们所做的一切对新西兰产生了深远的影响。我以前在会议上谈到过我在这份工作中收到的许多信件。这是在我们这样大的国家担任总理的特权之一。我收到的许多信的开头都是 “我怀疑你会读到这个，但…..”。 我记得很多这样的信。我在大流行病期间收到的一封信件让我记忆犹新。那是一位重症监护医生写的，他们简单地写道：”在这次大流行中，你们所救的人比我整个职业生涯中所救的人还要多。” 我从来不认为这封信是指我的。我认为那封信是指我们的。因为我们所做的一切都不是由一个人完成的，而是由许多人完成的。整个团队有五百万人。自从病毒到达我们海岸的那一天起，我们所做的一切就是为了保护新西兰人的生命和生计。
总的来说，我们看到的病例、住院和死亡人数比经合组织的任何其他国家都少。我们还看到，经济不仅得以生存，而且事实上还在增长，并保持了人们的工作，就在本周，失业率创下了历史最低记录。 但这并不是说它没有代价。它给人们和企业带来了巨大的损失，特别是在最近几个月。但我知道，我们有能力继续通过这一艰难的过渡期向前迈进，进入一个新阶段。因此，我对整个新西兰，特别是对奥克兰说今天后更好的时代即将到来。
在未来几周内，随着更多的人接种疫苗，我们将看到我们社区的保护水平提高。事实上，我们有望成为世界上疫苗接种率最高的国家之一，已经超过了澳大利亚、美国、英国、法国、德国和爱尔兰等国家了。 而这带来了向新的COVID保护框架过渡的机会。这个新的系统将意味着企业有更多的确定性，他们可以继续营业。它将意味着不是每个COVID案件都会引发突然锁定的焦虑，但它也将意味着我们要继续认真对待COVID，并采取措施保护人们免受其害。这是一个扎根于我们可以开辟我们自己的道路和我们自己的反应的观点的计划。一个适合新西兰和我们人民的计划。 一旦这些变化得到巩固，它们将使我们有机会以谨慎和深思熟虑的方式，改变我们的一些其他设置。我们将着眼于我们的国际边界，利用家庭隔离作为一种方式，让更多的新西兰人与他们的亲人团聚，减轻MIQ的压力。
随着时间的推移，我们将有机会更广泛地开放，并欢迎那些我们已经习惯于分享我们的好客和国家的人回来。生活可能有一段时间是不同的。但它可以，而且会再次感到更加清楚在经历了如此多的混乱，如此多的焦虑之后，每个人都应该得到这些经验。 因此，在此期间，我们将继续坚定不移地采取应对措施，我们的应对措施已经开始向疫苗接种，而非倾斜于限制性措施。 因为我们是工党政府，我们将关注我们最脆弱的群体，也将加快毛利疫苗的接种率。我们将保护我们的卫生系统。我们将不断适应和发展，但我们将始终首先保护生命和生计。这就是政府衡量的标准。也是衡量工党政府的一个标准。但还有另一个衡量标准。这就是我们在这些困难时期所做的事情。COVID并没有使我们现有的任何挑战消失。事实上，它使其中一些挑战变得更糟。但是，尽管承担了我们一生中最严重的健康和经济挑战，我们并没有停止解决住房危机、儿童贫困、水质或气候变化等问题。仅举几例:
* 自从我们上任以来，我们已经创造了8591个公共住房空间，还有成千上万的空间正在建设中。
* 我们正在改革RMA，以加强建筑工作。
*我们监督了超过38,000个家庭的绝缘和供暖，这意味着更多的家庭可以保持温暖和干燥。
*我们努力构建一个全新的初级精神卫生保健水平，我们在前线服务方面的创纪录投资，每月约有 10，000 人到他们信任的当地卫生诊所获得支持。
* 我们为60万新西兰人提供更便宜的医生就诊服务，我们正在修复我们的医院，并培训更多的ICU护士。 * 我们一代人中对主要福利率的提升幅度最大，最终扭转了1991年的削减局面。
* 我们在学校推出了免费健康的午餐，今年有20万儿童从中受益。
在部长格兰特·罗伯逊（Grant Robertson）的坚定领导下，我们的经济运转着，GDP在上升，失业率在下降，我们的债务是经合组织中最低水平的，我们的出口增长也创下了历史新高。只会随着我们新的与英国自由贸易协定而继续增长。 虽然我们的失业率可能处于十多年来的最低水平，但我们仍计划继续重建和恢复，仅基础设施投资就达570亿纽币，准备在未来五年内推出。 但是，在我们进行重建时，必须站在中心位置的不仅是我们的人民，也是我们的环境。通过诸如自然工作等举措，我们正在改善害虫控制和恢复水道。但我们也需要对我们的环境进行系统性的改变。这就是三水的意义。
在三水问题上，我们正在修复摇摇欲坠的水管，如果不改变将导致纳税人的成本膨胀，水质下降，以及不可持续的污水排放。现状不是一种选择。离开现在的情况，就是谴责已经每年有34，000只奇异果从水中生病，继续生病。 缺乏基础设施， 这是对第一个购房者来说不论现在和将来将继续妨碍负担得起的自有住房选择。 它告诉那些关心我们的环境，并希望在我们的海滩上游泳的人，我们每年将看到超过3000起污水排放到我们的水道。 对于那些想取消三个水域的人， 我对他们说， 问题很明显， 现状不是一个选择。如果你担心失去公有制， 那就承诺像我们一样保留这些资产， 并支持立法来锁定这些资产，但不要假装没有问题。这并不是对现状不是一种选择的环境的唯一挑战。
今天，我们走到一起，在格拉斯哥召开的第26届缔约方会议也举行了世界领导人会议。 值得庆幸的是，我们已从一个对气候变化本身提出质疑的时代，转向一个我们必须对我们的雄心壮志和行动负责的时期。 我们有很多工作要做。但我仍然为能领导一个四年来比前几届政府加起来做得更多的政府而感到无比自豪，但这源于必要性。 我们只有很窄的窗口去做满足我们1.5度承诺所需的工作。我今年不能参加缔约方会议。作为亚太经合组织主席，我们的作用使我无法与我们的和平邻国站在一起，倡导我们的地区，并追究我们的责任。 但是，如果我在那里，提出一个问题，你的政府做了什么？
这就是我要说的;首先，我们建立了基础。我们通过了具有里程碑意义的《零碳法》，成立了气候委员会，并制定了碳预算。现在我们正采取下一步行动。我们要雄心勃勃。 我们已经设定了到2030年100%可再生电力的目标，我们正在投资这些举措来帮助我们实现这个目标。 我们希望我们的公共部门到2025年达到碳中和，我们也正在制定计划来达到这个水平。 但我们最大的问题在于我们生产食物、加工食物以及我们四处走动的方式。这就是为什么我们在减少农业甲烷的研究方面投入了大量资金，以及为什么我们与我们的农民达成了世界首要协议，既要降低价格，又要减少农业排放。 这就是为什么我们增加了40%的公共交通支出，引入了清洁的汽车标准，并激励了低排放和无排放的车辆。但我还要解释，虽然有些地区，如交通，我们正在追赶，但也有一些地区，我们也将领导。事实上，我们是世界上第一个通过法律确保金融机构披露并最终对气候相关风险和机遇采取行动的国家。而且，我们继续在国际上带头倡导取消矿物燃料补贴。
最后，我承诺，我们将尽自己的一份力量。因此，仅在过去几周内，我们对最脆弱国家的气候融资承诺就增加了四倍，达到13亿纽币，并通过到2030年将温室气体排放净额减少50%，增加了我们对全球应对气候变化努力的贡献。 毫无疑问，我们还有更多的事情要做。 但是，当我们回顾这一缔约方会议时，事实上，当我们回顾我们的无核时刻时，我想知道我们尽了一切可能。 不过，正如我在开始时所说，尽管你周围发生了什么事情，但政府中的很多事都是关于你做什么的。无论日复一日地带来什么，这个工党政府和我的动机并没有改变，是人尤其是我们的孩子。在这里，我们做了很多工作，还有许多工作要做。但是我们知道，儿童贫困问题尤其由于COVID而变得更加严重。封锁打击了每一个人，尤其是那些拥有最少的人。 我很自豪能成为引入为家庭工作制度的工党大家庭的一员。当时，这是几十年来对儿童政策最重大的变化，对儿童贫困产生了巨大影响。 它给了我们一个基础，可以在此基础上再接再厉，而且我们已经有了。当我们上任时，我们推出了最佳开始税收抵免，这项优惠承认孩子生命的前1000天至关重要，并且为有新生婴儿的家庭提供了额外的支持。我们增加了家庭税收抵免。 我们取消了工作税收抵免的工时测试。我们提高了孤儿津贴、无抚养儿童津贴和寄养津贴的费率。总的来说，这些变化帮助43300名儿童摆脱了贫困，并给家庭更多的选择。
我们需要继续前进，我们已作出承诺，在10年内将儿童贫困减半。自从我们上任以来，我们在我们制定的所有9项儿童贫困指标上都取得了积极进展。我们已经扭转了统计数据，显示孩子们做的更糟，而不是更好。 但我们永远不会说工作已经完成。 我们在这里做出的每一次改变，无论大小，都会有所作为。 在这里，我想与大家分享我们正在做出的下一个改变。为了认识到COVID对家庭的影响和生活成本的增加，我们正在增加家庭税收抵免，使346，000个家庭的生活水平将平均每周提高20纽币。家庭税收抵免应调整为CPI。
但是，我们在四年内增加了2.72亿纽币的额外投资，以增加投资金额，并将减排率从25改为27，以覆盖最需要的人。因此，家庭税收抵免的税率将每周增加14.69纽币，随后的儿童税率将每周增加12.83纽币。由于我们的额外投资，估计将有6000名儿童摆脱贫困。虽然我们在2020年将孤儿津贴、无抚养儿童津贴和寄养津贴的费率提高了25纽币，但我们会每周再增加5纽币。最佳开始付款也将增加相同的金额。
由于这一一揽子计划，从明年4月起，数十万家庭的收入将得到有意义的提高。给卡梅尔 · 塞普洛尼和大卫 · 帕克特别感谢您在这个问题上所做的工作。在这个困难时期，这只是我们可以为家庭做的一件额外的事情。 我想今天完成我开始的地方。 这就是承认工党团队今天远程聚集在一起。 你会注意到我给你的地址比平时短了一点这是因为在这个变焦世界中，虽然我们彼此距离更远，但我们想尝试构建我们最缺少的东西。互动，和一两个很好的职权范围。但是，如果没有个人感谢信息，我无法也不会结束。 最近我在这份工作中注意到的一件事是，当你有机会与另一位世界领袖交谈时，谈话很快就会转向过去十二个月是多么困难。 这对我们所有人来说都是一次共同的经历。没有人不受影响。事实上，双横向有成为集体治疗的风险。
但是，虽然这次可能是一个独特的，但我从来没有，从来没有感到孤独。 内阁和核心小组都没有。
您是我们团队中价值500万的成员。否则我们不会在这里，分享我们最近的旅程中采取的一些步骤，或者我们未来的目标。是你们让我们来到这里，让我们在扮演的角色上充满动力。
事实上，我们议会中没有一个人能独自发挥这些特权作用。在我们参加核心小组会议之前，我们是在 LEC，我们是志愿者。我们来到这里是因为你们对我们在议会中代表你们的信念和决心。所以代表核心小组，谢谢你！我们希望，我们将继续让你感到自豪”。
New Zealand Prime Minister’s speech at the “2021 Labour Party Conference”。
“I’m going to start with something that I never thought I would say at a Labour Party conference.
I miss remits.
I miss remits, because they are indicative of something else that I know we have all missed of late, and that is being face to face with our friends, families, and Party members across the country.
No one knows that more than our whanau in Tamaki Makaurau.
So to you especially I want to begin by saying nga mihi ki a koutou katoa. Thank you.
For what will feel like endless weeks now, you have carried a burden on behalf of the rest of the country. You have maintained a border, stayed home, and sacrificed much to protect your community, but also to protect the rest of Aotearoa New Zealand.
I know at times that will have been an extraordinarily lonely place to be. But please never doubt that what you have done has had a profound impact on New Zealand.
I have talked before at conferences about the many letters that I receive in this job. It’s one of the privileges of being Prime Minister in a country of our size. So many of the letters I get start with “I doubt you’ll ever read this, but…..”
I remember many of these letters. One that I received in the middle of the pandemic has stayed with me. It was from an intensive care Doctor, and they simply wrote “during this pandemic, you have all saved more lives than I will in my entire career.”
I never saw that letter as directed at me. I saw that letter directed at us. Because none of what we have done, was ever achieved by one, but by many. An entire team of five million.
From the day COVID arrived on our shores everything we have done has been about protecting New Zealanders lives and livelihoods.
Collectively we have seen fewer cases, hospitalisations and deaths than any other country in the OECD.
We have also seen an economy that has done more than survive, but in fact has grown and kept people in jobs; just this week delivering the lowest unemployment on record.
But none of that is to say that it has been without cost. It has had a huge toll on people and businesses, especially in recent months. But I know that we have it in us to continue to move forward through this tough transition, into a new phase.
And so to all of New Zealand, but especially Auckland I say – he rā ki tua, better times are coming.
Over the coming weeks, we will see the level of protection in our communities increase as more people are vaccinated. In fact we’re on track to have amongst the highest vaccination rates in the world, already having overtaken the likes of Australia the US, the UK, France, Germany and Ireland.
And that brings with it the opportunity to transition to the new COVID protection framework. That new system, will mean more certainty for businesses that they can stay open. It will mean that not every COVID case will trigger the anxiety of sudden lock downs, but it will also mean that we continue to treat COVID seriously and take measures to protect people from it.
It is a plan firmly rooted in a view that we can carve our own path, and our own response. One that is right for New Zealand and our people.
Once these changes are bedded in, they then gives us the chance to change some of our other settings, in a careful and considered way. We will look to our international borders, using home isolation as a way to reunite more kiwis with their loved ones, taking pressure off MIQ.
Over time, we’ll then have the chance to open up more broadly, and welcome back those we have been so used to sharing our hospitality and nation with.
Life may be different for a time. But it can and will feel more familiar again. And after so much disruption, so much anxiety, everyone deserves that.
And so in the meantime, we continue to be steadfast in our response, which has begun to tilt towards vaccination over restriction.
Because we’re a Labour Government, we will focus on our most vulnerable and also accelerate Maōri vaccination rates. We will protect our health system. We will keep adapting and evolving but we will always first and foremost protect lives and livelihoods.
That is the measure of good government. And it’s a measure of a Labour Government.
But there is another measure.
And that’s what we do in spite of these tough times.
COVID didn’t make any of our existing challenges go away. In fact it made some of them worse. But despite taking on the worst health and economic challenge of our lifetimes, we have not stopped addressing the housing crisis, child poverty, water quality or climate change – just to name a few.
Since we’ve been in office, we’ve created 8,591 public housing spaces with thousands more on the way.
We’re reforming the RMA to ramp up building work.
We’ve overseen insulation and heating for more than 38,000 homes meaning more families can stay warm and dry.
We’ve worked hard to build a whole new level of primary mental health care with our record investment in frontline services seeing around 10,000 people every month accessing support at their trusted local health clinic.
We’ve made doctors’ visits cheaper for 600,000 New Zealanders and we’re fixing up our hospitals and training more ICU nurses.
We made the largest boost to main benefit rates in a generation and finally turn ＇ed around those 1991 cuts.
We introduced free and healthy lunches in schools, and 200,000 children have benefitted from them this year.
And under the steady hand of Grant Robertson, who runs an economy that looks after everyone, GDP is up and unemployment is down, our debt is amongst the lowest levels in the OECD, and we’ve experienced record export growth. Growth that will only continue with our new UK FTA.
And while we may have unemployment rates at the lowest levels in more than a decade, we have plans to continue to rebuild and recover, with $57 billion invested in infrastructure alone ready to roll out over the next five years.
But as we undertake that rebuild, it is both our people AND our environment that must sit at the centre. Through initiatives like jobs for Nature we are improving pest control and restoring waterways. But we need to make systemic changes for our environment too.
That’s what three waters is about.
In Three Waters, we’re fixing crumbling water pipes that without change will lead to ballooning costs for ratepayers, decreased water quality, and unsustainable sewage discharge. The status quo is not an option.
To leave the situation as it is, is to condemn the already 34,000 kiwis who get sick from water each year, to keep getting sick.
It is to say to the first home buyer that the lack of infrastructure underground will continue to get in the way of affordable home ownership options now and in the future.
And it tells those that care for our environment and want to swim at our beaches that we’ll keep seeing over 3,000 incidents of sewage discharge into our water ways every year.
To those who want to cancel three waters, to them I say this – the problem is clear, the status quo is not an option. If your concern is losing public ownership – then commit to retain these assets in public ownership, as we have, and support the legislation to lock that in.
But don’t pretend there isn’t a problem.
But this is not the only challenge to the environment where the status quo is not an option.
As we come together today, so too have world leaders convened for COP26 in Glasgow. Thankfully for the most part, we have moved on from a time where climate change itself is questioned, to a period where we must all be held to account over both our ambition and our action.
We have a lot of work to do. But I remain incredibly proud to have presided over a government that has done more in four years than previous governments combined. But that has been born out of necessity.
We have but a short window to do what is required to meet our 1.5 degree commitments.
I’m not able to attend COP this year. Our role as chair of APEC has prevented me from standing alongside our pacific neighbours in advocating for our region, and being held to account ourselves. But if I was there, and asked the question “what has your government done?”
This is what I would say:
First, we built the foundations. We passed the landmark Zero Carbon Act, established the Climate Commission, and established our carbon budgets.
Now we’re taking the next steps.
We want to be ambitious. We’ve set a goal for 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and we’re investing in the initiatives to help us get there.
We want our public sector to be carbon neutral by 2025 and we’re setting up the programmes to get there too.
But our big problems lie in the fact we produce food, process it, and the way we get around.
And that’s why we’ve invested in research to reduce agricultural methane, and why we have a world first agreement with our farmers to both price and reduce our agricultural emissions.
And it’s why we have increased public transport spending by 40%, introduced a clean car standard and incentivised low and no emissions vehicles.
But I would also explain that while there are some areas like transport where we are catching up, there are some areas where we will lead too. That in fact we are the first country in the world to pass a law that will ensure financial organisations disclose and ultimately act on climate related risks and opportunities. And that we continue to be a leading advocate internationally for the removal of fossil fuel subsidies.
And I would finish with a pledge, that we would do our bit. Which is why in the last few weeks alone we have quadrupled our climate finance commitment to the most vulnerable countries to $1.3 billion over four years, and increased our contribution to the global effort to tackle climate change by reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.
We have more to do, no doubt. But when we look back on this COP, and in fact, as we look back on our nuclear free moment, I want to know that we did everything we could.
As I said at the beginning though, so much of government is about what you do in spite of what is going on around you. And no matter what the day to day has brought, the motivation for this Labour government and for me has not changed. It is people. And especially, our children.
Here, there is much we have done, and much left to do. But we know that the issue of child poverty especially is one that has been made even worse as a result of COVID.
Lock downs hit everyone, but especially those who have the least.
I’m proud to have been part of the Labour family that introduced the Working for Families system. At the time it was the most significant change to children’s policy in decades, and made a massive difference to child poverty. It gave us a foundation to build upon, and we have.
When we came into office, we introduced the Best Start tax credit, a payment that recognised that the first 1000 days of a child’s life is critical, and gave extra support to families with new borns. We increased the family tax credit. We removed the hours test for the in work tax credit. And we lifted the rates of the Orphans Benefit, the Unsupported Childs Benefit and the Foster Care Allowance. Taken as a whole, these changes helped to lift 43,300 children out of poverty, and have given families more choices.
And we need to keep going.
We have made commitments to halve child poverty over 10 years. Since we took office we have made positive progress on all 9 of the child poverty indicators we have set. We have turned around stats that showed that children were doing worse, not better. But we will never say the job is done. And every change we make here, large or small, will make a difference.
And here, I want to share with you the next change we’re making.
To recognise the impact of COVID on families, and the increased cost of living, we are increasing the Family Tax credit so that 346,000 families will be better off by an average of $20 a week.
The family tax credit was due to be CPI adjusted.
But we have added an additional investment of $272 million over four years to boost the amount it will be increased, and made changes to the abatement rate from 25% to 27% to reach those who need it most.
As a result, the eldest child rate for the Family Tax Credit will increase by $14.69 per week, and the subsequent child rate will increase by $12.83 per week.
Because of our additional investment an estimated 6,000 children will be lifted out of poverty.
And while we lifted the rates of the Orphans benefit, and Unsupported Child Benefit and the Foster Care Allowance in 2020 by $25, we will do so again by an extra $5 a week. The Best Start payment will also increase by the same amount.
As a result of this package hundreds of thousands of families will have a meaningful boost to their incomes from April of next year.
To Carmel Sepuloni, and David Parker. Thank you in particular for your work on this issue. It is just one extra thing we can do for families in this tough time.
I want to finish today where I started. And that is by acknowledging the Labour team gathered together remotely today. You’ll notice my address to you is a little shorter than usual. That’s because in this zoom world, and while we are at a greater distance from one another, we wanted to try and build in the things we are missing the most. Interaction, and a good remit or two.
But I can’t and won’t wrap without a personal message of thanks.
One thing I have noticed in recent times in this job, is that when you have a chance to talk to another world leader, the conversation quickly turns to how difficult the last twelve months have been. It’s a shared experience for all of us. No one has been unaffected. In fact, bi laterals run the risk of becoming group therapy. But while this time may be a unique one, I have never, ever felt alone. None of the cabinet, and caucus have.
You are hugely valued members of our team of 5 million. We wouldn’t be here, sharing some of the steps we have taken in our journey in recent times, or the journey we are aiming for in the future, were it not for the role you played in getting us here, and keeping us motivated once we arrived.
In fact none of us in parliament reached these privileged roles on our own. Before we were in caucus, we were in LECs, we were volunteers. And we are here because of the faith and belief you had in us to represent you in parliament. So on behalf of caucus, thank you. We hope we have, and continue to make you proud”。
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