National-Led Government

No, I wake up, mate, honestly, just fired up. I mean, I really do because, yes, I agree with you. The world is at an inflection point. It has changed and it is not going back to how it was. It is about big countries with power exercising that power. And we are a small country and we have interests and values, but we don't have power. And so how we navigate that world is the way that I've been doing over the last two years is preparing for that by having broader relationships. relationships with the Singaporeans with the South Koreans with the Japanese with the Chinese the Indians the Middle Easterns the Europe UK Europe all of that stuff right and the Americans and we may not like I think Trump's tariffs are wrong we think we know how that movie ends it doesn't end well you know this war in the Middle East is absolute chaos and it needs you know it's no idea where it's going and every day it gets bounced around and yet it's causing huge economic pain and suffering for people around the world and here at home I joined a call at midnight on Friday at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning with other world leaders. There was 51 of us on the call. You know, I spoke there very strongly about how the impact is having a bit with New Zealand, but also across the Pacific region as well and in the developing countries in Asia. And, you know, that crisis needs to have a ceasefire and needs to get a proper negotiated settlement in place. And we need the free flowing and freedom of navigation of ships moving through that strait. So we can lower the price of diesel at the pump, and that's what it's got to be about again. But, you know, I get it. The country and everyone around the world, we've been through COVID, we've been through inflation and recession, we've been through Trump's tariffs, we've been through weather events, we've now got Trump's war. You know, all of that has implications, but it's happening to all 195 countries in the world. And the question is, how do you make sure you position New Zealand to come out of that, to pop up on its foils and to be able to go forward with a positive vision of where we get to? Oh, I think we can.