Chris Trotter is a bit more cynical on Jacinda's motivation; to paraphrase, she has her eye on the next step in Helen Clark's career path formula (UN) and being the leader on whose watch "co-governance" hit the fan was going to impede her progress – either by making her massively unpopular with the electorate or by painting her as insufficiently committed to "decolonisation".
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