Cyclone aftermath offers popularity boost to new New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins as poll looms
Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmine
On the lawn of a suburban home in Coromandel, the prime minister’s dress shoes have been scuffed ochre by a softened bed of clay. Chris Hipkins stands in front of the house, perched atop a tide of packed earth. It has been carried about 15 metres downhill by a landslide, walls crunched and bowing. The buckled porch has come to rest halfway across the lawn, flattening a well-tended hibiscus shrub.
“We’ve got a long journey ahead of us,” he says.
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