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当地时间1月25日，新西兰迎来第41任总理，44岁的执政党新党魁克里斯·希普金斯当天上午宣誓就职，完成了与前任总理阿德恩的权力交接。
本月19日，时任总理、工党党魁阿德恩突然宣布，由于个人精力原因，将在2月7日前辞职。工党随后投票通过希普金斯为新的工党党魁并将出任总理。在该国10月举行大选之前，希普金斯将接替阿德恩担任大约八个月的总理职务。
25日上午，希普金斯和新任副总理卡梅尔·塞普洛尼参加了宣誓就职仪式。希普金斯还将召开内阁会议，并于下午向媒体发表讲话。下周，希普金斯将进行内阁改组，全面调整各项政策。他还暗示，应对通胀将是其内阁精简工作计划的首要任务。
英国《卫报》称，希普金斯是新西兰疫情应对政策的“设计师”，他现在的任务是在10月大选之前重振政府日益下降的人气。“新冠大流行造成了健康危机。现在它创造了一个经济问题，这是我的政府将重点关注的地方，”希普金斯此前曾说过。
希普金斯生于1978年，是两个孩子的父亲。他说自己是一个“普通的新西兰人”，来自工薪阶层，喜欢香肠卷，喜欢骑自行车上班。作为一名户外运动爱好者，希普金斯尤其热衷于山地自行车、徒步旅行和游泳等运动。
希普金斯2008年以来曾先后担任工党议员、教育部长、卫生部长、新冠疫情应对部长、公共服务部长和警察部长等职务。他非常重视社会正义，是公共教育系统的坚定拥护者和捍卫者，认为每个新西兰人都应该有机会充分发挥自己的潜力。
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in his first meeting with ministers as prime minister – has reiterated the absolute focus over coming weeks will be the reprioritisation of the government’s policy programme, he says.
Hipkins and incoming deputy prime minister Carmel Sepuloni weresworn in to their new roles, at a ceremony at Government House this morning.
“Today that work started in earnest and we had a good discussions about the next steps we’ll be taking to reprioritise, refresh, and refocus the government’s work programme so we can move our resources where we need to so that we can address the bread-and-butter issues that New Zealanders are most concerned about.
“I’ve already said publicly that we will be reining in some of our plans, putting them on a slower track, giving us more room to move and greater capacity to focus on the immediate priority issues facing New Zealand, particularly the cost-of-living pressures that have been caused by the global economic situation.”
Today’s unchanged inflation figure confirmed this is the right immediate focus for the government he led, Hipkins said.
“The inflation level that we are seeing is not unexpected nor unusual, with many economies around the world feeling the same economic effects. We stack up pretty well against most of them with an inflation rate below the OECD average but regardless of where we sit compared to the rest of the world, here in New Zealand household budgets are being stretched and we do need to do as much as we can to help with that.”
The government was doing its bit to address the underlying causes including at the petrol pump and the supermarket, and it was having an impact, Hipkins said.
“The Treasury is forecasting real government consumption will fall by about 8.2 percent over the next couple of years which they say indicates that fiscal policy is supporting monetary policy in dampening inflationary pressures – but there’s more to do and the fight must and will continue.”
The level of inflation we were seeing at the moment was clearly not sustainable, he said.
“We’re not changing the Reserve Bank’s target … but if you look at our overall rate of inflation 7.2 percent here in N Z, 7.8 percent in Australia, 10.5 percent in the United Kingdom, the OECD average is 10.3 percent, the European Union is 11.1 percent. New Zealand is not immune to those international pressures and they will continue to have an impact on our rate of inflation.
“We will do everything we can to bring inflation down as much as we can but acknowledging those international pressures we will also be seeking to support New Zealanders through this.”
The prioritisation of Budget bids had not yet concluded, “so there is an opportunity for us to make sure that the Budget reflects the priorities that I’ve set out”.
Hipkins said he would honour the commitments that have been made “for this term of Parliament and that people will be absolutely clear on that as we head towards the next election”.
He refused to rule in or out changes or continuation of public transport subsidies.
“In terms of our tax policy for the next election New Zealanders will know it well in advance of the election. I’m not going to announce a tax policy on day one.”
He did want to acknowledge one of the causes of inflation in food and groceries in New Zealand and Australia was caused by the weather affecting the growing of fresh fruit and vegetables.
“New Zealanders will certainly see over the coming weeks and months the evidence of the fact that we’ve made it our number one priority.”
“I absolutely acknowledge the pressure that Kiwi families are feeling, and of course we’re not starting from zero, we’ve done a lot over the last year or so.”
He listed fuel tax cuts, and changes to benefit rates as examples.
Hipkins said his talks with businesses in Auckland tomorrow would be his first major engagement as prime minister, and one of the main topics he was expecting was the global shortage in workers.
Those meetings would be with a “broad cross-section” of business community leaders.
“That will include some small business leaders, some ethnic business community leaders. We recognise that we all want New Zealanders to be in work, to be earning a good income so that they can get ahead.”
Immigration settings were changed a month ago and it was too early to see the results yet “but we’ve already heard positive feedback about them from businesses”.
The government would not stop there and would continue to make changes, he said.
However, responding to questions, he said he would not be making up policy on the fly.
“I’m not going to start making announcements only a couple of hours into the job, so I think you will accept that will need to take a little bit of time to work through what our options are.”
On Covid-19, he said he still encouraged people to follow the rules.
“Bear in mind the seven-day isolation period is designed to result in fewer people getting Covid-19 in the first place. I think one of the things businesses don’t want to see happen is a whole lot of their workforce go down sick because someone who had covid-19 came to work rather than staying home and isolating. So there is a reason for it, it is actually a pro-business, pro-employer reason.”
Colleagues and family members watched as the process forreplacing Jacinda Ardern was completed.
Hipkins said the swearing in this morning was an immensely proud moment for both himself, Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni, and their families.
“I did take a few moments to reflect on that and reflect on the incredible privilege and the responsibilities that come with this job – and then it was time to get on with it.”
The new prime minister has a hefty to-do list, with a ministerial reshuffle to be announced next week and a full policy reset.
Hipkins has signalled tackling the “inflation pandemic” will be a top priority for his Cabinet’s slimmed-down work programme.
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