New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been criticised for her 'wellness budget' and 'unrealistic' climate change targets.
The new budget will see her lavish $26.5 billion over the next four years on tackling suicide rates, child poverty, homelessness and domestic violence - a plan Ms Ardern said was focused on 'wellbeing'.
Radio host Steve Price was speaking to conservative commentator Rita Panahi on his 2GB show on Tuesday night when he mentioned living in New Zealand under Ms Ardern's leadership.
Price said Ms Ardern was planning to deliver her 'wellness budget' to the New Zealand public on Thursday, and slammed the direction she was taking the country.
'She said it's about embedding kindness and empathy, legislating those things,' Price said.
'This sort of silliness impresses some of the people sometimes for a little period but you eventually get found out and I think she's going to get found out,' Panahi said.
'It's just going to be very ugly at the next election.'
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been criticised for her 'wellness budget' and 'unrealistic' climate change targets
Radio host Steve Price was speaking to conservative commentator Rita Panahi on his 2GB show on Tuesday night when he mentioned living in New Zealand under Ms Ardern's leadership
Price said Ms Ardern had reversed a policy where people in social housing had to leave when they improved their personal circumstances, a direction Panahi disagreed with.
'If you're earning a decent salary then you've got other options, that government-subsidised housing should be for those who can't care for themselves,' Panahi said.
'Some of the stuff they're talking about is just kooky... when you look at the substance often there's not much there.'
Caller Glen said he was in New Zealand during the Australian election, and sat in during a meeting of Parliament for a reading of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill - an ambitious plan to eliminate carbon by 2050.
'How are they going to do that?' Price asked.
'One of the most bizarre things about this zero carbon is they're going to
