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Grown-Ups Club

Jacinta Arden is dressed as a hippie in front of the 'Invite only AUKUS Grown-Ups Club'. She is holding a 'No nukes' sign saying, 'and stay out!!'

Johannes Leak

17 September 2021

When New Zealand was excluded from the AUKUS pact, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that given the country’s nuclear-free laws and that ‘the anchor of this arrangement are nuclear powered submarines … it will be very clear … why NZ would not wish to be a part of that project’.