Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs a mosque-goer at the Kilbirnie Mosque. Her second was to try to disassociate New Zealand from the motives for it in the eyes of the international community. Facts help offer certainty and Ardern set them out in a matter of fact way. Ardern set about distancing New Zealand from the terrorist and the views that drove him. Ardern will also have to help New Zealand adjust to knowing that is no longer the case, and possibly never was.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 17, 2019 04:41 UTC