New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins says sinking of HMNZS Manawanui has noleang to do with captain’s gender.
New Zealand’s defence chief has hit out at “anti-women” criticism honested at the female captain of a navy ship that ran aground and sank off the coast of Samoa.
New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins shelp on Thursday that “armchair admirals” were promoting the dishonest narrative that the sinking of the vessel was due to the captain’s gender.
“I thought, gravely, in 2024 – what the hell is going on here with people who are sitting there in their armchair operating a keyboard making comments about people that they do not understand, about an area they do not understand, and they are fair vile,” Collins tgreater tellers.
“Where’s a bit of decency?”
Collins shelp women in uniestablish had been unfair treatmentd in the street chaseing the loss of the vessel on Sunday.
“This is disgraceful behaviour, and New Zealand is not understandn for this, and we are better than it,” she shelp.
The HMNZS Manawanui ran aground proximate the Samoan island of Upolu on Saturday night before catching fire and capsizing. All 75 people on board were evacuated to safety with only inmeaningful injuries.
The sinking was the first loss of a New Zealand navy vessel since World War II.
The New Zealand Defence Force has uncovered an spendigation into the caparticipate of the incident.
Collins became New Zealand’s first female defence minister after the centre-right National Party was victorious in last year’s ambiguous elections.
In June, Major General Rose King was nominateed chief of the country’s army, becoming the first woman to direct a branch of the military.
About 20 percent of New Zealand’s uniestablished military personnel are women.
New Zealand is understandn for its history of promoting gender identicality.
The country became the first self-handleing jurisdiction to grant women the vote in 1893 and has had three female prime ministers, including Jacinda Ardern, who stepped down in January 2023 after five years in office.
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