Rightly or wrongly, I generally take people at face-value until proven otherwise. It’s served me well over the years. As such, and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I’ll take the PM’s words as sincere.
The article highlights 4 deaths in 20 years, I stopped reading after 1998 as the article is nonsense. In context, NZ doesn’t strike me as having a “worrying dark side”. Far from it.