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Helen Clark

January 2023

Jacinda Ardern’s time in office was mostly shaped by crisis management.

How COVID’s bitter divisions tarnished NZ’s liberal icon

Jacinda Ardern was praised for her COVID-19 response until extended lockdowns and vaccine mandates hurt the economy, fuelled conspiracy theories and spurred a backlash.

  • Damien Cave

November 2022

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, with Anthony Albanese on Friday, warmly welcomed the new Australian government’s commitment to stronger climate action.

Kiwis push for pathways to citizenship in Australia

Jim Chalmers and Clare O’Neil will hold talks about dual citizenship and permanent residency rights this week, as more than 11,000 New Zealanders remain stuck in a years-long visa backlog. 

  • Tom McIlroy and Tom Richardson
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark at IMARC on Wednesday.

Former NZ prime minister Clark sounds alarm on green metals rush

Helen Clark warned surging demand for Africa’s battery metals is placing pressure on miners’ corporate governance standards.

  • Tom Richardson

October 2022

Narpula Scobie Napurrula, Women’s dreaming at Alukuru, 1990, part of the Cbus collection of Australian art, from the Friendly Country, Friendly People exhibition, sold as one lot at Deutscher and Hackett last week. 

26 paintings sell to one bidder as Cbus sale winds up

An entire exhibition of desert art works from 1990 was the last tranche from Cbus’s collection.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

May 2021

Health workers training in India earlier this year.

WHO panel calls COVID-19 this century’s ‘Chernobyl moment’

A new report says a meeting of world powers should boost preparedness for the next global pandemic.

  • Tom McIlroy
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March 2021

Journalists work as video of World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus is played on a giant screen.

World leaders form a queue to shake up WHO

One group of 20-plus leaders revved up the campaign for a new treaty, while another just wanted to vent at a lacklustre mission to China.

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  • Hans van Leeuwen

February 2021

Foreign Minister Marise Payne: “Australia has advocated for strengthening the WHO’s authority to quickly access and investigate an outbreak.”

Virus inquiry must be transparent, credible: Payne

The Foreign Minister says the pandemic has highlighted the need to reform the World Health Organisation.

  • Andrew Tillett
The WHO panel put paid to the Trump administration conspiracy theory the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan.

Clark review of WHO the main game for Australia

Australia has backed the dismissal of one theory over coronavirus but there is frustration it didn’t rule out the frozen food theory pushed by Beijing.

  • Andrew Tillett

January 2021

A man is tested in Beijing. China reported more than 100 new COVID-19 cases for a seventh day on Tuesday.

China's latest COVID-19 outbreak worst since March 2020

State-backed tabloid the Global Times on Tuesday defended China's early handling of COVID-19, saying no country had any experience in dealing with the completely new virus.

  • Emily Chow and Wang Jing
PM Scott Morrison spoke to his Norwegian counterpart on Monday night as part of a virtual meeting of First Movers group of countries on the vaccine roll out.

Panel findings back PM's criticism of WHO

Chinese officials and the World Health Organisation did not act forcefully enough to stop the spread of coronavirus, according to an independent review.

  • Andrew Tillett

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