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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media during a press conference one day before the country goes on lockdown to stop any progress of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Parliament in Wellington on March 24, 2020. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

Magic number needed for travel bubble

Following a growing number of COVID-19 cases and Victoria now in a “state of disaster”, the trans-Tasman travel bubble is basically off the table.

Health & Safety

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 22: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament on July 22, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the dismissal of Iain Lees-Galloway as a minister over an inappropriate relationship with a former staffer. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Jacinda ditches Aussie bubble plan

Bad news, Australia. New Zealand’s dropped us as its first option for a travel bubble, with PM Jacinda Ardern confirming she’ll prioritise other nations first.

HASTINGS, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 08: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media following an announcement about upgrading drinking water infrastructure on July 08, 2020 in Hastings, New Zealand. Central Government is investing $761 million to assist Local Government upgrade under-pressure water services across the country. (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images)

Another political implosion rocks NZ

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s re-election hopes have been bolstered again today, with her opposition plunging into worse turmoil.

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 25: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern holds a speech during a visit to Redcliffs School on June 25, 2020 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Redcliffs School returned to its home suburb this week after almost nine years after the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes made the original school site unsafe for staff and students to return to the Main Rd site. Following a number of temporary locations, the school now has a new $16 million campus at Redcliffs Park. (Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images)

‘Catastrophic’ U-turn benefiting Ardern

She was already odds-on to win, but the New Zealand opposition may have just handed Jacinda Ardern victory, nine weeks before the election.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 29: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 29, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the Government is prioritising its latest investment in PPE for frontline health workers, including staff at managed isolation and quarantine facilities. It will ensure health and frontline workers will continue to receive comprehensive PPE for close contact with returnees. Returnees will also be required to wear face masks when they are in common or exercise areas. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Under fire Ardern suffers major loss

Embattled NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern has accepted the resignation of one of her senior ministers following a series of COVID-19 bungles.

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Health & Safety

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 29: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 29, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the Government is prioritising its latest investment in PPE for frontline health workers, including staff at managed isolation and quarantine facilities. It will ensure health and frontline workers will continue to receive comprehensive PPE for close contact with returnees. Returnees will also be required to wear face masks when they are in common or exercise areas. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Ardern’s new concern over bubble

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her ‘heart goes out to Victoria’, saying the spike in cases shows the difficulty in launching a trans-Tasman bubble.

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‘Unusual’ item in Jacinda Ardern’s home

As the New Zealand Prime Minister sat down for a Facebook Live from her dining room, some were surprised by a surprising item at the table.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 29: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 29, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the Government is prioritising its latest investment in PPE for frontline health workers, including staff at managed isolation and quarantine facilities. It will ensure health and frontline workers will continue to receive comprehensive PPE for close contact with returnees. Returnees will also be required to wear face masks when they are in common or exercise areas. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Jacinda bites back at border criticism

Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus border policies have been slammed from all directions in recent days. The New Zealand PM is having none of it.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 17: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference at Parliament on June 17, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. After 24 days without an active case in the country, two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in New Zealand on Tuesday. The new cases are two people who had been given a compassionate exemption to leave managed isolation to attend a funeral. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Blame game in NZ over new virus cases

As new cases of coronavirus emerge in New Zealand public officials have begun pointing the finger over who is to blame.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 17: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives at a press conference at Parliament on June 17, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. After 24 days without an active case in the country, two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in New Zealand on Tuesday. The new cases are two people who had been given a compassionate exemption to leave managed isolation to attend a funeral. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Ardern slammed for quarantine ’disgrace’

Jacinda Ardern’s government is under fire after failing to test quarantined New Zealanders for coronavirus before granting them early releases.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 17: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference at Parliament on June 17, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. After 24 days without an active case in the country, two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in New Zealand on Tuesday. The new cases are two people who had been given a compassionate exemption to leave managed isolation to attend a funeral. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

‘Brilliant’ virus ruse leaves NZ red-faced

A homeless man living large after sneaking into hotel quarantine is the latest claim needing an answer from New Zealand’s health ministry.

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Jacinda Ardern on the cover of Time Magazine. Picture: Time Magazine

‘Failed miserably’: Jacinda’s in trouble

You would never know it from the glowing headlines she gets all around the world, but back home in New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is in trouble.

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Health & Safety

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 08: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 08, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that New Zealand will move to COVID-19 Alert Level 1 at midnight on June 8. Alert Level 1 will see people return to work, school, sports events and domestic travel without restrictions. There will also no longer be any restrictions on numbers at mass gatherings. Controls at the borders will remain in place for all people entering New Zealand, including health screening and testing for all arrivals, and mandatory 14-day managed quarantine or isolation. There are no longer any active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Other nations in NZ travel bubble plan

As New Zealand appears to have completely eradicated the coronavirus, all eyes are on when they’ll open the borders – and not just to Australia.

Ice cream on the Hobart waterfront. Picture: Samuel Shelley/Tourism Tasmania Escape, Angus Fontaine, This Time Next Year

Aussie state tipped as first to fly to NZ

As New Zealand continues to ease restrictions across the country, all eyes are on one Australian state as the first to be part of the travel bubble.

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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a press conference about the COVID-19 coronavirus at Parliament in Wellington on June 8, 2020. - New Zealand has no active COVID-19 cases after the country's final patient was given the all clear and released from isolation, health authorities said on June 8. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

NZ just pulled off the unthinkable

Eliminating coronavirus in the community was something most health experts thought was impossible, but New Zealand just did it. This is how.

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Ice cream on the Hobart waterfront. Picture: Samuel Shelley/Tourism Tasmania Escape, Angus Fontaine, This Time Next Year

Qld tipped as first to fly to NZ

New Zealand has revealed Queensland is one of the first Australian states they’d like to have as part of their initial travel bubble. Only problem is, we need to open our border first.

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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 24: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford return to their room with their new baby girl Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford June 24, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. Prime Minister Ardern is the second world leader to give birth in office, and the first elected leader to take maternity leave. Arden will take six weeks of leave with Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters assuming the role of Acting Prime Minister (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

Prime Minister hit the partner jackpot

NEW Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern returns to parliament today – but she couldn’t do it without her partner Clarke.

This hand out picture released by the office of New Zealand Prime Minister shows New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meeting with the representatives of the refugee centre during a visit to the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch on March 16, 2019. - A right-wing extremist who filmed himself rampaging through two mosques in the quiet New Zealand city of Christchurch killing 49 worshippers appeared in court on a murder charge on March 16, 2019. (Photo by - / OFFICE OF PRIME MINITER NEW ZEALAND / AFP) / XGTY----EDITORS NOTE ----RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT

Jacinda Ardern’s touching gesture

New Zealand’s PM has consoled the Muslim community in Christchurch and revealed fresh details about the killer’s plan.

Jacinda Ardern makes a tearful apology to Grace Millane's family.

PM’s emotional apology

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern held back tears as she apologised to the family of backpacker Grace Millane, saying the country feels a “collective shame”.

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 6, 2017 shows New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaking to the media in Wellington. Stung by sexual abuse claims, New Zealand's ruling Labour Party ordered a review of its own culture on March 14, 2018 in the first major crisis to hit Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's fledgling government. The centre-left party has been rocked by allegations that four teenagers were groped and sexually harassed at a Young Labour camp last month and officials did little to help them. / AFP PHOTO / Marty MELVILLE

‘Shock and disbelief’ over rugby ban

NEW Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has slammed a controversial decision Tongan schools have made to “preserve the dignity of women”.

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 12, 2016 shows New Zealand's Valerie Adams reacting in the women's shot put final at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Tonga's government has banned girls from participating in rugby and boxing, drawing criticism from two-time Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams and New Zealand's proudly feminist Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Adams, who was born in New Zealand but is fiercely proud of her Tongan heritage, described the move as

‘Misguided and stubborn’: Tonga slammed for girls rugby ban

TONGA’S government has banned girls from participating in rugby and boxing, drawing criticism from two time Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams and New Zealand’s proudly feminist Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

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Caleb Maraku, 19, leaves court after being sentenced for a brutal one punch attack in Surfers Paradise.

Kiwis filthy at our deported crims

NEW Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern had a pointed message for Malcolm Turnbull before she boarded the plane for Australia.

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60 Minutes reporter Charles Wooley.

‘Thought crime’: 60 Mins star hits back

60 MINUTES reporter Charles Wooley has hit back at the wave of criticism he copped for his interview with Kiwi PM Jacinda Ardern, saying the backlash is “Orwellian”.

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Concern for gaunt ‘Idol’ Stan Walker

FANS have expressed concern online after Australian Idol winner posted a picture with Jacinda Ardern looking frail with the New Zealand PM also commenting on him being “unwell”.

(FILES) This file photo taken on October 20, 2017 shows New Zealand's Labour party leader Jacinda Ardern smiling as she is welcomed to her first caucus meeting as Prime Minister-elect at Parliament in Wellington. Ardern announced on January 19, 2018 she is expecting her first baby in June, making her the country's first leader to give birth while in office. / AFP PHOTO / Marty MELVILLE

Big question about Jacinda’s pregnancy

NEW Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s pregnancy announcement has made worldwide news today, and there’s one question everyone’s asking but shouldn’t.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at a meeting for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, November 10, 2017. (AAP Image/POOL/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Jacinda Ardern reveals she’s pregnant

A YEAR that was already shaping up to be huge for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern just got bigger, with the news that she and her partner are expecting a baby.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at a meeting for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, November 10, 2017. (AAP Image/POOL/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Jacinda Ardern reveals she’s pregnant

A YEAR that was already shaping up to be a big one for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern just got bigger, with the news that she and her partner are expecting a baby in June.

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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at a meeting for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, November 10, 2017. (AAP Image/POOL/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

NZ PM signs up for Secret Santa

NEW Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern will give one lucky stranger a Christmas gift after signing up for a nationwide Secret Santa.

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epa06321741 US President Donald J. Trump (R) walks past Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (L), South Korean President Moon Jae-in (bottom-C) and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (2-R) during a group photo with fellow APEC leaders at the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, 11 November 2017. The APEC summit brings together world leaders from its 21 member nations and is being hosted for the second time by Vietnam, the first being in 2006. EPA/WALLACE WOON

Did Trump think PM was Trudeau’s wife?

JACINDA Ardern has played down a story that suggests Donald Trump confused her with a world leader’s wife.

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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at a meeting for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, November 10, 2017. (AAP Image/POOL/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Ardern’s cheeky burn to Trump

KIWI PM Jacinda Ardern is proving not shy on the international stage, burning US President Trump in person at a summit in Vietnam.

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