Jacinda Ardern

Travel bubbleNation

Eichardts group general manager James Cavanagh pictured at Eichartds Queenstown, New Zealand 5th April 2021 Photo-James Allan

Airlines prepare for NZ takeoff

Australia’s busiest international air route is set to reopen within weeks delivering a significant windfall for tourism and airlines.

Rosie Lewis and Robyn Ironside

Travel bubblePolitics

Air New Zealand airplanes wait for passengers outside the international terminal as a plane taxis at Wellington International airport on February 20, 2020. - The New Zealand government announced a bail out package to help the national carrier Air New Zealand survive the Corvid 19 virus down turn. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

Air NZ hints at trans-Tasman bubble date

With Jacinda Ardern’s update expected tomorrow, flights provide a clue as to when the quarantine-free travel corridor will open.

Nicholas Jensen

unprecedented callNation

Premier Investments chairman Ron Brierley during AGM in Melbourne.

Ardern moves to axe Brierley knighthood

Jacinda Ardern plans to strip the knighthood of businessman Ron Brierley after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.

Heath Parkes-Hupton and AFP

Christchurch massacreWorld

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a national remembrance service in Christchurch on March 13, 2021, to mark two years since the Christchurch mosque attacks in which 51 people were killed and dozens were injured following the mass shooting on March 15, 2019. (Photo by SANKA VIDANAGAMA / AFP)

Support Muslim community, says Ardern

Jacinda Ardern has told an emotional service marking two years since the Christchurch attacks that NZ must support its Muslim community.

CommentaryPolitics

Paramilitary police officers wearing face masks march outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 22, 2020, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Chinaâs entry into the 1950-53 Korean War. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)

How West became more like China

For almost a year, rights to free movement, speech and commerce have been turned off. Welcome to our authoritarian future.

Adam Creighton

CoronavirusWorld

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 15: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament on February 15, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. Auckland is in alert level 3 COVID-19 lockdown for three days following the discovery of three new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Sunday. The rest of New Zealand has entered into level 2 restrictions as health authorities work to identify the source of infection. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Auckland goes back into lockdown

New Zealand’s largest city goes back into lockdown from Sunday as COVID-19 cases continued to be detected in the community.

World

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 22: New Zealand Governor General Dame Patsy Reddy (C) and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (R) during the national memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake on February 22, 2021 in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Photo by Peter Meecham/Getty Images)

Ardern leads tributes decade after quake

Jacinda Ardern paid tribute to victims of the Christchurch earthquake on Monday as New Zealand paused to mark the 10th anniversary of the disaster that claimed 185 lives.

AFP

‘TAKE RESPONSIBILITY’Politics

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left has slammed Australian PM Scott Morrison for his government's decision to strip a dual Australian-New Zeakand terrorist detained in Turkey of Australian citizenship. Pictures:

Morrison, Ardern trade blows

The PM hits back at Jacinda Ardern who blasted Australia for stripping a dual national terror suspect’s citizenship.

Ben Packham

CitizenshipNewsWire

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 16, 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference in Parliament House, Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gary Ramage

‘Take responsibility’: Ardern scolds PM

The two leaders have crossed swords over a 26-year-old woman who has been detained in Turkey with two small children.

James Hall

Coronavirus crisisNation

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 14: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with media on February 14, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. Auckland is now at Level three with the rest of the country on level two. Three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Auckland on Sunday with genomic testing underway to confirm if the cases are linked to any of the more infectious coronavirus strains. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/Getty Images)

Auckland hit with snap lockdown

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered New Zealand’s largest city into a three-day lockdown from midnight on Sunday (10pm AEDT) after three cases emerged in the community.

Olivia Caisley and Jess Malcolm

BordersNation

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JANUARY 26: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference at Parliament on January 26, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. Ardern said that the Government could approve a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Wednesday, February 3. New Zealand's first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is due to arrive by the end of March with a priority focus on border workers. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Trans-Tasman bubble in trouble: Ardern

Hopes of a trans-Tasman bubble before Easter have all but evaporated following Australia’s response to a single COVID case.

Robyn Ironside

UpdatedNewsWire

(FILES) This file picture taken on November 18, 2020 shows a syringe and a bottle reading

Vaccine manufacturer’s bold claim

A vaccine manufacturer says it believes it can combat a highly-contagious new COVID-19 strain as Jacinda Ardern delivers a virus-related warning.

Finn McHugh

commentaryCommentary

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 08: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks while Police Commissioner Andrew Coster looks on during a media lock-up ahead of the release of the Royal Commission of Inquiry in relation to the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques at Parliament on December 08, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. The Royal Commission report into the 2019 terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques will be released on Tuesday 8 December. 51 people were killed after a man opened fire at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch on Friday, 15 March 2019. The Australian gunman was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being found guilty of 92 charges relating to what was New Zealand's worst mass shooting in history. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Jacinda’s sorry but Big Tech must share blame for attack

In the wake of the Christchurch attack report, social media companies must start removing and deplatforming the toxic material that acts as inspiration for far right terrorism.

Jack the Insider

ARDERN APOLOGISESNation

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 08: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a media lock-up ahead of the release of the Royal Commission of Inquiry in relation to the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques at Parliament on December 08, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. The Royal Commission report into the 2019 terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques will be released on Tuesday 8 December. 51 people were killed after a man opened fire at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch on Friday, 15 March 2019. The Australian gunman was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being found guilty of 92 charges relating to what was New Zealand's worst mass shooting in history. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

NZ agencies ‘fragile’ but Tarrant off radar

Brenton Tarrant was a ‘socially-isolated’ white supremacist who was radicalised partly by extremist content on YouTube: NZ commission report.

KIERAN GAIR

NZ’s First coupleThe Times

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 17: Labour Party leader and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford, fiancÃÂ© of Labor Party Leader and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, look on after Ardern claimed victory during the Labor Party Election Night Function at Auckland Town Hall on October 17, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand. Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has claimed victory in the 2020 New Zealand General Election to secure a second term as prime minister in the 53rd Parliament of New Zealand after defeating National's Judith Collins. The 2020 New Zealand General Election was originally due to be held on Saturday 19 September but was delayed due to the re-emergence of COVID-19 in the community. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Ardern’s wedding: plans in place but no date

Following her re-election, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she’s now planning her wedding.

Bernard Lagan

NZ ELECTIONWorld

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - NOVEMBER 02: Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a Labour press conference at Parliament on November 02, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Labour's Jacinda Ardern claimed a second term as prime minister after claiming a majority in the 2020 New Zealand General Election on Saturday 17 October, claiming 64 seats. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Ardern introduces new faces, tattoos and all

Jacinda Ardern’s ministerial line-up includes New Zealand’s first openly gay deputy PM and a foreign minister with a Maori facial tattoo.

AFP

Trans-Tasman bubbleNewsWire

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks to media before her first caucus meeting at Parliament since last weekends general election, in Wellington on October 20, 2020. - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed October 18, 2020 to

Calls for reciprocal trans-Tasman bubble

A state premier will ask New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to allow residents from the ‘safest’ place in Australia to visit her country.

Emily Cosenza

CommentaryCommentary

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media a day after her landslide election win, in Auckland on October 18, 2020. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

Danger across ditch as Ardern returns

Jacinda Ardern is a brilliant politician, but an incompetent administrator. With her re-election, NZ’s in for a dangerous three years.

Gideon Rozner

STREWTHStrewth

Kiwi go again

Jacinda Ardern’s fiance Clarke Gayford served up home-made snack platters to hungry journos as they staked out the Prime Minister’s Auckland house on Saturday.

Alice Workman

NZ prideWorld

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 15, 2019 New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (L) is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 15, 2019, for the launch the global

Jacinda’s cool in a crisis, hazier on the long-term

Jacinda Ardern’s rockstar profile has made Kiwis feel ‘exceptional’ — now the responsibility to restore the nation’s economic fortunes is hers alone.

The Economist

commentaryWorld

Kiwis rush into the arms of a progressive future

Despite a policy-lite platform, Jacinda Arden’s thumping victory hands her unprecedented transformational power in New Zealand. What will she do with it?

Craig Greaves

EditorialEditorials

Decision day across the ditch

Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has put her on track for victory.

Editorial

commentaryInquirer

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 16: Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern campaigns and meets with public on Onehunga Mall on October 16, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand. Voters head to the polls on Saturday to elect the 53rd Parliament of New Zealand. The 2020 New Zealand General Election was originally due to be held on Saturday 19 September but was delayed due to the re-emergence of COVID-19 in the community. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

From go-it-alone to a more pragmatic approach

The New Zealand prime minister will quickly find she needs to choose her allies wisely.

DANIEL FLITTON

World

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 15: New Zealand Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, Jacinda Ardern and Labour Party Finance Minister Grant Robertson speak to the media after watching Mary Poppins, The Musical on October 15, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand. Mary Poppins, The Musical opens at The Civic in Auckland on Friday 16 October. Promoters say it will be the biggest theatre in the world to reopen since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the West End and Broadway. Prime Minister and Labour leader Jacinda Ardern is campaigning in Auckland ahead of the 2020 New Zealand General Election which is being held on Saturday 17 October after a one month delay due to the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent lockdowns across New Zealand. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Facebook shuts down Kiwi poll conspiracists

Facebook shuts down the page of conspiracy-embracing political party Advance New Zealand just two days out from an election.

AFP

CommentaryCommentary

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (C) poses for photos with students while campaigning at Victoria University in Wellington on October 13, 2020, ahead of the country's general election on October 17. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

Priestess of Woke rules, but Kiwis pay

No international halo is so fraudulent as that worn by Jacinda Ardern. She has presided over an economy in steep decline.

Greg Sheridan

NZ electionWorld

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 14: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets members of the public during a walkabout in the CBD on October 14, 2020 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The 2020 New Zealand General Election was originally due to be held on Saturday 19 September but was delayed due to the re-emergence of COVID-19 in the community. (Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images)

Greens waiting for bigger role

Barring a dramatic late shift in voter sentiment, New Zealand is set to awake this Sunday to the dawn of Labour-Green rule.

CRAIG GREAVES

ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENTPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos. 01 OCTOBER 2020: NATIONAL PRESS CLUBAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his 'Pre-Budget Address' at the National Press Club in CanberraPicture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

NZ travel bubble deals within days

Scott Morrison is preparing to announce deals with state governments to kickstart the trans-Tasman ‘travel bubble’.

Rosie Lewis and Paige Taylor

CORONAVIRUSNewsWire

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - SEPTEMBER 24: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a visit to RÃÂwhiti Domain Canopy on September 24, 2020 in Christchurch, New Zealand. RÃÂwhiti Domain Canopy is one of nine projects in New Brighton that have been approved for $7m of IRG funding. The 2020 New Zealand General Election will be held on Saturday 17 October. It was originally due to be held on Saturday 19 September but was delayed due to the re-emergence of COVID-19 in the community. (Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images)

Jacinda hints at Aussie travel bubble

A travel bubble between New Zealand and an Australian state could soon be established, with both leaders backing the move.

Jade Gailberger

Jacinda ArdernWorld Breaking News

Jacinda Ardern has been criticised for breaking her government's own social distancing guidelines with this selfie.

Jacinda Ardern in hot water over selfie

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been forced to apologise after an image emerged of her taking a selfie on the election campaign trail.

Phoebe Loomes

STREWTHStrewth

Selfie-obsessed Ardern in hot water

New Zealand’s PM accused of double standards for blatantly disregarding Covid regulations on the campaign trail.

Alice Workman

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