カテゴリー: Jacinda Ardern
As an election year approaches, several key themes emerged from questions you sent in for the prime ministerWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalismAs New Zealanders count down to the end of …
Prime minister says New Zealand’s ‘no-fault’ accident compensation system did not lead to more risk-taking in tourism sectorAn investigation into whether anyone was at fault for the deaths of at least 16 people in a volcanic eruption in New Zealand las…
Foreign affairs minister’s visit comes after Australian victim dies in Sydney hospital on SundayAustralia’s foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, is set to arrive in New Zealand to meet with its prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, in the wake of the coun…
New Zealand PM says she hopes artificial intelligence may one day stop attacks being live streamedJacinda Ardern has said she will do all she can to stop a man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers from spreading his message of hate at his trial, a…
PM sorry for state-owned Air New Zealand’s efforts to blame pilots for 1979 crash into Antarctica’s Mt Erebus The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has met the relatives of those killed in the Erebus disaster – New Zealand’s worst plane crash which claim…
The mining and farming region is tired of being the country’s ‘environmental conscience’ and wants its voice heardWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalism“I love coal.”It’s not a phrase you m…
Prime minister collects chat show host from the airport in first episode of ‘The Newest Zealander’The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert engaged in potentially copyright-infringing carpool karaoke with prime minister Jacinda Ardern and pranked Lorde at a barb…
New revelations about party funding are a stain on the country’s reputation for transparencyComplacency can be a nation’s greatest foe.New Zealanders, buoyed by their country’s high ranking in global transparency measures, see little to learn from othe…
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…
As Aotearoa New Zealand heads for an election in 2020, what would you like to ask the PM about? Climate change? Gun buybacks? Housing? Over to you …With New Zealand’s election less than a year away Jacinda Ardern may be hugely personally popular, and…
The mosque attacks rocked New Zealand but good deeds and generosity will help keep us togetherThe day of 15 March 2019 will stay with me forever. I was working in my bedroom, listening to radio and drawing. The on-air chat and music was interrupted as …
With micro-parties poised to steal votes from the PM’s coalition partners, it could sink them all in 2020 electionWith a year until the next election, Jacinda Ardern may be extraordinarily personally popular, and Labour polling well, but neither fact w…
Jacinda Ardern says government will double its investigative operation and track down content in a similar manner to child abuse materialThe New Zealand government will create a dedicated investigative team to find and prosecute terrorist and extremist…
New Zealand prime minister says relationship with US counterpart is strong despite previous run-insNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern will hold her first ever formal meeting with Donald Trump next week, the first time the two leaders have sat do…