カテゴリー: Jacinda Ardern
Two large mascots, dancing to sorrowful music, helped welcome the New Zealand prime minister on her first trip overseas since the pandemic beganNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has been met in Japan on her first trip outside the country in t…
Led by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand women are entering uncharted territory in politics – and encountering increasing levels of abuseIn January 2020, a New Zealand man sent two emails to prime minister Jacinda Ardern: one threatening to “personally wipe …
Jacinda Ardern remains preferred prime minister but her party records worst polling since 2017 amid Covid surge and rising living costsFor the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Jacinda Ardern-led Labour party has slipped from bei…
Sound system on parliament grounds plays vaccine messages, Macarena and the crooner’s 1970s hitsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand authorities have deployed Barry Manilow against protesters at its parliament, playin…
Prime minister is said to be feeling well after taking flight with someone who tested positiveCoronavirus – latest updatesNew Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has gone into self-isolation until Tuesday after being deemed a close contact of a p…
A car of protestors yelled ‘shame on you’ as they pursued the prime minister’s van but Ardern says she wasn’t worried for her safetyCoronavirus – live updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said “at no po…
We would like to hear from readers in Aotearoa about how they’re dealing with tighter restrictions and preparing for a surge in Covid casesLast week New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern said the arrival of Omicron was not a matter not of if but wh…
Prime minister says variant is now circulating in the community but ‘we’ll do everything that we can to slow the spread’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingOmicron has breached New Zealand’s borders and started spreading in the communi…
Jacinda Ardern says Omicron is ‘knocking at our door’ as the prime minister faces criticism over gaps in preparations for a Covid wave Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn her first press conference of the year, held outside i…
Blanket of ash hinders communications from towns believed to have been inundated by waves as first surveillance flights departsNew Zealand and Australia have sent planes to assess the damage from a huge undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami that hit t…
In 2022 Jacinda Ardern must act on runaway house prices while the central bank should grab inflation by the neckMarch 2020 seems like an age ago. And also like it was yesterday. The month begun more or less like any other March in New Zealand. The weat…
Ardern is imperfect and her government often struggles to implement its agenda – but they excel at crisis management“If you want to know me, look at my surface”, Andy Warhol once said, or something along those lines. It’s an invitation to the obvious t…
Drop in support for prime minister comes amid recent changes in country’s pandemic fortunesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrime minister Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has plummeted in two new polls, as New Zealand struggles to contain a Delta outbreak a…
The New Zealand prime minister was trying to explain changing Covid rules when her three-year-old daughter appeared off-screenThe New Zealand prime minister has been interrupted by a persistent heckler: her three-year-old daughter, who had “escaped” an…
200 daily cases for the first time as PM says it is on track to have ‘amongst the highest vaccination rates in the world’New Zealand has passed 200 daily cases of Covid-19 for the first time in the pandemic, placing it on a worrying trajectory for the …