Tag: Jacinda Ardern
PM Jacinda Ardern tests positive for covid-19 – NZ cases rising
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that she has tested positive for covid-19.
Her daughter Neve tested positive on Wednesday, she added in...
New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital journalist
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong have added a focus on climate...
Gordon Campbell: On gendered perceptions in Aotearoa politics
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell
In recent weeks, barely a day has gone by without Christopher Luxon demonstrating the chasm of ability that exists between the...
Economic sanctions still best way to pressure Russia, says Ardern
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says expelling the Russian ambassador remains an option, but it would not have the most impact of the actions...
New Zealand to remain at red covid-19 traffic light setting amid...
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at the red covid-19 traffic light setting, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Ardern made the announcement at today's post-cabinet...
Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle –...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel, a reflection as Aotearoa New Zealand yesterday experienced its worst day since the covid-19 pandemic began.
It came up in...
NZ’s omicron outbreak: PM Ardern heralds changes to traffic light strategy
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased.
She said the traffic light...
‘Warmest welcome you can imagine’ – Ardern opens NZ doors to...
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News tourism reporter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to Aotearoa New Zealand's shores.
It...
From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University
With recent polling showing National edging ahead of Labour for the first time in two years, Jacinda Ardern’s previously...
Political parties condemn Parliament protesters, praise police actions
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
All political parties have supported a motion in Parliament to recognise the "safe restoration of Parliament's grounds"...
PM condemns Russia’s Ukraine invasion which will claim many ‘innocent lives’
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand joins its international partners in condemnation of Russia's attack on Ukraine and has immediately taken a...
NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern
RNZ News
"Go home and take your children" -- that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today.
Despite being...
120 protesters at NZ’s Parliament arrested as tension grows on third...
RNZ News
One hundred and twenty protesters have been arrested for refusing to leave the grounds of New Zealand's Parliament after being trespassed today
Police say...
PM Jacinda Ardern says NZ omicron peak could be in late...
RNZ News
After a record number of covid-19 cases were reported on Saturday, New Zealand's prime minister believes the country's omicron peak may be in...
‘With togetherness, we overcome,’ says NZ’s Ardern on Waitangi Day
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's prerecorded speech marking the historic 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Māori chiefs and the colonial government made from the treaty...
Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February
RNZ News
New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by...
PM Jacinda Ardern isolating after becoming close contact of covid case
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is self-isolating after being deemed a close contact of a positive covid case.
She was on the same...
Omicron will be a ‘different foe’, PM Jacinda Ardern warns NZ
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is warning New Zealand's covid-19 case numbers in 2022 will be unlike anything seen...
PM Ardern on covid-19 vaccine for children, booster doses and Tonga
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand will move to the red traffic light setting if omicron is spreading in the community following...
No reports of deaths in Tongan volcano tsunami, says NZ prime...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there are no official reports of injuries or deaths in Tonga in the wake of the...
Gordon Campbell: Fostering the Kiwi culture of covid complaint media
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell in Wellington
Success can be its own worst enemy. If the plane doesn’t crash or the ship doesn’t sink, that doesn’t...
Auckland moves ‘cautiously’ to covid alert level 3, rest of NZ...
RNZ News
Auckland will move to alert level 3 from 11.59pm on Tuesday night, and stay in level 3 for at least two weeks, Prime...