Tag: Jacinda Ardern
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...
Ardern confirms NZ lockdown moves – drop to 53 new covid...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says if New Zealand had not moved into lockdown, daily case numbers could have been around 550.
Cabinet has confirmed...
‘You’re not alone’, PM Ardern tells lockdown nation on mental health
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke at today's 1pm press conference about the importance of mental health and support services in the community during...
Kabul attack: Ardern says no NZDF personnel, evacuees at airport blasts
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the final New Zealand Defence Force evacuation flight from Afghanistan landed back in the United Arab Emirates last...
Chris Trotter: Why the right-wing media hates Jacinda’s covid elimination strategy
ANALYSIS: By Chris Trotter
There is something decidedly sinister about the way the right-wing media is pursuing the “elimination strategy is madness” argument so doggedly....
NZ lockdown ‘having an impact’, PM Jacinda Ardern tells nation
RNZ News
While covid-19 case numbers are still rising in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the lockdown is having an obvious impact in...
Sāmoa’s defeated Tuila’epa launches attack on NZ’s Jacinda Ardern
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Sāmoa’s defeated prime minister Tuila’epa Sailele has fired a verbal blast at Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda...
NZ lockdown streets silenced, 10 covid cases, police make ‘conspiracy’ arrests
RNZ News
New Zealand's streets were largely silent today as the three-day nationwide alert-level 4 lockdown kicked in with 10 cases of covid-19 reported so...
Auckland nurse worked four shifts not knowing she had virus –...
Today's New Zealand covid-19 media briefing. Video: RNZ News
RNZ News
The Auckland Hospital nurse who has tested positive for covid-19 worked four shifts not knowing...