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Jacinda Ardern eyes historic election win in COVID-free New Zealand

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is widely expected to win a second term this weekend, buoyed by a decisive yet compassionate leadership style under crisis, with polls showing her centre-left ... Read More

New Zealand's Ardern storms to re-election with 'be strong, be kind' mantra

Jacinda Ardern turned speaking from the heart and smiling through adversity into a winning formula for a blowout re-election as New Zealand's leader on Saturday. Read More

NZ's Ardern says she'll step down as party boss if she loses election

New Zealand's prime ministerial hopefuls clashed on Thursday in their last debate before a general election that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said if she does not win, she will resign from the ... Read More

Pandemic biggest hurdle for New Zealand's Ardern after 'tectonic' election

Jacinda Ardern's landslide election win gives her a mandate for the transformational change she has been promising New Zealand for three years, but the COVID-19 pandemic may limit what she can ... Read More

Expatriate New Zealanders seen boosting Ardern’s election bid

When recently returned New Zealander Lara Barclay talked to fellow Kiwi expatriates in Australia, it was her country's success in tackling coronavirus that came up again and again and the crisis role ... Read More

New Zealand's Ardern wins 'historic' re-election for crushing COVID-19

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered the biggest election victory for her centre-left Labour Party in half a century on Saturday as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to COVID-19. Read More

Ardern vows to tackle housing crisis as New Zealand readies for early voting

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday vowed to tackle the country's chronic housing shortage, focusing in on a vulnerable election issue for the Labour Party ahead of early voting ... Read More

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Prime Minister’ on HBO Max, an Inside-Politics Documentary About New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister (now streaming on HBO Max) is an anomaly: an intimate, relatively unvarnished portrait of a major world leader. And a groundbreaking documentary deserves a groundbreaking subject in ... Read More

-New Zealand's Ardern seen cruising to victory as election contest heats up

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is on course for a historic election win next month, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday, as New Zealanders cheered her success in containing the novel coronavirus. Read More

What women want: Female vote key but policies lacking in New Zealand election

New Zealand's upcoming general election has the rare distinction of providing a choice of two female candidates as the country's next leader in a poll that could be decided by the female vote. Read More

New Zealand's Ardern seeks second political term

Less than a year after becoming prime minister, Ardern became the world's second elected head of government to give birth while in office, after Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. She took six months ... Read More

New Zealand's Ardern set to declare climate emergency

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government is to declare a climate emergency in a symbolic step to increase pressure for action to combat global warming. Read More