Once again,In the face of catastrophe and in the worst circumstances,the best Australian characteristics shone through.
The former NZ PM wore a white halterneck dress,the groom sported a black suit and five-year-old daughter Neve walked down the aisle by his side.
It took 40 days for a three-party coalition to form government in New Zealand. But now it has arrived,it’s not wasting any time in turning back the clock.
The 2019 attack,in which 51 worshippers were killed by Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant,is the subject of a coronial inquest which began this week.
Voters have ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern and elected the country’s most right-wing government in a generation.
As the only Jacinta on the block,I had trained my ear to jump on any utterance of my name. Now,my head is flipping in every direction.
The NZ Prime Minister made the pledge at Labour’s campaign launch where he had to fight far-right protesters to be heard.
Jacinda Ardern has been made a Dame Grand Companion in the King’s Birthday Honours,particularly for leading her nation through a mass shooting and the pandemic.
Ardern,a global icon of the left and an inspiration to women around the world,has been appointed to dual fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School,its dean said.
It is bitterly ironic that our outsized interest in female leaders,particularly beautiful ones,is the very thing we punish them for in the end.
Failure to vote “Yes” in the coming referendum will be a national disgrace. What exactly are the opponents of the Voice afraid of?