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| Who is New Zealand's new prime minister? A profile of Jacinda Ardern | Who is New Zealand's new prime minister? A profile of Jacinda Ardern |
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| Full name: Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern. | Full name: Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern. |
| Position: Prime minister of New Zealand. | Position: Prime minister of New Zealand. |
| Age: 37. | Age: 37. |
| Party: Labour | Party: Labour |
| Family life: Lives with her partner TV presenter Clarke Gayford. Has a cat. | Family life: Lives with her partner TV presenter Clarke Gayford. Has a cat. |
| Religion: Agnostic. | Religion: Agnostic. |
| Political credentials: Ardern joined the Labour party at 17. She worked in Tony Blair’s cabinet office and was a staffer for former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark. Elected to parliament in 2008. | Political credentials: Ardern joined the Labour party at 17. She worked in Tony Blair’s cabinet office and was a staffer for former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark. Elected to parliament in 2008. |
| Campaigned on: Making tertiary education free, decriminalising abortion, cutting immigration and lifting children out of poverty. | Campaigned on: Making tertiary education free, decriminalising abortion, cutting immigration and lifting children out of poverty. |
| What voters liked about her: Youthful, confident and credited with having the X-factor that was desperately needed to turn the Labour party into a real contender for power after nine years of a National government. | What voters liked about her: Youthful, confident and credited with having the X-factor that was desperately needed to turn the Labour party into a real contender for power after nine years of a National government. |
| What they didn’t: Inexperienced and untested. | What they didn’t: Inexperienced and untested. |
| Potential problems: Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has said it would be “very difficult to build trust” with a Labour government in New Zealand, accusing the party of collaborating in a plot to destabilise the Australian government after it emerged that the Australian deputy prime minister held dual Australian/New Zealand citizenship. | Potential problems: Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has said it would be “very difficult to build trust” with a Labour government in New Zealand, accusing the party of collaborating in a plot to destabilise the Australian government after it emerged that the Australian deputy prime minister held dual Australian/New Zealand citizenship. |
| Made international headlines when ... Ardern called out sexist questions – about any plans to have a baby – that emerged just hours after she became Labour leader. She said such treatment of women was “unacceptable”. | Made international headlines when ... Ardern called out sexist questions – about any plans to have a baby – that emerged just hours after she became Labour leader. She said such treatment of women was “unacceptable”. |
| In her spare time: Likes to DJ. | In her spare time: Likes to DJ. |
| Interestingly ... Was brought up as a Mormon but left the church over its anti-homosexual stance. Doesn’t drink coffee. | Interestingly ... Was brought up as a Mormon but left the church over its anti-homosexual stance. Doesn’t drink coffee. |
| • This article was amended on 20 October 2017 to correct the spelling of Helen Clark’s surname from Clarke, as it appeared in an earlier version. | • This article was amended on 20 October 2017 to correct the spelling of Helen Clark’s surname from Clarke, as it appeared in an earlier version. |
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