Almost six years ago on an autumn Wednesday afternoon in suburbia, with a five month old baby in tow, I completed a sizeable grocery shop at a major supermarket chain. Visits to the supermarket are ra…
Must-watch: Jacinda Ardern’s interview with The Project’s Waleed Aly
It began with a handshake, quickly followed by a hug. This was no ordinary political interview. It was never going to be because New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Ardern is no ordinary leader and The Pro…
Jacinda Ardern proves there is another way to lead.
Since the merciless murder of 50 worshippers in Christchurch last Friday the extraordinary leadership and composure and decency and courage of Jacinda Ardern has been manifest. There have been thousan…
If the Christchurch gunman isn’t a day of reckoning for Australia, what will be?
It is the worst of times. There aren’t words to describe the massacre of 50 innocent worshippers, men, women and children, on Friday in Christchurch, in the solitude of prayers in their place of worsh…
A truly inclusive society requires political restraint
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Terrible tragedies test leaders to the full. Anyone watching from afar must be impressed with the way in which Jacinda Ardern has dealt with the aftermath of t…
