New Zealand

A 17-year old midwifery student has become the first woman to win the tractor-pull competition at NZ’s annual agricultural event. 

A group of Māori MPs performed a haka in protest over a bill seeking to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with Māori people.

Following the incident, internet trolls raised the fact that Yvonne Gray is a gay woman, as if that was the cause of the incident. 

Pink marked last Friday’s International Women’s Day by drawing the largest crowds to Eden Park, the country’s national stadium in Auckland.

Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, has married her long-term partner Clarke Gayford in a small private ceremony.

The youngest MP to be elected in Aotearoa/New Zealand Parliament in over 150 years had delivered her maiden speech.

A mother of four was killed over the weekend by her long term partner. She is the 59th woman killed by violence this year in Australia.

New Zealand’s new coalition government has announced plans to scrap gender and sexuality education (RSE) from the curriculum.

Are you for or against Barbie? Writer-director Greta Gerwig piles irony upon irony to finally render the question completely redundant.

Jacinda Ardern announces she’s writing a book, expanding on her unique style of leadership– one that’s kind and able to make a difference.

For the first time, New Zealand has reached an equal number of men and women in its cabinet, with Willow-Jean Prime’s promotion.

Promoting diversity and gender equality, leading with empathy and navigating through a pandemic— here is a list of Ardern’s shining moments.