{"id":303250,"date":"2026-02-26T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303250\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:50:10","slug":"former-prime-minister-dame-jacinda-ardern-moving-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303250\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern moving to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDame Jacinda Ardern.
\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n

Dame Jacinda Ardern is moving to Australia.<\/p>\n

The news comes after an Australia real estate website reported the former New Zealand prime minister<\/a> had been house hunting for properties in Sydney’s northern beaches.<\/p>\n

According to RealEstate.com.au, Ardern and husband Clarke Gayford were seen looking at homes for sale in Curl Curl and Freshwater.<\/p>\n

The website puts the median price for homes in Curl Curl at AUD$4.1 million (NZD$4.8m) with a growth of 6 percent in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

In Freshwater, RealEstate.com.au said the median price was $3.9m.<\/p>\n

In a statement, a spokesman for Ardern said her family had been travelling “for a few years now”.<\/p>\n

“For the moment they’re basing themselves out of Australia – they have work there, and it brings the added bonus of more time back home in New Zealand.”<\/p>\n

Ardern, Gayford and 7-year-old daughter, Neve Gayford, had been living in the United States where Ardern was working for Harvard University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She is also a trustee of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In March 2025, Ardern joined Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government as a Distinguished Fellow<\/a> and member of the world leaders circle.<\/p>\n

Ardern also recent released a memoir<\/a>, A Different Kind of Power, and a children’s book<\/a>, Mum’s Busy Work.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dame Jacinda Ardern. Photo: RNZ Dame Jacinda Ardern is moving to Australia. The news comes after an Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-303250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}