{"id":456738,"date":"2026-06-02T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456738\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:05:08","slug":"dame-jacinda-ardern-former-pm-enjoying-private-life-in-sydney-but-still-wants-to-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456738\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Jacinda Ardern: Former PM enjoying private life in Sydney but still wants to \u2018change the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
The former Prime Minister said her transition from the top of politics to a private life was less intense than she thought, in part thanks to keeping busy.<\/p>\n
Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern has reflected on her move to Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been out for about three years now, and that time has passed really quickly,\u201d Ardern said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI keep busy writing, still work on projects I care about, and I work on leadership. So it\u2019s been a busy time, but more family time as well, which is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ardern said she also enjoys the privacy being out of the spotlight brings, but made it clear she\u2019ll still be involved with public life in some capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are things I want to change in the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ardern did completely rule out entering Australian politics at all, but mentioned how she believes one of the key lessons she took from her time as Prime Minister was a belief in people\u2019s capacity for compassion in the hardest moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m an optimist, always will be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that I still carry with me is the humanity that always shines through in the darkest of times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ardern emphasised that this message was important for younger people growing up with technological change and global conflicts, with leaders having a responsibility to show that more often.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we owe our young people for them to see more humanity in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Prime Minister said her transition from the top of politics to a private life was less…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,13176,1135,3013,12974,2947,63701,4527,21534,161414,2740,78,13175,424,4188,661,1073,6722,111,43,139,69,16422,415,1136,3109,1527,46028,6100,1734,223,61,6859,14638,377],"class_list":["post-456738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-ardern","tag-australian","tag-but","tag-change","tag-dame","tag-ditch","tag-doesnt","tag-enjoying","tag-enjoys","tag-former","tag-in","tag-jacinda","tag-life","tag-living","tag-major","tag-media","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pm","tag-prime","tag-private","tag-public","tag-return","tag-rule","tag-still","tag-sydney","tag-the","tag-to","tag-told","tag-wants","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456738","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=456738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}