{"id":473445,"date":"2026-06-12T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473445\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:46:09","slug":"jacinda-ardern-jokes-about-aussie-kiwi-talent-theft-at-aria-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473445\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern jokes about Aussie \u2018Kiwi talent theft\u2019 at Aria Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt is such a pleasure to join you this evening to induct into the Hall of Fame a musician who calls both New Zealand and Australia home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as is the case with any such origin story, there is usually a score to settle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, as I prepared for this evening, I took great delight in writing up a list of every Kiwi talent you have claimed until I realised this next inductee is different. And may just be the olive branch our two nations need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacinda Ardern and Jenny Morris speak onstage during the 40th Anniversary Aria Hall of Fame. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Morris achieved success in New Zealand as the singer in the band the Crocodiles, then on both sides of the Tasman as a solo artist.<\/p>\n
Morris, who was born in Tokoroa and brought up in Hamilton, thanked Ardern for her achievements, calling her a huge inspiration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for being born and achieving all the things you achieved, helping all the people you helped, sharing your profound wisdom and having such a hot husband.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ardern lives in Sydney with husband Clarke Gayford and their daughter Neve, after a spell in the United States where she took up dual fellowships at Harvard University.<\/p>\n
Ardern resigned as Prime Minister on January 25, 2023, saying she \u201cdidn\u2019t have enough in the tank\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jenny Morris was the lead singer for the Crocodiles in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n
As well as working at the university, she became a trustee of Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Prize and published a memoir, A Different Kind of Power, along with a children\u2019s book, Mum\u2019s Busy Work.<\/p>\n
Ardern previously told the Sydney Morning Herald the family would spend \u201ca little bit of time\u201d in Australia instead of returning to New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the main attractions for us was the proximity to home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d been far away for a while, and we wanted to be closer to friends and family, but also wanted to get back to a life that was, you know, a bit like what we might have in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we don\u2019t have a set timeframe. We\u2019ve never been much for five-year plans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is such a pleasure to join you this evening to induct into the Hall of Fame a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1443,27605,13176,10004,1975,2937,85,430,168,2837,156,39275,2740,53840,57236,13175,38887,194,6722,111,139,69,1118,415,1734,5824,14168,6382,80],"class_list":["post-473445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-about","tag-appearance","tag-ardern","tag-aria","tag-at","tag-aussie","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-ceremony","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-fame","tag-former","tag-friendly","tag-hall","tag-jacinda","tag-jokes","tag-kiwi","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-prime","tag-sydney","tag-talent","tag-theft","tag-took","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473445","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=473445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}