When

03 Mar 2026, 6:00pm

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Tickets

Adult
$59
Festival Friends
$50
Concession*
$47
Under 40**
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Full-time student^
$40

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Duration

1hr

Who can forget the authenticity of the moment when New Zealand’s 40th prime minister hugged a traumatised witness to the Christchurch massacre? In that instant, Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern became a symbol of a different kind of leadership – empathetic, and genuine.

She describes herself as conscientious, anxious, never confident she was good enough for the job she accepted out of a “grinding sense of responsibility”. Even her resignation in 2023 was surprisingly honest: she just didn’t have “enough in the tank” to fight another election. A conversation about women and power.

Participants

Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern

Sarah Ferguson

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