Event #120

Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power

Sun 11 Oct 2026

Jacinda Ardern + Trent Dalton

Brisbane City Hall

Special Event / Regular Program

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power

In conversation with Trent Dalton
5–6pm, Sunday 11th October, Brisbane City Hall

In 2017, Jacinda Ardern became the world’s youngest female head of government when she was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand: she was thirty-seven years old and pregnant with her first child. Through manifold personal and professional challenges, from the pandemic to parenting in the public eye, she led with humanity and grace, modelling a new kind of leadership. In A Different Kind of Power, Ardern tells her story with candour and warmth, reminding us of what’s possible from our leaders.

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Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern was elected prime minister of New Zealand in 2017 at the age of thirty-seven and became the country’s youngest prime minister in more than 150 years.

In 2018, she gave birth to her daughter, Neve, and became the first leader of a country in thirty years to give birth while in office.

In 2023, she was awarded the accolade Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She now spends her time writing, speaking, learning, and being a mum.

You can follow Jacinda Ardern on Instagram and X @JacindaArdern.

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories, Lola in the Mirror and Gravity Let Me Go. Lola in the Mirror was the winner of the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the 2023 QBD Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Dymocks 2023 Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards, the 2024 Book People Fiction Book of the Year and the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. It has sold over 320,000 copies across all formats since publication in October 2023. The Boy Swallows Universe television series, which aired in January 2024, was Netflix’s most successful Australian-made show to date. It ranked in the top 10 in 52 countries and reached the number one spot in Australia, number four in the UK and number six in the US.