As the only Jacinta on the block, I had trained my ear to jump on any utterance of my name. Now, my head is flipping in every direction.
Growing up in the ’80s in the suburbs of Melbourne, nobody was called Jacinta. I had that market cornered. Unlike my friend Kate, who would need to be addressed by her full name to differentiate her from all the other Kates in our class, I was the only Jacinta. It made me feel like Madonna, who didn’t need a surname clarification either.
Then, something terrible happened. The third ever female prime minister of New Zealand had parents who for some reason had dispensed with the T, gone straight for sloppy lips and named her JacinDa ArDern. I went to bed on October 16, 2017, rarefied and woke up the next morning as a bastardised version of my former self. Suddenly, no longer special, I started to get called JacinDa.
Then our mate Dan had to go and throw another spanner in the works. At 5pm on September 27, 2023, Daniel Andrews resigned as premier of Victoria. Beyond the political, social, cultural and economic relevance that this had to the State of Victoria – there were other issues closer to hand. His replacement as premier would be a Jacinta. Jacinta Allan.
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