Laila Jane Harré is a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. She was the first leader of the Internet Party,and stood for Parliament in the 2014 general election through the Helensville electorate. From 1996 to 2002,she was a Member of Parliament for the Alliance party,briefly leading that party after the group experienced a schism in 2002.
Richard Westwood Worth is a former New Zealand politician of the New Zealand National Party. He was the Member of Parliament for Epsom from 1999 to 2005 and a list MP from 2005 to 2009.
Brian Kevin Neeson is a New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1990 to 2002,representing the National Party,and a member of the WaitematāDistrict Health Board from 2004 to 2010.
Maryan Street is a New Zealand unionist and former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives,having been elected to parliament in the 2005 general election as a member of the New Zealand Labour Party. She served as the Minister of Housing and Minister for ACC in the final years of the Fifth Labour Government and was the first openly gay female MP elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
Darien Elizabeth Fenton is a New Zealand politician and was a Member of Parliament from 2005 until her retirement in 2014.
Paula Lee Bennett is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 18th deputy prime minister of New Zealand between December 2016 and October 2017. She served as the deputy leader of the National Party from 2016 to 2020 and as MP for Upper Harbour from 2014 to 2020.
Jacqueline Diane Miller,commonly known as Jackie Blue,is a New Zealand politician and former member of Parliament for the National Party.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) rights in New Zealand are among the most progressive in the world. The protection of LGBT rights is advanced,relative to other countries in Oceania,and is one of the most liberal in the world,with the country being the first in the region and thirteenth in the world to enact same-sex marriage.
Waitakere was a parliamentary electorate,returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The electorate was first formed for the 1946 election and existed until 2014,with breaks from 1969 to 1978 and from 1987 to 1993. The last MP for Waitakere was Paula Bennett of the National Party,who had held this position since the 2008 election.
Louisa Hareruia Wall is a New Zealand Labour Party politician,who currently serves as a list Member of Parliament. She has represented New Zealand in both netball as a Silver Fern and rugby union as a member of the Black Ferns.
Rahui Reid Katene is a New Zealand politician. She was elected to the 49th New Zealand Parliament at the 2008 general election representing the Māori Party in the seat of Te Tai Tonga,but lost in the 2011 general election to Labour's Rino Tirikatene.
Carmel Jean Sepuloni is a New Zealand politician and a member of parliament for the Labour Party. She was first elected to Parliament following the 2008 general election as a list member,becoming New Zealand's first MP of Tongan descent. In the 2011 general election,Sepuloni won the seat of Waitakere on the official count with an eleven-vote majority over incumbent National MP Paula Bennett,who subsequently requested a judicial recount,which resulted in Sepuloni losing her seat in Parliament. She returned to Parliament in 2014 as the member for Kelston.
The Human Rights Amendment Act 2007 is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 2007. It removed an exemption from the Human Rights Act 1993 which barred women from serving in combat roles in the New Zealand Defence Force.
Scott Anthony Simpson is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the National Party.
Tracey Anne Martin is a New Zealand politician and a former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. Until 2021 she was a member of the New Zealand First Party,and served as its Deputy Leader from 2013 to 2015. She served as Minister for Children,Seniors,Internal Affairs and Associate Minister of Education from 2017 to 2020. Martin lost her seat in Parliament during the 2020 New Zealand general election.
Mojo Celeste Mathers is a New Zealand politician and a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Green Party. She became known through her involvement with the Malvern Hills Protection Society and helped prevent the Central Plains Water Trust's proposal to build a large irrigation dam in Coalgate. She was a senior policy advisor to the Green Party between 2006 and 2011. Mathers was elected to the 50th term of Parliament in 2011,becoming the country's first deaf Member of Parliament.
Munokoa Poto Williams has served as a member of Parliament in the New Zealand Labour Party parliamentary caucus since the 2013 Christchurch East by-election. She became the second Cook Islander elected to the New Zealand Parliament –after Alfred Ngaro.
Dr Parmjeet Parmar is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party and became the first Indian-born woman to become a Member of the New Zealand Parliament. She was appointed as the Opposition Spokesperson for Research,Science and Innovation from 3 November 2017,and Statistics on 16 July 2020 and Opposition Associate Spokesperson for Economic Development on 12 March 2018. She was made the Chairperson of the Education and Workforce Select Committee in her second term from 14 May 2018 to until the end of that term and the Deputy Chairperson of the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee in her first term.
Maria Josina Elisabeth "Marja" Lubeck is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
The New Zealand Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand that amends the law to decriminalise abortion. Under the act,abortion is available without restrictions to any woman who is not more than 20 weeks pregnant. Women seeking an abortion after 20 weeks have to be assessed by a qualified health professional.
