The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,commonly known as the Greens,is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world,it has four pillars. The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing and social-democratic economic policies,including well-funded and locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady-state economy. Internationally,it is affiliated with the Global Greens.
The 1999 New Zealand general election was held on 27 November 1999 to determine the composition of the 46th New Zealand Parliament. The governing National Party,led by Prime Minister Jenny Shipley,was defeated,being replaced by a coalition of Helen Clark's Labour Party and the smaller Alliance. This marked an end to nine years of the Fourth National Government,and the beginning of the Fifth Labour Government which would govern for nine years in turn,until its loss to the National Party in the 2008 general election. It was the first New Zealand election where both major parties had female leaders.
Donna Lynn Awatere Huata is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament for the ACT New Zealand Party and activist for Māori causes.
Dame Marilyn Joy Waring is a New Zealand public policy scholar,international development consultant,former politician,environmentalist,feminist and a principal founder of feminist economics.
Christopher Robert Laidlaw is a New Zealand politician and former rugby union player,Rhodes Scholar,public servant,diplomat and radio host.
Katherine Rich served as a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party from 1999 to 2008. She has been chief executive of the New Zealand Food &Grocery Council,an industry lobby group,since 2009.
Dame Kerry Leigh Prendergast is a New Zealand politician who served as the 33rd Mayor of Wellington between 2001 and 2010,succeeding Mark Blumsky. She was the second woman to hold the position,after Fran Wilde.
Sue Bradford is a New Zealand activist,academic,and former New Zealand politician who served as a list Member of Parliament representing the Green Party from 1999 to 2009.
Phillida Bunkle is a former New Zealand politician. She represented the Alliance in Parliament from 1996 to 2002,when she retired. Bunkle was for many years a lecturer at Victoria University.
Jill Ovens is a New Zealand trade unionist and former political candidate. She was co-leader of the Alliance party before changing her allegiance to the Labour Party. She is currently the National Secretary of the Women's Rights Party,a New Zealand-based political party.
The following lists events that happened during 1948 in New Zealand.
Dame Frances Helen Wilde is a New Zealand politician,and former Wellington Labour member of parliament,Minister of Tourism and Mayor of Wellington. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Wellington. She was chairperson of the Greater Wellington Regional Council from 2007 until 2015,and since 2019 she has chaired the board of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Raymond Ahipene-Mercer is a former New Zealand politician,who served as a Wellington City Councillor for the Eastern Ward,only the second Māori to be elected to the Wellington City Council and the first Māori to be elected since 1962. He is also a guitar-maker,musician,and well-known environmentalist,and was one of the leaders of the Clean Water Campaign,which led to the end of sewage pollution of the Wellington coast. He was a candidate for mayor of Wellington in the council elections of 2007,the first Māori ever to contest the position.He was runner-up to the incumbent. As a musician and guitar maker he usually uses the name Ray Mercer,and has used the name Ray Ahipene-Mercer for other purposes including his environmental work and politics.
Dame Margaret Kerslake Shields was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She had three terms in the House of Representatives in the 1980s and was afterwards a member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council,including as chairman.
New Zealand has a unitary system of government in which the authority of the central government defines sub-national entities. Local government in New Zealand has only the powers conferred upon it by the New Zealand Parliament. In general,local authorities are responsible for enabling democratic local decision-making and promoting the social,economic,environmental,and cultural well-being of their communities,as well as more specific functions for which they have delegated authority.
Denise Maree Roche is a New Zealand politician. She was a member of the Waiheke Local Board and the New Zealand House of Representatives,where she represented the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2011 to 2017.
The 1992 Wellington Central by-election was a by-election held in the Wellington Central electorate during the 43rd New Zealand Parliament,on 12 December 1992. It was caused by the resignation of incumbent MP Fran Wilde after her election as mayor of Wellington and was won by Chris Laidlaw with a majority of 855.
Helene Ruth Paula Ritchie is a former local body politician,registered psychologist and mediator,and a board member from Wellington,New Zealand. As Wellington's longest serving City Councillor of over 30 years,she led the Labour team to a majority position on the council. Later,she was the first female deputy mayor and chaired the Wellington Airport Authority and its successor for eight years.
Rosslyn Joy Noonan is a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. She was an organiser for several trade unions and the Labour Party and served for a time in local government. Later she served as New Zealand's Human Rights Commissioner.
Susan Margaret Piper is a retired New Zealand trade unionist and local politician.
