Maiden speeches: 'Why do we get up in the morning, if not to change the world?'
10 Feb, 2021 05:45 AM
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New Greens MP Elizabeth Kerekere has written a bill for sexual diverse people. Photo / NZH
Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade
Maiden speeches are continuing to be given by the cohort of new MPs this term - on Wednesday it was the Greens' Elizabeth Kerekere, Act's Brooke Van Velden and Damien Smith and Labour's Rachel Boyack and Rachel Brooking.
Elizabeth Kerekere - The Greens
With her loved ones dressed in her favourite colour - purple - looking down from Parliament's gallery Elizabeth Kerekere swore to fight for those with diverse sex characteristics.