Megan Woods

Jim Anderton retired from politics in 2011 and handed the torch to Woods, who turned the candidate elect for Wigram. When she gained the seat and arrived in parliament in 2011, Christchurch was broken. There had solely been one earthquake in September 2010, when she secured the candidacy for Wigram.

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“I look on the job I have now as the best job I’ll ever have. It’s the flexibility to change things, and that’s an absolute privilege,” she says, for once the smile dropping from her face. Woods was a member of the Alliance Party from 1999 till 2002, when she joined the breakaway Progressive Party. She was concerned in a number of of Jim Anderton’s re-election campaigns. She contested the Christchurch Central citizens within the 2005 basic election and got here fourth, receiving 1077 votes (3.2% of the voters votes). As the party obtained only 1.2% of the get together vote, she didn’t enter Parliament that year.

She just isn’t remotely tired, and she dismisses the suggestion with a shake of her head, as if drained is an annoyance she merely does not have time for. She’s the minister you’ve heard extra from within the last 12 months than almost some other. Whenever something goes pear-shaped within the Labour cabinet, her name only has to be uttered and she or he’s there. She’s also the minister for energy and resources, science and innovation, and the Greater Christchurch regeneration.

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The system still isn’t good, but the streamlining of returning New Zealanders into lodge and quarantine facilities has meant that, aside from escapees, instances of Covid-19 are routinely caught on the border. Community transmission has not been seen in the country in additional than 90 days. The New Zealand authorities’s Covid-19 response has been internationally praised, and our dying toll is the bottom within the OECD.

• It’s no marvel she says she loves her pajamas, the sofa, and Netflix when she finally gets home.
• We agree it is the purest form of the game, and Woods goes one further.
• “It was really clear that it was going to be a major project for any MP, whether or not you were in authorities or not.
• During the 2020 general election, Woods retained her seat of Wigram by a last margin of 14,770 votes.
• National won the 2011 election, but Woods received her electorate, and Christchurch was the highest of her priority record.

Megan Woods doesn’t appear to have taken a moment to mirror on that. Shortly after I depart her, a family of 5 escapes from isolation in Hamilton, and she points a statement. The following morning, a Saturday, she fronts as much as a presser about the escapees the place, for the first time, you’ll be able to see her positivity slip somewhat.