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Sue Kedgley, a New Zealand politician, is a Member of Parliament representing the Green Party. She first entered the New Zealand Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections, and won re-election in the 2002 elections. She is currently ranked 4th on the Green party list. Particular political intersts include health, food safety, animal welfare and women's issues.
Before entering national politics, she served on the Wellington City Council, also under the Green Party banner and was Convenor of the New Zealand Safe Food Campaign. She has also worked for the United Nations and as a television reporter and prior to that in the New Zealand television industry as a director, producer and reporter for TVNZ. Kedgley has written a number of books on Feminism issues and is regarded as a founding leader of the Womens Liberation movement in New Zealand. He most recent book titled Eating Safely in a Toxic World, has set the scene in New Zealand for a new movement of 'Safe food campaigners'.
External links
- Sue Kedgley biography (Green Party website)
- Sue Kedgley biography (NZ Parliament website)