Newly elected MP Dana Kirkpatrick has told Parliament she is “staunchly East Coast” and had a “quintessential rural New Zealand” upbringing.
Delivering her maiden speech in Parliament yesterday, the National Party MP for East Coast said she was “born and raised in Gisborne, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, in a small village called Patutahi in the valley known as Ngatapa.
“It is a place I proudly...
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