For a woman of small stature, Janet Mackey, one of Gisborne’s longest-serving Labour MPs, was a real fighter.
Mackey died on Monday after a short illness. She was 71.
In her parliamentary life she had a number of firsts.
The most notable was when she was joined by daughter Moana in Parliament, regarded as the first time a mother and daughter served together in a Westminster-...
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