I'm a mum with two kids at primary school. I work for myself in a consultancy business. And I’m a regular commentator on Newstalk ZB and Radio New Zealand.

We live in a semi-rural area with a small number of animals and a commercial greenhouse on our property. Just like in other parts of New Zealand, brilliant young people are growing up wondering what future our country will have for them. Where their parents are battling to pay bills while their incomes are stalled. I want to fight for them.

I was a manager at New Zealand’s international aid and development agency, NZAID, and at the OECD in Paris, working with governments around the world to reduce extreme poverty in some of the world’s poorest places.

I’ve been a Beehive press secretary and worked in the prime minister’s office. I’m proud to say I worked for the election in 1999 of a fair and decent Labour government that created jobs, supported small businesses and lifted many families out of poverty. I helped to develop and run campaigns that delivered paid parental leave and four weeks annual leave.

I was born in New Zealand and grew up in England where I went to university. I lived in a small working village where I learnt to ride horses, drive a tractor and hunt.

I will fight for jobs in Rangitikei, and a future we can all look forward to. When people have good jobs, they have choices and opportunities. Whatever work you do, you deserve the dignity of earning a decent wage.

I will fight to keep the cost of living down and wages up.

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