Green Maiden Speeches
Green backbenchers Chlöe Swarbrick and Golriz Ghahraman just gave their maiden speeches recently.
maiden speeches
Labour maidens – Greg O’Connor
Greg O’Connor talks about how his time with police led him to Labour.
Labour maidens – Willow-Jean Prime
“It means protecting and growing our rights as people, not just as economic units, health clients, “clients” of any kind.”
A strong start by Willow-Jean Prime.
Michael Wood’s maiden statement
Having soundly thrashed National in the Mount Roskill by election, new MP Michael Wood made his maiden statement to Parliament yesterday.
Maiden speeches continued
Felix recommended Denise Roche’s maiden speech and I can see why.
It’s good to see some strong left voices entering parliament.
New Labour MPs first speeches
The four new Labour MPs make their first (“maiden”) speeches today in Parliament, starting at 5pm. I’d expect to hear some thoughtful and moving speeches.
Labour’s maiden speeches
Rather than decorating their tree, some committed Labour Party staffer seems still to be hard at work posting maiden speeches to YouTube. The […]
Courting the ethnic vote
I’ve just watched the first part of the Address in Reply debate which included maiden speeches by two new National Party MPs – […]