10 Oct 2022

New Mayors: Tory Whanau in Wellington

From First Up, 5:50 am on 10 October 2022

Centre-right candidates won big in the local elections over the weekend, which some commentators saw as a rebuke of the current government. One of the few candidates to buck that trend was former Green Party chief of staff Tory Whanau, who is the new Mayor of Wellington. Nathan Rarere asked how she managed to succeed where so many other centre-left candidates failed.