June 13, 2022 7:26pm by David Farrar

The reshuffle changes

Quite a lot of changes announced today for a minor reshuffle. Key points are:

Trevor Mallard and Kris Faafoi leaving Parliament
Daniel Rosewarne and Soraya Peke-Mason will become new Labour List MPs
Peke-Mason will become the 60th female MP, making Parliament 50/50 in terms of gender for the first time
Adrian Rurawhe will replace Trevor Mallard as Speaker and presumably Jenny Salesa will move from Assistant to Deputy Speaker. A Labour MP will become one of the two Assistant Speakers
Priyanca Radhakrishnan moves into Cabinet
Kieran McAnulty becomes a Minister outside Cabinet
Duncan Webb becomes Chief Whip
Radhakrishnan picks up Associate Workplace Relations
McAnulty gets Emergency Management, Racing, Deputy Leader of the House, Associate Transport and Associate Local Government
Hipkins gains Police from Williams and loses Covid-19 to Verrall, and delegates more in Education to Tinetti.
Verrall gets Covid-19 and Research/Science
Wood gets Immigration
Willie Jackson gets Broadcasting
Kiri Allan gets Justice