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Women in charge
By Mary Anne Gill
Women are to the fore in Waikato local body politics with four mayors elected to the top jobs - and it’s odds on they will be joined by a fifth female leader when the regional council elects its chair next week. Waipā’s Susan O’Regan was in Wellington for a two-day conference this week with neighbouring Waikato mayors Jacqui Church, Paula Southgate and Adrienne Wilcock. The News, realising the historic nature of the occasion, asked for a photo of the four of them together and the Far North’s first Māori mayor Moko Tepania obliged. Meanwhile back in Hamilton, behind the scenes lobbying is well underway to install either Pamela Storey or
Angela Strange as Waikato Regional Council chair. The News looks at their chances on page two today. Three of the four mayors have chosen female deputies in what is almost certainly a Waikato first. O’Regan had not confirmed Liz Stolwyk when we went to press but throughout her campaign she told voters the Cambridge councillor would be her choice. Church chose second-term councillor Carolyn Eyre as Waikato district’s deputy mayor while Southgate confirmed the popular Angela O’Leary as her Hamilton city second in charge. Wilcock appears to have bucked the trend – sources suggest the deputy’s job in Matamata-
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Leading the way: Jacqui Church, Adrienne Wilcock, Paula Southgate and Susan O’Regan.
Photo: Moko Tepania
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Piako will go to Bruce Dewhurst from Morrinsville. History was also made across the border in Rotorua where new mayor Tania Tapsell chose Sandra Kai Fong as her deputy. Women on Boards New Zealand and Governance New Zealand chair Julie Hardaker- a former Hamilton mayor said having so many women mayors in the Waikato was significant. “It’s really pleasing to see women putting themselves forward,” she said. Local Government New Zealand confirmed 22 – or 33 per cent – of the country’s mayors now are women; up from 30 per cent last term.
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