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Rachel Brooking (she/her)
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Rachel Brooking (she/her)
@BrookingRachel
Labour MP for Dunedin & Environment, Food Safety, & Space Spokesperson. Past co director & RMA lawyer. LLB BSc. Authorised by R Salmond 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wgtn
Ōtepoti / Dunedin
Joined October 2014
- Spent some of Father’s Day chatting to my dad about dental policy and the awesome policy to make dental care free - starting with 18-30yos. Will make many lives healthier and less painful 🦷
- In today’s OTD a photo from 1996! @grantrobertson1 , Chris Tozer, and me in ‘discussion’ with then Otago Uni chancellor and v-c. Lesson for my kids - photos from 24 years ago can still pop up in the local paper!
- Labour & National have very DIFFERENT RMA replacement ideas Labour’s is based on considered Randerson Report with move 2 spatial plans, focus on housing, environmental limits, climate change adaptation, reduced complexity & number of plans. National wd destroy integrated env mgmtLabour's announced it would repeal the resource management act – a policy National's already announced thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-10…
- Tony! You found my timeline but don’t know me? Introductions then. Lawyer, company director, environmentalist, mother, MP, and staunch defender of people’s rights to love who they choose ❤️🌈Replying to @EerykMcRae and @nzlabourNever heard of rachel brooking before this. Never want to hear of her again.
- Friends - party vote Labour to get me across the line. That’s the tweet.
- Very exciting day for me today - sworn in by the CJ (GG away) followed by my first visit as a Minister to talk 🐟🙏
- 🦠 Unfortunately I have Covid so am staying at home while I get over it. So Dunedin won’t see me out and about over the next few days.
- Thanks @NZStuffPolitics 4 the acknowledgment. I ❤️ working on RMA reform, 🏡🏙, & covid orders. But for my part ‘Chris of the year’ has 2 go 2 my enabling husband @drkiwicj keeping things going in Dunedin while I’m away 1/2 time & caring 4 patients - a super ⭐️
- “I want politics to change... doesn’t have to be about mud-slinging... got to have robust debate... a place where people see themselves...” Agree with Jacinda Ardern #LetsKeepMoving
- Big 24 hours for me. Reflecting on 20 years of marriage to @drkiwicj with a whole lot of gratitude ❤️🙏 Chairing my first FEC Representing Minister Woods at the dawn blessing of the wonderful Taiwai housing development at Te Pā Tāhuna #besthusband #bestjob #Otago
