Labour's Conservation and Emergency Management Minister Kiri Allan has returned to work at Parliament, three months after a cervical cancer diagnosis. Allan says she has a real fervent fire in her belly to get back into the mahi (work). "The body is feeling a lot better today than it did prior to taking leave and that's something that I've really welcomed. "Particularly for me I've always lived a 'go hard or go home' type ethos in that approach ... to work. "I think I've come back with a renewed sense of what it is that I want to do whilst I'm here and whilst I have the privilege of being here, however long that may be."

Source: Otago Daily Times July 04, 2021 21:56 UTC