gettyimages-124002635.jpg Metiria Turei paid tribute to two women who inspired her, the late Helen Kelly, and former Greens-co-leader Jeannette Fitzsimon, in her speech. "I want to thank every one of those Green and Labour women MPs today. "I don't need to ask the values of the people here, or to look up feminism in the dictionary, unlike [Prime Minister] Bill English. She paid tribute to two women who inspired her, the late Helen Kelly, and former Greens-co-leader Jeannette Fitzsimon, in her state of the nation speech in Auckland today. "Now we have a new Prime Minister who believes Government can do no more - a Prime Minister who won't end poverty, a Prime Minister who is the architect of the housing crisis, a Prime Minister who accepts locking out an entire generation from warm, safe and affordable housing."

Source: Otago Daily Times January 29, 2017 02:36 UTC