Sue Kedgley

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Parl.	Electorate	List Pos.	Party
46th	List	6	Greens
47th	List	5	Greens
48th	List	4 → 3	Greens

Sue Kedgley (born 1948), BA (Victoria University), TTC (Auckland University), MA (Hons) (Otago University), a New Zealand politician, has represented the Green Party in the New Zealand Parliament since first becoming a Member of Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections. She won re-election in the 2002 and 2005 elections. She currently fills the 3rd slot on the Green Party list. Particular political interests include health, food safety, animal welfare and women's issues.

Before entering national politics, Kedgley served on the Wellington City Council for 7 years, also under the Green Party banner, and convened the New Zealand Safe Food Campaign. She also worked for the United Nations in New York for 8 years and for a decade as a television reporter, director and producer in New Zealand. Kedgley has written a number of books on Feminism-issues, and was one of the founding leaders of the women's liberation movement in New Zealand. Her most recent book, titled Eating Safely in a Toxic World, has set the scene in New Zealand for a new movement of 'Safe-food campaigners'.

Kedgley is currently the Chair of the NZ Parliament Health Committee. She is married to Wellington lawyer and former Wellington City and Regional Councillor, Denis Foot and they have one son.