Hamilton West

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Just a reminder from here in Hamilton West to vet your candidates properly before risking voting for them.

As Associate Minister for Housing, Tama Portaka oversaw the largest increase in homelessness on record.

And his counterpart in Hamilton East actually introduced the move-on laws that advocates and experts have called cruel and doesn't deal with the drivers of homelessness.

Make sure you know exactly where it is that you're putting your tick for your electorate this year.

Hello there, kia ora.

Let's expand on Hamilton West a little bit, OK, because this is a really fascinating electorate.

During first past the post, this was a bellwether seat.

So great to have you here.

Candidate for Hamilton West for the Greens.

Do you want to quickly intro yourself to our audience? You've been on the podcast before, maybe four or five years ago to talk about local politics, taking the step up.

Yeah.

Thanks for having me.

I can't believe you assumed your listeners would not have, of course, recalled that one episode from five years ago.

So I am the Hamilton West candidate for the Green Party this year.

I'm number 19 on our list.

However, look, we'll get onto that and discuss it.

But what are the people that I thought... you would have quite a lot in common with, who was in Parliament for my first term, was a gentleman called Mike Minogue, who was one time mayor of Hamilton and then became the member for Hamilton West, I think, from he beat Dorothy Jelicich in 75 and lost to Trevor Mallard in 84.

But you had a...

A text, I think, from another former colleague who wanted to comment on Mike and his role.