Sue Bradford
| Sue Bradford | |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green Party List |
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In office 1999 – 30 October 2009 |
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| Succeeded by | David Clendon |
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| Born | 1 July 1952 |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
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Green Party (1990–2011) Mana Party (2011–2014) |
Sue Bradford (born 1 July 1952 in Auckland) is a New Zealand activist, academic, and former New Zealand politician who served as a list Member of Parliament representing the Green Party from 1999 to 2009.
Sue Bradford graduated from the University of Auckland in History and Political Studies, and later obtained a MA in Chinese. Furthering her academic education she undertook postgraduate study at the University of Canterbury where she received a diploma in journalism. She has also spent time on the unemployment benefit and the domestic purposes benefit.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Bradford had a high profile as an activist against various social and economic reforms pursued by the governments of the day. Accordingly, she became something of a bête noire amongst supporters of the right in New Zealand.
As a member of the Green Party, Bradford first won election to the Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections. She had joined the Green Party in 1990, and had contested the 1998 Auckland mayoral election as the Green candidate. Before joining the Greens, she worked actively in the NewLabour Party, and served as its president from 1989 to 1990.
As of 2005[update] Bradford was the Green Party spokesperson on ACC, Agriculture, Buy Kiwi-Made, Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Economic Development, Gambling, Housing, Industrial Relations, Internal Affairs, Mental Health, National Library and Archives, Racing, Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Small Business and Social Development.
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