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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021
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The Labour Party’s annual retreat was not held at Martinborough this year, a break from recent tradition. Instead, the caucus met in Nelson. As politicians muck in for another year, Wairarapa MP Kieran McAnulty has reflected on the mission he has as Wairarapa’s electorate MP. McAnulty earned a resounding victory in October’s general election, having served one term as a Labour list MP. His ageing ute, closing in on 500,000km, is a frequent sight on Wairarapa roads, as he traverses the fourth-largest general electorate in the North Island, stretching from Cape Palliser to the Heretaunga Plains. The constituency, close to 9000km2, takes in five district councils, and three regional authorities. McAnulty lives in Masterton, which is about central to the constituency borders [“About two hours from the Cape [Palliser] and two hours
from Waipukurau”], The former Masterton District Council staffer’s job involves conversations with councillors from his old employers, and South Wairarapa, Carterton, Tararua, and Central Hawke’s Bay districts. Those territories are cut between three regional councils, meaning meetings with Horizons, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington representatives are also on the calendar. But the complexity of the relationships is simply a product of the size and diversity of the area. “Five district mayors, three regional councillors, and six newspapers,” he said. “A lot of electorates have a communal sense of identity. Whereas there are three distinct regions [in the electorate], each facing different things.”. McAnulty used two prominent issues, social housing and freshwater,
as examples of different approaches across his patch. He has prioritised finding a fix to an ongoing lack of affordable housing in his patch’s three southernmost districts. The Kainga Ora national housing department has little or no presence in southern Wairarapa, having sold all Housing Corporation houses to the Trust House company. “Take housing, for example. If I were to say I need to bring Kainga Ora back to this electorate, then I wouldn’t be talking about the solutions needed in Hawke’s Bay, as they’re already there.” And the three regional councils offer slightly different approaches to their application of water management, he said. “When you’re dealing with different councils, you’ve always got the possibility of the different interpretations of the rules, or a different application of those rules for the areas they service. Continued on page 4
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