Jenny Shipley
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Dame Jennifer Mary Shipley is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 36th prime minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999. She was the first female prime minister of New Zealand, and the fi
Shipley in 2020
Shipley (centre) with United States President Bill Clinton, 15 September 1999.
Shipley attending the Wellington celebration of the anniversary of suffrage day, 19 September 2013
Winston Peters
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Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician. He has led the political party New Zealand First since he founded it in 1993, and since November 2023 has served as the 25th minister of foreign aff
Jenny Shipley
…rather than face being voted out, and Shipley was elected as his replacement unopposed. She inherited an uneasy coalition with New Zealand First, led by Winston Peters. The coalition was dissolved in August 1998, but Shipley was able to remain in power with the aid of Mauri Pacific, an NZ First splinter group. At the…
Peters in 2024
Peters became an outspoken critic of his party leader, Jim Bolger (pictured in 1992).
Peters on the campaign trail in Auckland, c. 1993
Peters greets US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Auckland Airport in 2008.