Sue Kedgley has been a Green Party MP since 1999.
She has been a safe food campaigner for many years and was a founder of the Safe Food Campaign in New Zealand and the National Food Safety Network. She helped secure the Green budget bid for a $3 million dollar Nutrition Fund for schools and is working closely with the Minister of Health on the Food & Nutrition Guidelines for Schools.
She has an MA (Hons) in Political Science, and is the author or co-author of seven books, the most recent one entitled ‘Eating Safely in a Toxic World’.
She was a Wellington City Councillor for 7 years, a TV reporter/director/producer for 8 years, and worked for 8 years in the United Nations Secretariat, promoting women's issues and organising international conferences.
She is married to Denis Foot and is the mother of 18 year old Zac.
Green Party Spokesperson on: Food, Health and Wellbeing (Preventative Health, Complementary Health, Environmental Health, Nutrition, Aged Care), Local Government, Environment (Toxics), Transport (Wellington), Animal Welfare, Older Persons, Alcohol and other Drugs, Broadcasting, Civil Defence, Consumer Affairs.
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A proposal to set up a stand-alone New Zealand regulator for natural health products has been developed by the Green Party and the Government. A consultation paper on this proposal has been released by the Ministry of Health today.
TVNZ’s proposal to make savage cuts to its news and current affairs is an idiotic strategy worthy of the bosses of the Dilbert comic strip, said Green Party Broadcasting spokesperson Sue Kedgley.
New Zealand must require food products containing palm oil to be labelled, in light of the latest report from Greenpeace, Green Party Food spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today.
I was called yesterday by a man who works as an electricity meter reader and who cant be here tonight. He phoned me to say that he cares passionately about saving Radio New Zealand because it is such an important part of his life. He listens to Radio New Zealand all day long, and says it keeps him sane, as well as well informed, and he looks upon it as his university of life. And that is the case for thousands of New Zealanders, myself included.
Support Radio NZ in the face of Government cuts...
Transport Minister Stephen Joyce should start looking at cut-backs to roading before attacking the elderly’s right to get about, said Green Party Aged Care spokesperson Sue Kedgley.

Green MP Sue Kedgley hilights the fact that the National Govt's policy of freezing funding to Radio NZ will lead to cuts and a diminished service for New Zealanders.