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Join your hosts, Aimee, and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap as they chat to New Zealand Labour Party MP's Jenny Salesa MP, and Terisa Ngobi - MP for Ōtaki about housing, ethnic communities, unemployment, crime, gangs, public transport, lowering the voting age, increasing the seats in parliament, and more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCZ3Huqvik...25/09/2023Hon Jenny Salesa MP is MP for the #panmure-#Ōtāhuhu electorate, in which she lives with her two daughters, husband and extended family. She is the Assistant Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives and Chair of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee.Jenny graduated from the University of Auckland with a BA/LLB in 1996. She has 25 years’ experience working as a public servant in the New Zealand health and education sectors, with NGOs and as a politician. She has also spent time living and working in America, where she implemented, and spread to other cities, an evidence-based health initiative developed in Michigan.She was the MP for the Manukau East electorate from 2014 to 2020 and, following the 2020 boundary changes, was elected as the MP for Panmure-Ōtāhuhu. She was Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Tongan-born Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister.Terisa Ngobi - MP for Ōtaki is born, raised and educated in Levin; a proud #horowhenua local.She has three children with her Husband Henry who is originally from Uganda, Africa. Terisa is of Samoan and Scottish heritage predominately and therefore identifies as a Pasifika/Scotts woman, however also acknowledges her Chinese, German and Irish ancestry.Terisa sits on two select committees, Social Services and Transport.She is the Chair of the Infrastructure, Environment and Transport Caucus and Labour Co-Chair of the Parliamentary Champions for Accessibility Legislation (PCAL) Group. Further Terisa sits on the Pacific, Union, Rural and Women’s Caucus’ and the Asia, Africa and Pacific Parliamentary Friendship Groups.