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- Electorate & list
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- elections-wikipedia
- As of
- 4 May 2026
Background
Hon Barbara Edmonds is a Labour Party member of Parliament representing the Mana electorate [33] [20] . According to a secondary source, Edmonds was educated at Carmel College, where she is reported to have served as Head Girl [7] [5]…
AI-assembled biography sourced from Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive and the Parliament register. Every claim is footnoted to a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources and tagged confirmed / unverified / disputed.
Pecuniary interests
2025 register · as of 27 May 2026As a sitting MP, this candidate files an annual Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests. Items below are the most recent declarations from the Register.
- Debts owed by you
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ANZ Bank ANZ Bank – mortgage
- Gifts
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AIA Insurance All Blacks rugby tickets (x2) and hospitality – AIA InsuranceANZ Match tickets and hospitality for ANZ Netball Cup semi-final (x2 tickets) and final (x1 ticket) and Silver Ferns (x1 ticket), as part of Parliamentary Netball Team – ANZTennis Auckland Tennis tickets (x2) and hospitality – Tennis Auckland
- Overseas travel costs
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Insurance Council of New Zealand England – meetings with global reinsurers. Contributor to travel: Insurance Council of New Zealand.
- Real property
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Family home (jointly owned) – PoriruaFamily home (jointly owned) – Ōtāhuhu, Auckland
- Retirement schemes
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Milford KiwiSaver Milford KiwiSaver (active growth fund)
Recent press
50 articles across 6 outletsRNZ 14
- Top economist casts doubt on Nicola Willis' surplus
- 'Just need to vote for it': Nicola Willis ends Budget speech with call to arms for supporters
- 'Immediate pain, cuts and no plan': Opposition attacks Budget 2026
- 'The right Budget for the times', Nicola Willis says on eve of big reveal
- Labour leader slams 'ridiculous' exercise that saw Finance Minister called 'duck-faced horse'
- Labour's Barbara Edmonds apologises for calling Nicola Willis 'duck-faced horse'
- Winston wins again - no cuts for MFAT
- Winston Peters wins again - no cuts for MFAT in new Budget
- Labour holds off on Future Fund details until after election
- Public sector job cuts: 'Nobody is above scrutiny'
- NZ First promise to buy BNZ 'outlandish' - economist
- NZ First plan to buy BNZ back 'headline-grabbing' rather than serious policy - economist
- Judith Collins: The farewell as rebranding job Interview
- Unemployment expected to get worse as fuel crisis impact yet to be felt
Stuff 9
- ‘We are concerned’ about hospitality failures, but can’t repeat Labour’s mistakes, PM says
- Minister defends claiming $1000 allowance for mortgage-free apartment – but won’t say what her costs are
- Hipkins calls Labour training exercise ‘ridiculous’ after ‘duck-faced horse’ slur error was made
- Leaked audio: Labour MPs mock National rivals as ‘duck-sized horses’ and ‘sitting ducks’ in bizarre training session
- ‘Literally everything’s taxed’ in Australia - and some across the ditch ‘see NZ as a bit of a tax haven’
- Nicola Willis says no to selling Kiwibank without asking Kiwis first
- The grand solution Wayne Brown believes has New Zealand’s best interests at heart
- New Zealand faces ‘massive negative energy shock’, OECD warns
- Hipkins says sorry to Willis: ‘I had no idea what she was upset about. I now do. I’ve apologised’
1News 8
- Top economist casts doubt on Willis' surplus forecast
- 'No hope, no plan': Opposition parties react to Budget 2026
- Five Big Things That Happened Today: Tuesday, May 26
- News in 90 Seconds May 26
- 'Pretty regrettable': Hipkins on MP's 'duck-faced horse' comment
- Willis accepts Edmonds' apology over 'duck-faced horse' comment
- Labour's Edmonds apologises for calling Willis a 'duck-faced horse'
- Winston Peters wins again – no cuts for MFAT in new Budget
Otago Daily Times 7
- Opposition: Govt making Kiwis' lives harder
- Willis' Budget: 'The numbers are good and the numbers add up'
- 'The right Budget for the times,' Willis says
- MP apologises for 'duck faced horse' comment
- Labour apology for 'duck faced horse' comment
- No Budget cuts again for MFAT
- Public sector cuts: Anxious times in capital, parties respond
The Spinoff 7
- 16 characterisations rejected by Nicola Willis
- Echo Chamber: Christopher Luxon and the disappearing documents
- Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or a horse-sized duck? We asked the experts
- Echo Chamber: The week’s biggest losers were probably adult human biological public servants
- Labours blank canvas election strategy is working for now
- Labour’s blank canvas election strategy is working – for now
- Taine randell and three other rabbits pulled from hats for the 2026 election
NZ Herald 5
- Budget 2026: Labour not saying what it would keep or cut from Nicola Willis’ Budget
- Election 2026: Labour’s Chris Hipkins says Barbara Edmonds right to apologise for calling Nicola Willis ‘duck-faced horse’
- Budget 2026: Winston Peters secures MFAT slight reprieve from cuts, Labour hints this could imperil $2.4b savings goal
- Labour admits it will not release ‘cornerstone’ policy costing and job modelling until after the election, blames Treaty of Waitangi concerns
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