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Hon Barbara Edmonds
Mana
· New Zealand Labour Party
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Mana
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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 or disputed.
01 Positions
03 Pecuniary interests (2025) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:18Debts owed by you
ANZ Bank – mortgage
— ANZ Bank
Gifts
All Blacks rugby tickets (x2) and hospitality – AIA Insurance
— AIA Insurance
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 – ANZ
— ANZ
Tennis tickets (x2) and hospitality – Tennis Auckland
— Tennis Auckland
Overseas travel costs
England – meetings with global reinsurers. Contributor to travel: Insurance Council of New Zealand.
— Insurance Council of New Zealand
Real property
Family home (jointly owned) – Porirua
Family home (jointly owned) – Ōtāhuhu, Auckland
Retirement schemes
Milford KiwiSaver (active growth fund)
— Milford KiwiSaver
04 Directorships Methodology →
None recorded.
08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →
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09 Recent Hansard speeches
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12 In the news Methodology →
50 articlesCoverage from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff that mentions this person. Click any source to expand. Article body markdown is captured separately and used for AI summarisation downstream.
RNZ 14
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2026-05-28Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the minister faces questions over her Budget.
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2026-05-28Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the minister faces questions over her Budget.
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2026-05-28Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the government has failed to show it understands how tough it is out there for New Zealanders.
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2026-05-26Meanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Carmel Sepuloni says New Zealanders want to see some relief.
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2026-05-25Chris Hipkins says members of his party got carried away with the "silly question" and went too far.
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2026-05-24Barbara Edmonds says she got it wrong, and feels "absolutely terrible about it".
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2026-05-20Nicola Willis said that the foreign affairs ministry made Budget bid for more money for business-class flights.
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2026-05-20Nicola Willis said that the foreign affairs ministry made Budget bid for more money for business-class flights.
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2026-05-19The party announced the policy in October, but the number of jobs it is expected to create, and which assets it will invest in, have not been revealed.
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2026-05-19The government has been accused of "taking a blowtorch to the public service" by the Greens, but ACT has welcomed the latest moves.
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2026-05-18If BNZ doesn't sell, it will "face the prospect of nationalisation", Winston Peters says as he vows to bring back the National Bank of New Zealand.
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2026-05-17If BNZ doesn't sell, it will "face the prospect of nationalisation", Winston Peters says as he vows to bring back the National Bank of New Zealand.
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2026-05-16MPs' farewell speeches can serve many purposes: a philippic or jeremiad, an autohagiography, a call to arms, the comedy roast; and maybe this week - the job interview.
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2026-05-06StatsNZ figures showed the number of 15-24 year-olds out of work rose from 13.3 percent, 14.4 percent.
Stuff 9
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2026-06-02Company failures jumped 49% even as hospitality led demand for business finance.
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2026-05-26Social development minister Louise Upston has defended claiming $52,000 a year for an apartment she owns in Wellington, but won’t explain what costs it is covering.
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2026-05-25“I didn’t need to speak to her about it,” Hipkins said at Parliament on Monday. “I think she made a mistake.”
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2026-05-24A bizarre audio recording from an internal Labour training session has been leaked and reveals senior Labour MPs referring to National MPs as duck-sized horses. Yes, duck-sized horses.
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2026-05-19Capital gains tax is shaping up to be one of the major economic battlegrounds of New Zealand’s election campaign.
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2026-05-13The Finance Minister said she has no plans to sell off Kiwibank this term, but National will have a policy on it at the election.
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2026-05-09Opinion: The self-styled Prime Minister of Auckland has been mulling a big political problem, and earlier this year he settled on a solution.
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2026-05-07The report also raised concerns about superannuation and proposed a capital gains tax.
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2026-04-22Labour leader Chris Hipkins says he has apologised to Finance Minister Nicola Willis after he suggested she needed “medical help” during a back-and-forth in Parliament.
1News 8
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2026-05-29Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the Finance Minister faces questions over her Budget.
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2026-05-28Finance Minister Nicola Willis revealed her third Budget at Parliament today. Here’s how the Opposition parties responded.
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2026-05-26US military carries out 'self-defence' strikes in Iran; kiwifruit company owner fined after making worker pay $23k to secure job; and the average KiwiSaver balance revealed.
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2026-05-25The morning's headlines in 90 seconds, including doped athletes flop at controversial games, and the UK breaks heat records.
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2026-05-25Labour MP Barabara Edmonds has since apologised for her comment about Finance Minister Nicola Willis, saying she "felt terrible about it".
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2026-05-25In a tongue-in-cheek response, the Finance Minister said the jab was "water off a duck's back".
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2026-05-24The comment was made during a question and answer session at a Labour Party candidate list conference at the weekend, of which audio was leaked to the media.
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2026-05-20The Foreign Affairs Ministry has again been exempt from cuts, with Finance Minister Nicola Willis confirming it wouldn't be made to find savings until after the election.
Otago Daily Times 7
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2026-05-28Russell Palmer of RNZ The Opposition says this year's Budget leaves New Zealanders to fend for themselves, with more spending for prisons and more children in poverty.
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2026-05-26Finance Minister Nicola Willis shows off Budget 2026 ahead of its delivery on Thursday. Photo: RNZ Thursday's Budget is "the right Budget for the times", and will respond to an increasingly uncertain world, the finance minister says.
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2026-05-26Finance Minister Nicola Willis shows off Budget 2026 ahead of its delivery on Thursday. Photo: RNZ Thursday's Budget is "the right Budget for the times", and will respond to an increasingly uncertain world, the finance minister says.
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2026-05-24Labour's finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photos: RNZ Lillian Hanly of RNZ Labour's finance spokesperson has apologised to the Finance Minister after audio of her calling Nicola Willis a "duck-faced…
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2026-05-24Labour's finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photos: RNZ Lillian Hanly of RNZ Labour's finance spokesperson has apologised to the Finance Minister after audio of her calling Nicola Willis a "duck-faced…
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2026-05-20Nicola Willis revealed in Parliament that Winston Peters' ministry isn't required to cut its spending. Photo: RNZ Jo Moir of RNZ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has again been exempt from funding cuts in this year's Budget, with the…
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2026-05-19Wellington Mayor Andrew Little. Photo: RNZ The government's announcement of job cuts in the public sector is "naturally" going to cause anxiety for people in Wellington, its mayor says.
The Spinoff 7
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2026-06-02A characterisation made without rejection? Not on Nicola Willis’s watch. If you’ve been watching Nicola Willis over the past week, you might have noticed the finance minister is fond of responding to a question or statement thus: “I reject…
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2026-05-27We’ve all misplaced something at work. But if your office is a ministerial one, you might expect a bit more urgency in finding out where it went. You’d think the people preaching the loudest about getting their books in order would at…
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2026-05-25The internet’s favourite debate is back in the news once again thanks to Labour, so Alex Casey tries to end it once and for all. Over the weekend, the Herald revealed that senior Labour MPs were asked whether they’d rather fight 100…
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2026-05-22Contentious bills ruled the week in parliament. It’s overwhelming how much has happened this week in parliament and around it. For the last two months, the House has either sat in extended sittings or under urgency as the government tries…
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2026-04-29They say they’ll release more policy once the budget is out. But is Labour’s lack of ideas already becoming a problem, asks Catherine McGregor in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up…
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NZ Herald 5
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2026-05-28Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the party will unveil its fiscal plan soon but will analyse today's Budget first. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-05-25The Labour leader said Barbara Edmonds was right to apologise. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-05-20Nicola Willis (left) says Winston Peters' MFAT will not be asked to make baseline spending cuts this year. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-05-19Labour leader Chris Hipkins and finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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