Former Wellington mayor Tory Whanau is back as a political party staffer \u2013 this time in Australia as the campaign manager for a Green candidate in Victoria\u2019s state election.<\/p>\n
By Justin Wong, Local Democracy Reporter <\/p>\n
Whanau, who was the New Zealand Greens\u2019 parliamentary chief of staff for six years before stepping out from behind the scenes and elected as Wellington\u2019s mayor in 2022, said on social media on Friday she had been elected to the state council of the Victorian Greens \u2013 the party\u2019s primary governing body.<\/p>\n
She has also become the campaign manager for Izzy Scherrer, the Greens\u2019 candidate in the electorate of South Barwon \u2013 which covers Geelong\u2019s southern suburbs \u2013 in the state elections in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels good to be back behind the scenes,\u201d Whanau said, adding she would also be supporting the Greens in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
She decided not to run for re-election as mayor in last year\u2019s election and lost to Labour\u2019s Matthew Reweti for the Te Whanganui-a-Tara M\u0101ori ward, later confirming she was moving across the Tasman to Melbourne.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Local Democracy Reporting (LDR) is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wellington mayor Tory Whanau is back as a political party staffer \u2013 this time in Australia as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,42,43,135,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-450530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}