Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n Former Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau is now campaign manager for a Green candidate in Victoria, Australia. Photo \/ Local Democracy Reporting<\/p>\n
By Justin Wong, Local Democracy Reporting<\/p>\n
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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
\n Whanau, who was the New Zealand Greens\u2019 parliamentary chief of staff for six years before
\n 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.\n <\/p>\n
She has also become the campaign manager for Izzy Scherrer, the Greens\u2019 candidate in the electorate of South Barwon, which covers Geelong\u2019s southern suburbs, in the state elections in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 29 May, 2026 07:16 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,1863,1738,13600,2740,78,17468,440,10934,111,139,69,90,5352,213,223,35833,4129,52,35834,93585],"class_list":["post-450974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-back","tag-campaign","tag-democracy","tag-former","tag-in","tag-justin","tag-local","tag-mayor","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-reporting","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-tory","tag-trail","tag-wellington","tag-whanau","tag-wong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450974","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=450974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}