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Jenny Shipley
‘This ain’t a damn beauty contest. If you come into politics to be popular, then you’ve picked the wrong sport’, Jenny Shipley declared. New Zealand’s first woman PM came to power in 1997 after staging a carefully planned coup against Jim Bolger.
Jenny Shipley
Standing portrait of Jennifer (Jenny) Shipley, 27 March 1993.
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