Anna Knight
for Dunedin City Council and Waikouaiti Community Board
Kia ora koutou! I’m a Blueskin Bay resident, an environmental and social justice activist, translator, keen forager and Halo Project volunteer. I graduated from Otago University in 2000 with an honours degree in French and English. I chose to return to this beloved whenua after twenty years in France, where I sat on boards to defend my profession. My decision to run for DCC grew out of my mahi supporting local Palestinians over the past two years. I’d bring rigour, diplomacy and clear communication to the table. Focus areas are tāngata whenua, social equity and environmental issues, public housing and transport: people-first politics with spine.
Cyndee Elder
for Dunedin City Council
Kia ora, greetings! Ōāmaru-born-and-bred, I’m a hard-working Mum who’s raised two children here. For almost 20 years, we’ve called Dunedin home, and I’m fully committed to this city where I’ve started a community-led business. “Able Abodes” is about community-led solutions for affordable housing that is both inclusive and accessible. Over the past eight years, I’ve drawn on my lived experience to teach myself many skills and to navigate through the systems that do not always serve us well. This has given me the strength/kaha needed to focus on how we can repair Dunedin’s civic-and-social fabric – connection, wellbeing and restoring equitable balance for generations to come.
Marie Laufiso
for Mayor and Dunedin City Council
Ki e mana whenua o tēnei rohe, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou katoa. I greet the mana whenua nations in whose ancestral territory we are each so lucky to live. A third-term Councillor who has, this term, held four chairing posts I’ve learned that if enough of us respond to our neighbours in deep crisis, humanity can shine and rise to the challenges. We must all shine now. As Aotearoa New Zealand’s first female Pāsifika Mayor, I’ll lead with the key principle of Aroha ki te tāngata; Love for the people, so that we pull together as a city that, grounded in equity, will firstly end all forms of homelessness, eradicate food banks and invest fully and equitably in all our babies, children and young people.