1. Elizabeth Dorothy Craig was born on 1967 and is a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
15 Facts About Liz Craig
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Liz Craig served as a Member of Parliament from 2017 to 2023.
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Liz Craig left New Plymouth at the age of 18 to attend medical school in Auckland.
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Liz Craig was married to David Craig for 27 years, with whom she has two children.
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Liz Craig is a public health doctor and child poverty advocate.
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Liz Craig was the director of the New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service of the University of Otago.
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Liz Craig was part of a group that compiled an annual child poverty monitor, and the group has been credited with making the issue one of the core topics of the 2017 election.
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Liz Craig resigned as director from the research group, and as editor of the child poverty monitor, prior to the 2014 election.
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Liz Craig stressed that her political views were formed through her work on child poverty, and "not the other way around".
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Liz Craig joined the Labour Party in 2010 and was a contributing author of Labour's children's policies for the 2011 and 2014 elections.
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Liz Craig stood for Labour in the Clutha-Southland electorate in the 2014 election, placing second.
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Liz Craig lost the electorate to incumbent Sarah Dowie, but entered parliament via the Party list.
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Liz Craig had trailed by 685 votes in the preliminary results, causing speculation that she could win the seat when the special votes were counted.
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Liz Craig was chair of the health select committee from 2020 to 2022 when she was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary for Health.
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Liz Craig came second place to National candidate Penny Simmonds, who won by a margin of 10,945 votes.