Chlöe Swarbrick

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Chlöe Swarbrick (2017)

Chlöe Swarbrick (born 1994 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand politician . For the left environmental party Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand she is a member of the New Zealand parliament .

Life

As a child of divorced parents, Swarwick lived in Great Britain with her mother for six months and in Papua New Guinea with her father for a year and a half . After returning to New Zealand, she attended Epsom Girls 'Grammar School, a girls' school in Auckland. She studied law and liberal arts at the University of Auckland ; she completed her studies with bachelor's degrees in law and philosophy before the standard period of study. On the very first day of her studies, she met Alex Bartley Catt, with whom she founded her first company, the fashion label The Lucid Collective , in 2012 . Parallel to her studies and her entrepreneurial activity, she worked as a volunteer journalist for a student radio station, for which she interviewed the top candidates for the mayoral election of Auckland in autumn 2016. She spontaneously decided - 22 years old - to run herself as a candidate, received more than 26,000 votes and came in third place. After the election she showed herself proud, but declared that she had hoped for a better result and initially left her political future open with the reference to working full-time.

In November 2016, she joined the Greens, which the then deputy party leader Metiria Turei expressly welcomed.

For the 2017 parliamentary elections in New Zealand , she applied for her party's nomination for a direct mandate against MP Denise Roche in the Auckland Central constituency, but was defeated. At number 7 on the Greens list, she was elected to the House of Representatives at the age of 23 . She became the youngest MP in 42 years when Marilyn Waring was elected in 1975.

Since 2018, Swarbrick and Labor MP Kiritapu Allan have been publishing a weekly podcast with which they convey political content in an entertaining way and encourage viewers to stand up for political issues themselves.

She became known beyond New Zealand in November 2019 when she countered a senior MP, Todd Muller , who made a remark about her age during her speech in Parliament to pass an environmental bill with the phrase “ OK, Boomer ”.

Web links

Commons : Chlöe Swarbrick  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 12 Questions: Chloe Swarbrick , nzherald.co.nz, June 6, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2017 (interview; English)
  2. ↑ Chloe Swarbrick 'hoped for better' , newshub.co.nz, October 8, 2016, accessed November 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Chloe Swarbrick, Auckland mayoral candidate, joins the Greens , newshub.co.nz, November 11, 2016, accessed November 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ Swarbrick misses out on Auckland Central nomination for Green Party , nzherald.co.nz, February 14, 2017, accessed November 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ Chloe Swarbrick set to become New Zealand's youngest MP in 42 years , i.stuff.co.nz, September 24, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ Audrey Malone: KFC, babies, and tax - the new political podcast 'Authorized By' . i.stuff.co.nz, July 1, 2018, accessed November 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe , i.stuff.co.nz, November 9, 2019, accessed on November 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ New Zealand politician, 25, fires 'OK, Boomer' to shut down heckling from older MP , cnbc.com, November 7, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Swarbrick, Chlöe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand politician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland