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Following the Dawn Raids, Workman resigned as a senior sergeant in Lower Hutt police force over his opposition to the racism displayed in the police response. [2]He served as Families Commissioner between 2008 and 2011, having previously been the national director of Prison Fellowship New Zealand. [3]
The paper was established in 1927 by Walter Harold Smith, a retired farmer. Smith felt Lower Hutt should have its own paper as its population was approaching that of neighbouring Petone (which had managed to sustain a newspaper since 1887).
At the 2019 local-body elections, Barry was elected mayor of Lower Hutt, beating the incumbent Ray Wallace by 15,453 votes to 13,034. [5] At 28, he was the youngest person ever elected to the office of mayor of a city in New Zealand. [nb 1] [7]
At the next local body election in 2001, he was elected Mayor of Upper Hutt with a majority of around 6,000 votes [7] and has been mayor since. In the 2007 local election, he was returned unopposed. [8] Guppy and Chris Hipkins launched a petition in 2009 opposing the proposed merger of the Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt police districts. [9]
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Andersen lives in Belmont, Lower Hutt. [47] She enjoys practising yoga. [6] She is married to Geoff Gwyn, a former police inspector, whom she met while working for the Police prior to becoming an MP. [48] [49] They have two children together, but also parent her husband's two older children from a previous relationship. [6]
Lower Hutt City had a population of 107,562 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 3,030 people (2.9%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 9,324 people (9.5%) since the 2013 census. There were 53,082 males, 54,009 females and 468 people of other genders in 39,279 dwellings. [29] 3.8% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age ...