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Our First Vietnamese Mp Green Goddess Lan

Lan Pham has just one regret about the whirlwind final few months of 2023, when she started her new life as a Green Party MP and somehow also coordinated her young family’s move from Christchurch to Wellington – amid all the chaos, she never made it to the cinema to see Taylor Swift : The Eras Tour.

“I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it justice during election crazy-times,” she says sadly.

A devoted Swiftie – “always and forever”, she affirms – Lan parodied Taylor’s in a 2017 video drawing attention to freshwater pollution in Canterbury, where she was a regional

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