In the 2023 election, she stood for the House of Representatives in Rongotai, but the seat was won by Julie Anne Genter of the Green Party.

[2] From 2003 to 2005 she was co-president of the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations, serving alongside future Labour Party general secretary Andrew Kirton.

[3] When Paul Eagle resigned his seat on the Wellington City Council after his election to Parliament a by-election was held in his ward.

[5] During her second term on the council she was seen as the de-facto leader of the centre-left group of councillors during the contentious triennium led by the then-mayor Andy Foster.

In January 2024, she criticised the National-led coalition government's planned public sector cuts as "very short-sighted" and claimed many agencies were already running "on the smell of an oily rag" due to austerity measures imposed by the previous Labour administration.