Pamela Corkery (born 1956) is a New Zealand journalist, broadcaster, and former politician who served one term (1996–1999) as a member of Parliament for the left-wing Alliance party.
[5] In her 1999 book Pam's Political Confessions, she wrote, "Politicians are, by and large, far more self-deluding, devious, bloated, insecure, egocentric wankers than I had feared."
[3] She appeared in a 2008 episode of the TV travelogue Intrepid Journeys, being shot at point-blank range with a 9 mm pistol, while wearing a ballistic vest in Colombia.
[9] The second documentary The Truth about Asian Crime aired in 2009; police cancelled interviews planned for the programme, saying they believed Corkery had a conflict of interest.
[14] Following the 2014 election, despite no formal announcement of her resignation from the role as press secretary, Corkery has not engaged with the Internet Party publicly, and returned to occasional editorial pieces with the New Zealand Herald and other media services.