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Revision as of 08:38, 9 December 2002 by 203.109.254.58 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Helen Clark served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from December 1999.
Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, she formed successive minority coalition governments with the Alliance Party (1999, with parliamentary support ftom the Green Party) and with Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition Party (2002, with parliamentary support from the Green Party and the United Future Party).
Clark served in the Labour cabinets of David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer and Mike Moore, notably as Minister of Health and later as deputy Prime Minister. She functioned as Leader of the Opposition during the National Party administrations of Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley during the 1990s. Seen as an Aucklander, an academic (former lecturer in industrial relations) and a feminist, she earned the distinction of becoming the first popularly-elected New Zealand female Prime Minister.