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SELWYN TIMES Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Wednesday December 4 2019 9 Our People Nicola Grigg Politics and farming a true blue mix Nicola Grigg will be National’s candidate in next year’s election, replacing the retiring Amy Adams. She talks to Louis Day What was your reaction to being selected as the National candidate for Selwyn? I was just thrilled, I really was, I had so much support from members around the electorate and this is just something I have wanted to do for a long long long time. I was probably a little bit shocked as well as there were two high calibre candidates there as well. It was definitely a mixture of elation and shock. What is your connection to the Selwyn electorate? I was born and raised on a family farm in Mt Somers. That was a bit of a technicality, at the time it was in the Selwyn electorate but then there was a boundary change in 2007 so it got pulled into the Rangitata electorate. But when you grow up on a farm in Mid Canterbury all your family friends and all your family is all deeply connected. Boundaries are boundaries, but if I look at all the big rural seats from South Canterbury to North Canterbury you have got Waitaki Rangitata, Selwyn, Waimak they are all really interwoven and my connection is just growing up in the region really and being involved in the farming community. Tell me about your family’s history in politics. Politics has always been of interest for me because of my family connections. My great grandfather Major Arthur Grigg was the MP for Ashburton in the early 1940s and he was killed in the second World War. Then his wife Mary Grigg stood to replace him and stood uncontested and she ended up being National’s first female MP. She was very pro-women and very pro-agriculture. I read some of her speeches now and it is literally like history repeating itself. How did you become a journalist and what prompted the transition into politics? I went to broadcasting school straight after finishing high school at St Margaret’s College. I think the career advisor at the time steered me in the direction of journalism because I talked a lot. So yeah, I became a journalist, did a bit of travel, came back, lived in Queenstown, got made redundant a couple of times during the global financial crisis and then I moved home at the end of 2010 to Canterbury. That is when the quake started and when the newsrooms were hiring, so I went to Newstalk ZB. At the time, because it was a post-quake environment all the Government ministers like Key, English, Brownlee and Amy Adams were coming here regularly and I was interfacing with them a PASSING THE TORCH: Nicola Grigg (left), with retiring Selwyn MP Amy Adams lot as a reporter. I got offered a job after the 2014 elections in Simon Bridges’ office after he was made the Minister of Transport and Minister of Energy Resources. I really wasn’t sure because I loved being a reporter. I went over to Greymouth and it was the day Key and Bridges announced they weren’t going to re-enter the Pike River Mine. When Key came down and announced that they weren’t going to go back in, it was just the way they handled it with such empathy and logic and I thought actually I do want to get involved with that team. So I went up to Wellington in 2014, worked with Simon for about four months and then I got an opportunity to go into Bill English’s office, I was there for two years with him as the Minister of Finance and the year he was Prime Minister. When Bill resigned I always had in the back that I wanted to be an MP, so in the middle of 2018 I thought it was time to come home and get in a position to find a seat and it was a stroke of luck that my home seat opened up. What did you aspire to be as a child, was it a politician? I wanted to be a vet! 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