Her colourful career: Political junkie Pippa MacKay takes stock

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Her colourful career: Political junkie Pippa MacKay takes stock

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Friday 7 June 2024, 10:00 AM

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A pro-choice, pro-science, pro-vaccine, proud mother and oenophile – that’s wine lover – is how freshly retired specialist GP Pippa MacKay sums herself up in her ‘X’ bio. During their chat on Dr MacKay’s last day of practising medicine, Fiona Cassie finds out the former New Zealand Medical Association chair forgot to add ‘political junkie’

Pippa MacKay meekly doing cross-stitch in her retirement seems a little incongruous until the livewire GP reveals she stitches while listening to poli

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