Christine Rose (politician)
Christine Rose is a New Zealand environmental advocate, a former Councillor and Deputy Chair of the Auckland Regional Council. She is  a cheerleader for public transport, safe cycling, and marine conservation. She is an artist and writer.

Political career

Auckland
Rose was Deputy Mayor of the Rodney District Council and then represented the Rodney constituency in the Auckland Regional Council. She chaired the Regional Council's transport and urban development committee, the top transport decision making body of the council.

She continues to work for a more sustainable transport system, favouring improved, publicly owned  bus services, extended train services, and the construction of a walk and cycleway over the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

She has also spoken out against the separation of traffic management and service provision between the Auckland Council and Auckland Transport, believing a transport unit integrated into the normal Council structure would be preferable. She argues the "corporate" model does not deliver on the needs of Aucklanders - and that even after her experience of the problematic relationship between the Auckland Regional Council collecting the rates, and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority having responsibility for operational matters, similar issues around accountability for services continue to occur in the case of the Auckland-wide body. 

She has however, supported a regional approach to local government, and ran for election for the Rodney seat in the first "Supercity"Auckland Council election. Rose lost this election to former Rodney mayor Penny Webster. Rose stood in the Rodney electorate for Labour at the 2011 General election. She stood as a candidate in the 2013 elections, for the post of one of Auckland Council's Waitākere Ward Council seats but failed to be elected despite an endorsement from retiring councillor Sandra Coney. 

Rose has published both academic and environmental writing in a range of publications including local newspapers and online platforms. She has led regional and national campaigns to protect the critically endangered Maui's and Hector's dolphins from human induced threats, particularly set-nets, and pollution. Rose also campaigns to protect whales and their habitat.  She often uses quirky public arts and activities to highlight environmental, social and transport issues. Since  2020 she has organised, through her Cetacean Spotting NZ Facebook group, the country's first nationwide Citizen Science Cetacean Census.

Rose currently works as lead Agriculture and Climate Campaigner for Greenpeace Aotearoa.

Rose is an award winning philosophy graduate with a BA in philosophy, and politics with First Class Honours, and has done five years PhD study in Local Government Politics.

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Politicians from Auckland
Living people
New Zealand Labour Party politicians
Unsuccessful candidates in the 2011 New Zealand general election
Auckland regional councillors
Year of birth missing (living people)
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