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Jenny Shipley
Jenny Shipley is a New Zealand politician who became the country's first woman Prime Minister in December 1997, after replacing Jim Bolger as leader of the National Party. Earlier, as social welfare minister in 1990–1991, she cut benefits as part of the National government's spending reductions. Her coalition with New Zealand First collapsed in 1998, and she lost the 1999 election to Helen Clark.
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