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"Enormous innovator": MP pays tribute to the humour and fearlessness of Sir Tim Shadbolt

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Publish Date
Fri, 9 Jan 2026, 9:32am
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"Enormous innovator": MP pays tribute to the humour and fearlessness of Sir Tim Shadbolt

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 9 Jan 2026, 9:32am

Sir Tim Shadbolt went to great lengths to help others. 

He was a great New Zealand character and one of our longest-serving mayors, with terms in Waitakere and Invercargill. 

He died yesterday, aged 78.  

He's being remembered as making people proud to be from Invercargill. 

MP Penny Simmonds told Andrew Dickens he was a compassionate man, and recalls when a Chinese student died in a car accident. 

She says he jumped straight on a plane to Dunedin to meet her to support the overseas family and was always there for others. 

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