the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which decriminalised abortion. In June 2021, Collins defended the advocacy group Speak Up For Women, a group opposed to gender self-identification which had been prevented from hosting a meeting at a Christchurch City Library venue on the grounds of alleged transphobia. In August 2021, Collins called for a referendum on the growing use of Aotearoa, the Māori name for New Zealand, in official documents and statements. This was in spite of the fact that Collins had used the name Aotearoa several times during her time as a minister in the previous Fifth National Government. Public image Collins is a in New Zealand politics; while she has been praised for bringing her formidably irreverent and larger than life image to the core of the National Party, she has been just as much critiqued for it as well. She has been nicknamed "Crusher Collins", which stems from her policy as Minister of Police to crush the cars of speeding drivers. She has also been subject to ridicule after using her Samoan husband's ethnicity to "shield herself" from accusations of racism and a lack of diversity in her shadow cabinet. She has won a mixture of light-hearted admiration and disapproval for her "tough image" and tongue-in-cheek hubris, to the extent that she was indirectly referred to by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a "Karen" in 2021. Bibliography Non-fiction Pull No Punches (2020) References External links Profile at National party |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1959 births Living people Government ministers of New Zealand Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand women lawyers New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates New Zealand National Party MPs New Zealand National Party leaders Women members of the New Zealand House of Representatives People from Hamilton, New Zealand University of Auckland alumni 21st-century New Zealand politicians 21st-century New Zealand women politicians Leaders of the Opposition (New Zealand) Women government ministers of New Zealand Candidates in the 2017 New Zealand general election Female justice ministers New Zealand Anglicans 20th-century New Zealand lawyers Justice ministers of New Zealand