Anne Fraser

Parliamentary career

In the early 1980s Fraser joined the Labour Party and became a branch secretary in the East Cape electorate. At the snap election she was selected as Labour's candidate for the seat. Her selection, according to the then Whakatane branch chair Margery Rennie, was because "...she's got plenty of guts and was prepared to take on an unpopular candidacy no one else was interested in." In 1989 she launched New Zealand's rape awareness week, spending a considerable amount of time researching and writing her speech for the launch event only for the media to completely ignore the event.

Personal life Following her first marriage to Bruce Fraser she was known as Anne Fraser. In 1989, her name officially reverted to her maiden name Anne Collins after she had divorced her husband.