Belinda FeekOpen Justice multimedia journalist, Waikato·NZ Herald·5 Jun, 2026 05:00 PM8 mins to readGreen Party MP Efeso Collins pictured delivering his maiden speech in the House of Representatives on February 15, 2024, less than a week before he died at the ChildFund Water Run in central Auckland.Efeso Collins was doing what he had always done – showing up for his community – when his life was suddenly cut short.
What the Green MP didn’t know was that he was experiencing “silent” coronary artery disease and the cardiac arrest that caused his death on February 21,










