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HELEN ELIZABETH CLARK was born in Hamilton in 1950.
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She attended Epsom Girls Grammar School in Auckland and then studied at Auckland University, and graduated with MA (Hons) in 1974.

Her MA and PhD thesis research was on rural political behaviour and representation.

She was a junior lecturer in political studies in Auckland from 1973-75, studied abroad on a University Grants Committee post-graduate scholarship in 1976, and then lectured in political studies at Auckland from 1977 until her election to Parliament in 1981.

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