Harvey is used to campaigning. Last year she wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asking her to fix the funding model for schools with children who have special needs.
Harvey's 8-year-old daughter Piper is autistic and is one of 24 special and high-needs students at Greerton Village School – which was facing a $118,482 funding shortfall last year.
Harvey has also been pushing for Tauranga Council to review the design of the $11.4 million Marine Precinct - which she says was poorly designed and is costing businesses money.
Harvey, her husband Dan and his father Russell own Longline Fishing Company, a business which provides fish to Michelin-starred restaurants around the world.
"A lot of the work I've been doing is highlighting a lot of errors around design, around engagement and it really is the basic fundamentals of business," Harvey said.
"We have been having meetings with the council for three years where nobody was even listening to the feedback we were saying. Unfortunately, because they didn't listen, we are having accidents in the precinct, and there's a lot of angry people who are looking to sue the council for damages that have been caused from the wrong design of the precinct."
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