Background
Corkery (née Mc Nutt)was born in the South Island and grew up in Dunedin.
Corkery (née Mc Nutt)was born in the South Island and grew up in Dunedin.
She has been married three times, and has two children. In 1999, she decided to leave politics after one term. Her book Pam"s Political Confessions was published in 1999.
On page 9 she writes: "Politicians are, by and large, far more self-deluding, devious, bloated, insecure, egocentric wankers than I had feared."
She returned to her previous work as a journalist, and talk-back host at Radio Pacific.
Corkery presented the live interview show The Last Word on television One from March 2003 until the show was cancelled in September 2003. She appeared in a 2008 episode of the television travelogue Intrepid Journeys, being shot at point-blank range with a 9 mm pistol while wearing a ballistic vest in Colombia.
She has fronted two documentaries for the TV3 show Inside New Zealand, looking at the nation"s gangs. Foreign The Gangs, which aired in 2008, she spent 18 months with the gangs, including filming an operating methamphetamine laboratory
The second documentary The Truth about Asian Crime aired in 2009.
Police cancelled interviews planned for the programme, saying they believed Corkery had a conflict of interest. Her application for a resource consent was withdrawn in April 2011. In May 2014, Corkery was hired as the press secretary to Laila Harré, the leader of the newly established During the New Zealand general election, 2014 campaign, Corkery labelled a journalist a "puffed-up little shit" at the campaign launch for the (New Zealand) on 25 August 2014.
Following the 2014 Elections despite there being no formal announcement of her resignation from the role as Press Secretary, Corkery has not engaged with the publicly and has returned to occasional Editorial pieces with the Herald and other media services.
A well known journalist in New Zealand, she first entered politics standing as an independent candidate for the Auckland mayoralty in 1995. She then became a high profile candidate for the Alliance party and was elected to Parliament as a list Member of Parliament in the 1996 elections.