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Blair Cameron
Blair Cameron is a New Zealand researcher and political candidate. In the , Cameron stood as the National Party candidate in the electorate of . He was narrowly defeated to incumbent MP Rachel Boyack by 26 votes. Early life and career Cameron grew up in rural Canterbury outside Methven, New Zealand, Methven, where his mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a barman at the working men's club. Cameron was schooled in Highbank, New Zealand, Highbank, and at Mount Hutt College. At the age of sixteen, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Li Po Chun United World College. He gained a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University in the United States before working as a senior research specialist at Princeton University. Cameron has worked as a research officer for the International Monetary Fund’s legal department and as a consultant for the World Bank. His work for the World Bank involved researching how governments could be made less corrupt. He return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand National Party (), often shortened to National () or the Nats, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right List of political parties in New Zealand, political party in New Zealand that is the current senior ruling party. It is one of two major parties that dominate contemporary New Zealand politics, alongside its traditional rival, the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and Liberalism, liberal parties, Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform and United Party (New Zealand), United respectively, and subsequently became New Zealand's second-oldest extant political party. National's predecessors had previously formed United–Reform Coalition, a coalition against the growing labour movement. National has governed for six periods during the 20th and 21st centuries, and has spent more List of New Zealand governments, time in government than any other New Zealand party. After the 1949 New Zealand general electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
