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Finance And Expenditure Committee
The Finance and Expenditure Committee (known as the Public Accounts Committee until 1962, and as the Public Expenditure Committee, from 1962) is a select committee of the House of Representatives, the unicameral chamber of the New Zealand Parliament The New Zealand Parliament () is the unicameral legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the Monarchy of New Zealand, Sovereign and the New Zealand House of Representatives. The King is usually represented by his Governor-General of New Zeal ..., responsible for matters relating to the audit of the financial statements of the Government and departments, Government finance, revenue, and taxation. The committee is currently established by Standing Order 189. History Following a reform of the former Public Accounts Committee in 1962, the Public Expenditure Committee was established and became the most influential parliamentary committee in New Zealand, establishing "a strong reputation for itself, principally because it enjoyed po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the whole assembly or organization were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of organization and its needs. A member of a legislature may be delegated a committee assignment, which gives them the right to serve on a certain committee. Purpose A deliberative assembly or other organization may form a committee (or "commission") consisting of one or more persons to assist with the work of the assembly. For larger organizations, much work is done in committees. They can be a way to formally draw together people of relevant expertise from different parts of an organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Hamilton (New Zealand Politician)
Ryan Alexander Hamilton (born ) is a New Zealand politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for representing the National Party since the 2023 general election. He was a Hamilton city councillor from 2018 until resigning following his election to Parliament. Political career Hamilton City Council Hamilton unsuccessfully ran for the Hamilton City Council in 2004, 2010, and 2016. He also unsuccessfully ran for election to the WEL Energy Trust and the Waikato District Health Board. He was finally elected to the council in a February 2018 by-election following the death of councillor Philip Yeung. He was elected to a full term in 2019 and in 2022 was the highest-polling councillor in the East Ward. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was the only councillor to vote against requiring My Vaccine Pass to enter council facilities. He formally resigned from his seat on the Council in October 2023 following his election to Parliament. Member of Parliament Hamilton expressed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawiri Waititi
Rawiri Wikuki Waititi (born 17 October ) is a New Zealand politician and iwi leader. He has been co-leader of Te Pāti Māori since 2020, alongside Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for since 2020, when his election returned Te Pāti Māori to the New Zealand Parliament following their defeat at the 2017 general election. Born and raised in the eastern Bay of Plenty, Waititi traces his lineage to many iwi but has firm links to Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou. An advocate of progressive political policies, Waititi is a fluent Māori speaker, and is also an iwi leader, Ringatū minister, and kapa haka exponent. He has been prominent and vocal in his opposition to the policies towards Māori of the Sixth National Government of New Zealand since the 2023 general election. Personal life Waititi was born in Ōpōtiki, the eldest of four children. His birthday is 17 October. He spent his first 12 years living in Whangaparāoa, in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Central (New Zealand Electorate)
Auckland Central is a New Zealand electoral division returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The electorate is currently represented by Chlöe Swarbrick, a member of the Green Party; she has represented the seat since 2020. Population centres In the 1887 electoral redistribution, although the Representation Commission was required through the Representation Act 1887 to maintain existing electorates "as far as possible", rapid population growth in the North Island required the transfer of three seats from the South Island to the north. Ten new electorates were created, including Auckland Central, and one former electorate was recreated. Auckland Central contains Auckland city centre, the suburbs of Ponsonby, Westmere, Arch Hill, Herne Bay, Freemans Bay, St Mary's Bay, Newton and Eden Terrace at the west side of the city. Because of the location of the main Auckland ferry terminal, Auckland Central also contains the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chlöe Swarbrick
Chlöe Charlotte Swarbrick (born 26 June 1994) is a New Zealand politician. Following a high-profile but unsuccessful run for the 2016 Auckland mayoral election, she became a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, standing in the 2017 New Zealand general election, and was elected as a member of the New Zealand Parliament at the age of 23. In the 2020 New Zealand general election, 2020 election, Swarbrick was Auckland Central in the 2020 New Zealand general election, elected as the Member of Parliament for Auckland Central (New Zealand electorate), Auckland Central, becoming the second Green Party MP ever to win an New Zealand electorates, electorate seat, and the first without a tacit endorsement from a major party leader. She retained Auckland Central in the 2023 New Zealand general election, 2023 election. In March 2024, she was 2024 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leadership election, elected Co-leaders of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigram (New Zealand Electorate)
Wigram is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Wigram is Megan Woods of the Labour Party. She took over this position from Jim Anderton, who had held this position from 1996 until 2011. Population centres Through an amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, an increase of one since the 1962 electoral redistribution. It was accepted that through the more rapid population growth in the North Island, the number of its electorates would continue to increase, and to keep proportionality, three new electorates were allowed for in the 1967 electoral redistribution for the next election. In the North Island, five electorates were newly created and one electorate was reconstituted while three electorates were abolished. In the South Island, three electorates were newly created (including Wigram) and one electorate was reconsti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Woods
Megan Cherie Woods (born 4 November 1973) is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who served as a Cabinet Minister in the Sixth Labour Government and has served as Member of Parliament for Wigram since 2011. Early life Woods was born and grew up in Wigram, Christchurch. She attended high school at Catholic Cathedral College. She obtained a master's degree from the University of Canterbury with her thesis being titled ''Re/producing the nation : women making identity in New Zealand, 1906–1925''. She went on to obtain a PhD in history again at the University of Canterbury with a thesis titled ''Integrating the nation: Gendering Maori urbanisation and integration, 1942–1969''. Professional life Woods was a business manager for Crop & Food Research (2005–08) and its successor organisation Plant and Food Research (2008), based at Lincoln. Political career Woods was a member of the Alliance Party from 1999 until 2002, when she joined the breakaway Progressive Party. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Russell
Deborah Faye Russell (born 14 January 1966) is a New Zealand academic and politician. She is a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party and served as Minister of Statistics and Minister Responsible for the Earthquake Commission from February to November 2023. Early life and family Russell was born in Whangamōmona, a small town in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, to parents David and Marie Russell. She was raised Catholic and attended Sacred Heart Girls' College in New Plymouth. She is married to academic Malcolm Wright; the couple share three daughters. Academic career Russell graduated with a BCom (Hon) in Accounting and Finance from University of Otago in 1987. This was followed by a BA (Hon) in Philosophy in 1996 from Massey University. In 2001 she received her PhD in philosophy from Australian National University. Russell worked in the private sector as an accountant, and in the public sector as a policy analyst. She has lectured at universities in both Australia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mana (New Zealand Electorate)
Mana is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the Wellington metropolitan area. It has been held by Barbara Edmonds of the Labour Party since the . Population centres The electorate includes the following population centres: * Paraparaumu (south of the airport, and east of the railway) * Raumati Beach * Raumati South * Paekākāriki * Pukerua Bay * Karehana Bay * Plimmerton * Mana * Camborne * Paremata * Whitby * Pāuatahanui * Porirua * Linden In the 2007 boundary redistribution, parts of Paraparaumu located east of State Highway 1 were added to the electorate's area. The 2013/14 redistribution did not change the boundaries further. History The electorate was created for the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation in 1996 from the Porirua electorate, and from the southern part of the Kapiti electorate, consisting of Paraparaumu south of the airport, Raumati South and Raumati Beach. The 1996 election was won by Labour's Graham Kelly, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Edmonds
Barbara Rachael Fati Palepa Edmonds, (born 1981) is a New Zealand politician. She was elected as the Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Mana, representing the Labour Party, in 2020. She served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister for Pacific Peoples, Minister of Revenue and Minister for Economic Development in the final year of the Sixth Labour Government. Early life and career Edmonds was born Rachael Fati Poe, in North Shore, Auckland, to parents Selani (Fale’ula, Faleatiu) and Palepa ( Safotu, Fasito’o) who had immigrated from Western Samoa in 1978. Her mother died from cancer when she was four years old and Edmonds inherited her name Palepa (Barbara) on her fifth birthday. Her father, previously a naval administrator, left his job to care for his children. Edmonds' first language is Samoan and she did not speak English fluently until she began primary school. Edmonds was educated at Carmel College, where she was head girl in 1998. Her school was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Arbuckle
Jamie Arthur Arbuckle (born ) is a New Zealand politician. He is currently a Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives for the New Zealand First party. Arbuckle was a Marlborough district councillor following the 2010 local elections. In the 2023 New Zealand general election, he was also elected to Parliament, and held both roles for a year. In October 2024 he resigned from his position as a district councillor. Early life and family Born in , Arbuckle grew up in Rapaura on an apple and cherry orchard. He did not know his father. Despite "not eingacademic" at school, Arbuckle went on to earn a diploma in management from Nelson Polytechnic (now the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology). In 2009 Arbuckle applied to the Marlborough Farmers' Market to set up a stall selling asparagus, but questions were raised about whether he grew it himself, and his application was subsequently turned down. Arbuckle then led a group of stallholders to set up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Stephenson
Todd Michael Stephenson is a New Zealand lawyer and politician, representing ACT New Zealand as a Member of Parliament since the 2023 New Zealand general election. He has worked mainly in the pharmaceutical industry. Early life Stephenson was born in Lumsden and educated in Invercargill, attending James Hargest College and later gaining a law degree from the University of Otago. He worked in the pharmaceutical industry for the 17 years, including for the company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which makes cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta. Political career Stephenson has been a member of ACT for nearly 30 years, since its formation, and formerly worked for ACT's former president Catherine Isaac. He was attracted to the party by its focus on "private enterprise and individual freedom". He campaigned for the party four times between 1996 and 2005, and was employed by the party from 1997 to 2000. He has been elected to the ACT party board twice. Stephenson contested in the . He was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
