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Kate Sutton
Seventy of the one hundred and twenty members of the New Zealand House of Representatives elected in New Zealand's 2008 general election will be from single member constituencies, an increase of one electorate seat from 2005. The initial composition of the 2005 Parliament gave the Labour and National parties each 31 constituencies, the Māori Party four and ACT, United Future and the Progressive Party one each. The election was held on Saturday, 8 November. Nominations for constituency candidates closed at noon on Wednesday, 14 October; this is the final list. Lines coloured pink denote an MP elected from a party list; lines coloured beige denote the winner of the constituency vote. General electorates Bay of Plenty Botany New seat Christchurch Central Incumbent Tim Barnett of the Labour Party retired at the 2008 election, having been the MP for Christchurch Central since 1996. Christchurch East Clutha-Southland Coromandel Dunedin North Dunedin South In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand House Of Representatives
The House of Representatives () is the Unicameral, sole chamber of the New Zealand Parliament. The House passes Law of New Zealand, laws, provides Ministers in the New Zealand Government, ministers to form the Cabinet of New Zealand, Cabinet, and supervises the work of government. It is also responsible for adopting the state's New Zealand Budget, budgets and approving the state's accounts. The House of Representatives is a Representative democracy, democratic body consisting of representatives known as members of parliament (MPs). There are normally 120 MPs, though there are currently 123 due to an Overhang seat, overhang. Elections in New Zealand, Elections take place usually every three years using a mixed-member proportional representation system, which combines First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post elected legislative seat, seats with closed party lists. 72 MPs are elected directly in single-member New Zealand electorates, electoral districts and further seats ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Christiansen
Anthony (Tony) Steven Christiansen (born 23 October 1958) is a motivational and inspirational speaker from New Zealand who lost his legs as a result of a train accident in his childhood. He has challenged himself in numerous sporting and business areas, is the author of several best-selling books and has appeared in a number of TV documentaries. In his presentations, Christiansen starts by climbing a 1.5-metre high scaffolding and exudes a strong presence. His theme is self belief; "Your attitude determines your altitude in life". He shares his life story and the secrets to his success and encourages his audience to set their own challenges, rather than accept the limitations imposed by their own attitudes and other people's perception. Early life Christiansen was born in Tauranga, New Zealand. His father Bernard worked in a timber yard and his mother Doreen was a homemaker who immigrated to New Zealand from England after the World War II. He is the youngest of 3 siblings which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Gilmore
Aaron Wayne Gilmore (born 26 August 1973) is a New Zealand former politician and member of the New Zealand National Party. He was a list MP from the 2008 election until the 2011 election and again from February to May 2013. Early years Gilmore was born in Christchurch to shopkeeper parents and attended Parkview Primary School, in the Christchurch suburb of Parklands. He attended Shirley Boys' High School, before attending the University of Canterbury where he gained a Master of Commerce degree in Economics in 1995. Gilmore began his career working as an analyst with the Ministry of Transport in Wellington in 1995. The following year he began working at the Department of Treasury at the Crown Companies Monitoring Advisory Unit as an advisor on state owned enterprise privatisation. In 1997 Gilmore worked on secondment to SOE Minister Tony Ryall, where he advised on the sale of state owned enterprises. Gilmore left the public service in 1999 to join Ernst and Young, where he wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lianne Dalziel
Lianne Audrey Dalziel (; born 7 June 1960) is a New Zealand politician and former Mayor of Christchurch. Prior to this position, she was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for 23 years, serving as Minister of Immigration, Commerce, Minister of Food Safety and Associate Minister of Justice in the Fifth Labour Government. She resigned from Cabinet on 20 February 2004 after apparently lying about a leak of documents to the media, but was reinstated as a Minister following Labour's return to office after the 2005 election. She resigned from Parliament effective 11 October 2013 to contest the Christchurch mayoral election. The incumbent, Bob Parker, decided not to stand again. She was widely regarded as the top favourite and won with a wide margin to become the 46th Mayor of Christchurch. Early life Dalziel was born in 1960, raised in Christchurch and attended Canterbury University. She graduated with a law degree and was admitted to the Bar in 1984. She served as the le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch East
Christchurch East, originally called Christchurch City East, is a current New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first created for the and was abolished for two periods, from 1875–1905 and again from 1946–1996. It was last created for the introduction of the MMP voting system for the . The current MP is Reuben Davidson, a member of the New Zealand Labour Party who was first elected in the 2023 New Zealand general election. Population centres The electorate is based on the eastern part of the City of Christchurch. When the electorate was first formed through the Representation Act 1870, the western boundary of the electorate was Colombo Street. Unlike today, the eastern boundary was away from the coast; rather, the electorate covered the coastal regions. The electorate is bounded in the east by the Pacific Ocean and in the north by the Waimakariri River. Since the 2008 election, the western and southern boundary followed Main North Road, Marshland Road, North Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Wagner
Nicola Joanne Wagner (born 23 July 1953) is a former New Zealand politician. After a career in teaching and business, she was a National Party member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2005 to 2020, when she retired. Wagner represented the Christchurch Central electorate from 2011 to 2017. Between 2014 and 2017, she was Minister of Customs, Minister for Disability Issues, Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration. Early life and career Born in Christchurch, one of three children to a teacher mother and engineer father, Wagner grew up in Cashmere. Her early education was at Burnside Primary School and St Margaret's College. She received a teaching degree from Christchurch College of Education, a BA from the University of Canterbury, and an MBA from Massey University. After working for a time as a teacher, she entered the business world, and established a successful fashion marketing company and later an internet marketing business. She was an inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Severin
Toni Gae Severin is a New Zealand politician. She was a Member of Parliament for ACT New Zealand from 2020 until 2023. Early life and career Severin grew up in Invercargill. After moving to Christchurch, she worked as a laboratory technician for Canterbury District Health Board for 14 years. At the age of 21, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. Later, she completed a diploma in marketing at Christchurch Polytechnic. Severin is a business owner with her husband, Richard. The Companies Register shows her as director and shareholder of Vess 2013, a residential rental company, and Jet-X Wellington, which steam-cleans building exteriors. Severin continued to be involved with these companies through her political career, as shown by a June 2023 report on MPs' financial interest disclosures. A third company, Unique Links NZ, a jewellery wholesaling company, was removed from the Companies Register in 2021 for failing to file an annual return. Political career Severin unsuccessfully conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendon Burns (politician)
Brendon Burns is a New Zealand former journalist and politician. He was elected as a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the Christchurch Central electorate from 2008 until 2011. Early life and journalism career Burns was born in England. His ancestors had migrated there from Ireland during the Great Famine. At age four, he was brought, with his five siblings, from Liverpool to New Zealand. He was raised Catholic. With his wife Philippa, he has two children. Burns trained as a journalist and worked in Britain and New Zealand. He was a reporter covering the Brighton hotel bombing for ITN in 1984. In New Zealand, Burns worked for 12 years in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, reporting for ''The Press''. From 1994 to 2002, he was editor of ''The Marlborough Express''. During that period he led various community initiatives and won the country's top journalism award: a term at Cambridge University. In 1999 he won the Qantas Award for best editorial writer. After the 2002 election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Barnett (politician)
Timothy Andrew Barnett (born 4 August 1958) is a New Zealand politician who was the member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for Christchurch Central from 1996 to 2008, representing the Labour Party. He is a British immigrant to New Zealand and New Zealand's second openly gay politician. Barnett moved to South Africa in 2009 to work in the field of HIV/AIDS. He returned to New Zealand in 2012 when he was appointed by the Labour Party as their general secretary. Early life Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, on 4 August 1958, he moved to New Zealand in 1991 with his former partner, Jonathan Kirkpatrick. Educated at the London School of Economics, graduating with a B.Sc. (Honours) in Economics (Government) in 1981. In the United Kingdom he had been the inaugural executive director of the Stonewall Lobby Group, which was the first professional lobby group set up in that country to work for equal rights for lesbian and gay people. Member of Parliament He was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch Central
Christchurch Central is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the South Island city of Christchurch. The electorate was established for the 1946 election and, until 2011 had always been won by the Labour Party. Since 2008, the incumbent was Brendon Burns but the election night results for the resulted in a tie; the special vote results combined with a judicial recount revealed a 47-vote majority for Nicky Wagner, the National list MP based in the electorate. Wagner significantly increased her winning margin in the after having declared the electorate "unwinnable" for National earlier in the year following a boundary review. At the Wagner lost the seat to Labour's Duncan Webb, who retained it at the . Population centres The 1941 New Zealand census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account. The North Island gained a further two electorates from the South Island du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dominion Post (Wellington)
''The Post'' (formerly ''The Dominion Post'', lit. 'Head of the North_Island#Naming_and_usage, Fish') is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand. It is owned by media business Stuff (company), Stuff Ltd, and formerly by the New Zealand branch of Australian media company Fairfax Media. Weekday issues are now in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, and its Saturday edition is in broadsheet format. ''The Dominion Post'' was created in July 2002 with the merger of two metropolitan broadsheet newspapers, ''The Evening Post (New Zealand), The Evening Post'' and ''The Dominion (Wellington), The Dominion''. It was announced in April 2023 that the paper would be renamed ''The Post''. The change of name has garnered a generally unenthusiastic to negative response. Since July 2023, the editor has been Tracy Watkins. History ''The Dominion Post'', 2002–2023 ''The Dominion Post'' (commonly referred to as ''The DomPost'') was created in July 2002 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pansy Wong
Pansy Yu Fong Wong (; born 1955) is a New Zealand former politician. Wong was a National Party Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1996 to 2011. She was New Zealand's first MP and first Cabinet minister of Asian ethnicity and served as Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women's Affairs in the Fifth National Government. Wong resigned from Parliament in January 2011 after allegations of misusing parliamentary travel allowances. Early life and family Wong was born in Shanghai and raised in a one-room Hong Kong apartment by her mother, Pui Ching Chui, with her two brothers after her parents chose to leave Maoist China. Her father, Hung Shun Tsui, a seaman, was away most of the time for work. In Hong Kong, Wong took the English name Pansy and attended the Queen Elizabeth School. The family emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1974, when Wong was aged 19. While working in her parents' fish and chip shop, she studied commerce at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
