X-Nico

6 unusual facts about New Zealand National Party


Abortion in New Zealand

National MP for Clevedon Judith Collins was the primary mover of this amendment, supported by the pro-life lobby group Voice for Life (formerly known as SPUC).

House Negro

In New Zealand in 2012, Hone Harawira, a Member of Parliament and leader of the socialist Mana Party, aroused controversy after referring to Maori MPs from the ruling New Zealand National Party as "little house niggers" during a heated debate on electricity privatisation, and its potential effect on Waitangi Tribunal claims.

John Collinge

John Gregory Collinge (born 10 May 1939) is a former president of the New Zealand National Party and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Ministers of the New Zealand Government

Different parties have different mechanisms for this - the Labour Party, for example, has provision for caucus to select ministers, while in the National Party, a Prime Minister theoretically has greater authority to make their own selections.

New Zealand intelligence agencies

While both major political parties (Labour and National) broadly support the current arrangements, there exists a movement which seeks an overhaul of the system, or even the outright abolition of New Zealand's intelligence agencies.

Television in New Zealand

By 1998–1999, the National Party–led coalition was moving to privatise TVNZ and announced that the broadcasting fee would be discontinued.


Alfred James Davey

Alfred James Davey (1886 – 2 October 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party

This placed them behind the New Zealand National Party, New Zealand Labour Party, Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, New Zealand First, Maori Party, Mana Party and ACT New Zealand, all of which won electorate representation whether due to party lists and/or electorate seats.

Bassett Road machine gun murders

Involved on the periphery of these issues at the time were two New Zealand National Party politicians, Rob Muldoon (a future New Zealand Prime Minister) and John Banks, whose father Archibald was involved in the beerhouse/sly grog milieu and sent his then-teenage son out to provide cleaning services for his father's clients.

Cam Campion

-- source is for date of death, not birth--> was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986

The first parliamentary attempt at decriminalisation was made in 1974, with National MP Venn Young's Crimes Amendment Bill.

Kavanagh College

Michael Woodhouse (born c.1965) - National Party List Member of Parliament, Chief Government whip (2008–2013); Cabinet Minister (2013–present) (Christian Brothers).

Lianne Dalziel

The newspaper expressed surprise by this pairing, given that Dalziel is a Labour Party member, and Johnson is a member of the Young Nats, the youth arm of the National Party.

Marilyn Pryor

She subsequently joined the New Zealand National Party instead, and lost nomination for its Kapiti electorate to Roger Sowry in 1987, who later served as a Cabinet Minister under the administrations of Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley in the nineties.

Marlborough, Auckland

In 2013 this suburb comprised part of the Northcote electorate and is represented by the Member of Parliament Jonathan Coleman, of the National Party.

New Zealand Democratic Coalition

A meeting between Moore and Michelle Boag was organised in "late 1994" by Laws to discuss the potential of National Party donors financing a new Centre party.

New Zealand general election, 1981

It saw the governing National Party, led by Robert Muldoon, win a third term in office, although the opposition Labour Party, led by Bill Rowling, actually won the largest share of the votes cast.

Resource Management Act 1991

However, the new National Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, continued the law reform process leading to the enactment of the RMA.

Silver fern flag

The first suggestion that a silver fern flag be adopted as New Zealand's official flag came in 1998 from Cultural Affairs Minister Marie Hasler of the National Party.

Škoda 120

The car also got a political reputation at the General Election in 1984, when a defeated National Party MP, Pat Hunt, derisively referred to his Social Credit Party opponent, Neil Morrison, who won the seat as a member of "the Crimplene suit and Škoda brigade".

St Kilda, New Zealand

This electorate existed from 1946 to 1993 (after which it was replaced by the new Dunedin South electorate), and was represented in turn by Fred Jones (Labour, 1946-1951), Sir James Barnes (National, 1951-1957), Bill Fraser, (Labour, 1957-1981), and Michael Cullen (Labour, 1981-1993).


see also

Luxton

John Luxton (born 1946), former New Zealand National Party politician

Plymouth Brethren Christian Church

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Gerry Brownlee and Economic Development spokeswoman Katherine Rich expressed concerns about the Brethren's lack of political sophistication and loss of female voters for the New Zealand National Party at the 2005 general election.