Bernie Ogilvy

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Bernie Ogilvy
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for United Future list
In office
27 July 2002 17 September 2005
Personal details
Political party Kiwi
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United Future New Zealand

Bernard James Ogilvy is a New Zealand educator and politician. He was a list member of Parliament (MP) for the United Future New Zealand party from 2002 to 2005. He left United Future with the breakaway Kiwi Party in 2007.

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Early years

Before entering national politics, Ogilvy lectured at Auckland's Masters Institute, a fundamentalist Christian teachers college, [1] as well as being involved with Youth With A Mission.

Member of Parliament

New Zealand Parliament
YearsTermElectorateListParty
20022005 47th List3 United Future

He was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as a list MP for the United Future party in the 2002 general election. Controversy arose when the media reported that he had been using the title "Doctor" on the basis of an honorary degree awarded by a Californian theological school for his volunteer work at the 1984 Olympic Games. [2] Like his colleagues, Murray Smith, Paul Adams and Larry Baldock, Ogilvy was an evangelical or fundamentalist Christian. Like the above, and Marc Alexander, he lost his seat at the 2005 general election when the party's electoral support fell to one third its previous level.

Later years

Ogilvy reappeared as secretary of the new Kiwi Party in 2007, after Gordon Copeland seceded from United Future over Peter Dunne's support for Sue Bradford's child discipline bill, which sought to outlaw most forms of parental corporal punishment of children in New Zealand. Ogilvy made the application to register the Kiwi Party with the Electoral Commission. [3]

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References

  1. Quality Public Education Coalition Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine , The Maxim Institute
  2. Armstrong, John (16 September 2002). "'Dr' Ogilvy MP demoted to Mr". New Zealand Herald .
  3. Electoral Commission Archived 15 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine , The Kiwi Party - Application to register a political party