Doug Woolerton

New Zealand Parliament

Doug Woolerton
1st President of New Zealand First
In office 1993–2005
Years	Term	Electorate	List	Party
1996 –99	45th	List	8		NZ First
1999 –2002	46th	List	5		NZ First
2002 –05	47th	List	5		NZ First
2005 –08	48th	List	5		NZ First

Woolerton first entered Parliament in the 1996 election, becoming a list MP after being ranked fifth on the New Zealand First party list. He remained an MP until his party lost all parliamentary seats in the 2008 general election.

He was the president of New Zealand First from the party's inception until 2005 when he resigned in protest against Winston Peters taking a visible role in the Labour-led government as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Later there were frictions between then New Zealand First president Dail Jones on the one hand, and Woolerton and Brian Donnelly on the other, over the latter's support for Sue Bradford's private members bill to outlaw parental corporal punishment of children (or smacking). ^[1]

References

1. "New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2007.

External links

• Doug Woolerton at the New Zealand Parliament website
• Doug Woolerton at the New Zealand First website ^{[ usurped ]}
• Doug Woolerton on "They Work For You"
• Doug Woolerton talks about innovation and investment

Party political offices
New political party	President of New Zealand First 1993–2005	Succeeded by Dail Jones