Steffan Browning

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Steffan Browning
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Green party list
In office
30 November 2011 (2011-11-30) –23 September 2017 (2017-09-23)
Personal details
Born
Steffan John Browning

(1954-07-03) 3 July 1954 (age 65)
Clyde, New Zealand
Political party Green

Steffan John Browning (born 3 July 1954) is a New Zealand politician of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 2011 and retired in 2017.

The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is a left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many Green parties around the world it has four organisational pillars: ecology, social responsibility, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence. It also accepts Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand and recognises Māori as Tangata Whenua.

New Zealand House of Representatives Sole chamber of New Zealand Parliament

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Early life

Browning was born in Clyde, New Zealand in 1954. [1] He has been employed by the Soil & Health Association as its spokesperson since 2003. [1] [2]

Clyde, New Zealand Town in Otago, New Zealand

Clyde, formerly Dunstan, is a small town in Central Otago, New Zealand with a population of 1011 in 2013. It is located on the Clutha River, between Cromwell and Alexandra.

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand, established in 1941, is an organisation that promotes organic food and farming in New Zealand.

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2011 –2014 50th List 10 Green
2014 –2017 51st List14 Green

Browning is a member of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. He was ranked 19th on their party list at the 2002 election, eleventh in 2005 and twelfth in 2008. He stood as the Greens candidate in the Kaikōura electorate.

2002 New Zealand general election

The 2002 New Zealand general election was held on 27 July 2002 to determine the composition of the 47th New Zealand Parliament. It saw the reelection of Helen Clark's Labour Party government, as well as the worst-ever performance by the opposition National Party.

Kaikōura (New Zealand electorate) Current New Zealand electorate

Kaikōura is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning a single MP to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Kaikōura is Stuart Smith of the National Party, who won the 2014 election.

Browning was placed in tenth place on the Green Party list for the 2011 election, [3] when he was elected to Parliament, with the Greens gaining 14 seats. For the 2014 election, he was initially demoted to number 15, [4] [5] but was number 14 on the final list after twelfth-ranked Holly Walker subsequently withdrew from the list. [6] The Greens again won 14 seats and Browning returned to parliament as their last MP from the party list. [7] Based on preliminary election results, he would have missed out. [8] [9]

2011 New Zealand general election election in New Zealand

The 2011 New Zealand general election on Saturday 26 November 2011 determined the membership of the 50th New Zealand Parliament.

2014 New Zealand general election

The 2014 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 20 September 2014 to determine the membership of the 51st New Zealand Parliament.

Holly Walker New Zealand politician

Holly Ruth Walker was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2011–2014, as a Green Party list MP. She is currently a public servant, writer and book reviewer.

Homeopathy controversy

In November 2014 the Green Party stripped Browning of his natural health products portfolio, after he signed and shared an online petition supporting the use of homeopathy to treat Ebola virus disease. [10] Party co-leader Metiria Turei described Browning's actions as "a mistake", and said that the portfolio change was designed to reassure the public that the Greens "take health issues seriously". [11] Browning said he did not oppose homeopathy on a personal level. [12]

Homeopathy Pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine based on the doctrine of "like cures like"

Homeopathy or homœopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like, a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, indicating that any positive effects that follow treatment are not due to the treatment itself but instead to factors such as normal recovery from illness, or regression toward the mean.

Ebola virus disease Viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses

Ebola virus disease (EVD), also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses. Signs and symptoms typically start between two days and three weeks after contracting the virus with a fever, sore throat, muscular pain, and headaches. Vomiting, diarrhea and rash usually follow, along with decreased function of the liver and kidneys. At this time, some people begin to bleed both internally and externally. The disease has a high risk of death, killing 25% to 90% of those infected, with an average of about 50%. This is often due to low blood pressure from fluid loss, and typically follows 6 to 16 days after symptoms appear.

Metiria Turei New Zealand politician

Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei is a former New Zealand politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017 and the female co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 to 2017. Turei resigned from the co-leader position on 9 August 2017 amid a political controversy arising from her admission to lying to the Ministry of Social Development to receive higher payments when she was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and later, to being enrolled to vote in an electorate where she was not eligible when she was 23.

Announcement that he would not contest the 2017 general election

On 15 December 2016, he announced alongside Catherine Delahunty that he will not be seeking re-election in the 2017 election. [13]

Catherine Delahunty New Zealand politician

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2017 New Zealand general election Election on 23 September 2017

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References

  1. 1 2 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. "Steffan Browning". Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Soil & Health Association of New Zealand Inc. "Soil & Health Media Releases". Organic NZ. Archived from the original on 28 November 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "2011 election candidates" (Press release). Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  4. ↑ "2014 election candidates" (Press release). Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Greens unveil party list for election". TVNZ. 25 May 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Green MP Holly Walker to step down from party list" (Press release). Green Party. Scoop . Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  7. ↑ Rutherford, Hamish (4 October 2014). "National loses majority, Greens pick up one". Stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Provisional List of Successful Candidates – 2014 General Election – Preliminary Results". Electoral Commission. 21 September 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Bell, Cathie (20 September 2014). "National's Stuart Smith wins Kaikoura". The Marlborough Express . Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Gulliver, A (30 October 2014). "PM says using homeopathy to treat Ebola is mad". Stuff.co.nz. Fairfax. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  11. ↑ Davison, I (4 November 2014). "MP demoted after suggesting homeopathy use in Ebola fight". The New Zealand Herald. APN. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  12. ↑ Crayton-Brown, B (4 November 2014). "MP loses portfolio over Ebola petition". Stuff.co.nz. Fairfax. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "Green Party MPs Catherine Delahunty and Steffan Browning not seeking re-election". Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
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