James Robert Sutton,generally known as Jim Sutton,is a New Zealand politician who was a Member of Parliament between 1984 and 1990 and again between 1993 and 2006. He has held a range of ministerial portfolios including Agriculture,Forestry,Rural Affairs,Biosecurity,and Trade Negotiations.
Ruth Suzanne Dyson is a former New Zealand politician. She was a Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2020. She represented the Port Hills electorate from the 2008 election election to 2020. She also held a number of senior offices in the Labour Party,including president.
David William Parker is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who currently serves as Attorney-General,Minister for the Environment,Minister of Oceans and Fisheries,Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Finance in the Sixth Labour Government. He previously served as a Cabinet Minister in the Fifth Labour Government and as interim Leader of the Labour Party from September to November 2014. He represented the Otago electorate at the 47th Parliament and has since served as a list MP.
Aoraki was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that existed for four parliamentary terms from 1996 to 2008. It was held by Jim Sutton of the Labour Party for three terms,and the remaining term by Jo Goodhew of the National Party. It was located in the South Island,covering southern Canterbury and northern Otago. It was named after the mountain Aoraki / Mount Cook.
South Canterbury is the area of the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand bounded by the Rangitata River in the north and the Waitaki River to the south. The Pacific Ocean and ridge of the Southern Alps / KāTiritiri o te Moana form natural boundaries to the east and west respectively. Though the exact boundaries of the region have never been formalised,the term is used for a variety of government agencies and other entities. It is one of four traditional sub-regions of Canterbury,along with Mid Canterbury,North Canterbury,and Christchurch city.
The 2008 New Zealand general election was held on 8 November 2008 to determine the composition of the 49th New Zealand Parliament. The liberal-conservative National Party,headed by its parliamentary leader John Key,won the largest share of votes and seats,ending nine years of government by the social-democratic Labour Party,led by Helen Clark. Key announced a week later that he would lead a National minority government with confidence-and-supply support from the ACT,United Future and Māori parties. The Governor-General swore Key in as New Zealand's 38th Prime Minister on 19 November 2008. This marked the beginning of the Fifth National Government which governed for the next nine years,until the 2017 general election,when a government was formed between the Labour and New Zealand First parties,with support on confidence and supply by the Green Party.
Rakaia was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region from 1972 to 1978 and 1993 to 2008.
Rangitata is an electorate in the South Island of New Zealand. It first existed for two parliamentary terms in the late 19th century and was re-established for the 2008 general election. It largely replaced the Aoraki electorate,but included parts of the Rakaia electorate as well.
Grant Murray Robertson is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as the 19th deputy prime minister of New Zealand since 2020 and the minister of Finance since 2017. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellington Central since 2008.
Nicola Laura Kaye is a New Zealand politician who served as Deputy Leader of the New Zealand National Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 22 May 2020 to 14 July 2020.
The 49th New Zealand Parliament was elected at the 2008 election. It comprised 122 members,including an overhang of two seats caused by the Māori Party having won two more electorate seats than its share of the party vote would otherwise have given it. The Parliament served from 2008 until the November 2011 election.
Michael Allan Woodhouse is a National member of the New Zealand Parliament.
David Scott Clark is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for Dunedin. He was the Minister of Health until July 2020,when he resigned after multiple controversies related to the response to COVID-19. Previously he has been Opposition Spokesperson for Small Business and Economic Development.
The 2016 New Zealand National Party leadership election was held on 12 December 2016 to determine the next Leader of the National Party and the 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand. A secret exhaustive ballot of the 59-member National parliamentary caucus was to be used in the event of a contested leadership.
The 52nd New Zealand Parliament was a session of legislature in New Zealand,which opened on 7 November 2017 following the 2017 general election and dissolved on 6 September 2020. The New Zealand Parliament comprises the Sovereign and the House of Representatives,which consists of 120 members.
Kiritapu Lyndsay Allan is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the New Zealand House of Representatives. A member of the Labour Party,she entered the House as a list MP in 2017,and won the East Coast electorate in 2020.
Jo-Anne Marie Luxton is a New Zealand politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
Elizabeth Dorothy Craig is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. As a public health physician,she has become known for her research work on child poverty.
Andrew Hamilton Falloon is a former New Zealand politician,serving as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party from 2017 until his resignation in July 2020.
The Shadow Cabinet of Judith Collins formed the official Opposition in the 53rd New Zealand Parliament,and previously in the 52nd Parliament. It comprised the members of the New Zealand National Party,which is the largest party not a member of the Government. On Collins' dismissal as leader on 25 November 2021,the cabinet essentially ceased to exist,but what remained was de jure led on an interim basis by her deputy leader,Shane Reti,until the next leadership election. The cabinet was succeeded by that of Christopher Luxon.
