Richard Northey
Richard Northey ONZM | |
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Onehunga | |
In office 6 November 1993 – 12 October 1996 | |
Preceded by | Grahame Thorne |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Eden | |
In office 14 July 1984 – 27 October 1990 | |
Preceded by | Aussie Malcolm |
Succeeded by | Christine Fletcher |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 April 1945 Hamilton, New Zealand |
Political party | Labour |
Profession | Lecturer |
Richard John Northey
Biography
Early life and career
Northey was born in Hamilton in 1945 and was educated at Auckland Grammar School. He then attended the University of Auckland where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and physics and a first class Master of Arts in political science.[1]
He then found employment as a youth and recreation officer, arts advisor and employment officer. He became president of the New Zealand Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and served on the committee of the New Zealand Consultative Committee on Disarmament. He was also an executive member of the Auckland District Council of Social Service and Citizens' Advocacy and the president of the Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE).[2]
He joined the Labour Party and became chairman of Princes Street Labour as well as the Eden Central and Orakei branches. Later he was chair of the Tamaki and Eden electorate committees. Northey also was the vice-president, and later president, of the Auckland Labour Regional Council and was a member of Labour's national executive as a youth representative.[3]
Local body politics
Northey first stood as a Labour Party candidate for the Auckland City Council at the 1968 local elections. He stood for the council unsuccessfully four times before finally winning a seat at a by-election in February 1979.[4] He lost his seat at the next election in 1980. After exiting the council Northey stood unsuccessfully for Parliament against the then Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, in the Tamaki electorate in the 1981 election. In the 1983 local elections Northey regained a seat on the city council before deciding not to stand for re-election in 1986.[5]
Member of Parliament
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
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1984–1987 | 41st | Eden | Labour | ||
1987–1990 | 42nd | Eden | Labour | ||
1993–1996 | 44th | Onehunga | Labour |
He was first elected to
After losing his seat in 1990, he attempted to regain a seat on the Auckland City Council. He stood as a candidate in a 1991 by-election for the Maungakiekie Ward, finishing runner-up to Ken Graham.[8]
In the 1993 election he returned to Parliament, now representing Onehunga which he took off National's Grahame Thorne. He was selected as the Labour candidate in Onehunga in preference to Chris Diack, a supporter of controversial former finance minister Roger Douglas. After missing out on the nomination Diack and his allies in the branch drained the electorate cash accounts by lump paying more than $6000 in outstanding debts to party headquarters, leaving just $7 to fund Northey's campaign in an act of spite. They then took ownership of an income-earning rental house from the Onehunga Labour Party and used it to instead fund the ACT Party (to whom Diack defected to in 1994) before finally being returned to the Labour Party after a long legal case in 2004.[9]
After re-entering Parliament Northey was aligned to Helen Clark who replaced Moore as leader. Clark appointed him Labour's Shadow Minister of Local Government and Youth Affairs.[10] In a 1995 reshuffle he was also given the disarmament and arms control portfolio.[11] In the 1996 election he contested the Maungakiekie seat after boundary changes caused by the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation, but was defeated in an upset by National's Belinda Vernon. He was not ranked high enough on Labour's list to remain in Parliament.
In June 2020 it was revealed that the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service had spied upon Northey during his time in Parliament, under the pretext of his support for racial equality and nuclear disarmament.[12] At the time he was chair of the Justice and Law Reform Select Committee, which was responsible for financial oversight of the SIS, and of legislation altering its powers.
Return to local politics
Years | Ward | Affiliation | |
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2010–2013 | Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
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Labour |
He has since entered local politics, serving on the
Northey became a member of Labour's national council for six years and was chairman of the party's policy committee. In 2000 he stood unsuccessfully to replace Bob Harvey as President of the Labour Party, but was defeated by Mike Williams.[15]
He was elected to the new
At the
Personal life
He was a
Notes
- ^ Who's Who 1993, p. 61.
- ^ Who's Who 1993, p. 61-62.
- ^ a b c Who's Who 1993, p. 62.
- ^ "Declaration of Result of Election". The New Zealand Herald. 12 February 1979. p. 17.
- ^ Bush 1991, p. 434.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 221.
- ^ Bassett 2008, p. 536.
- ^ Bassett 2013, p. 382.
- ^ "Saga of Onehunga Labour Party house ends with whimper". The New Zealand Herald. 13 December 2004. p. A2.
- ^ "The Labour Shadow Cabinet". The Dominion. 14 December 1993. p. 2.
- ^ Kilroy, Simon (28 February 1995). "Caygill takes over as Labour spokesman for foreign affairs". The Dominion. p. 2.
- Radio NZ. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ Bassett 2013, p. 370.
- ^ "Isolated Hucker vows to fight on". The New Zealand Herald. 27 June 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Ex-MP in bid for Labour president post". The New Zealand Herald. 4 August 2000. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Super City elections 2013: Challenger out to unseat Northey – National – NZ Herald News". The New Zealand Herald. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Executive committee- the University of Auckland". Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2002". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
References
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
- Bush, Graham (1991). Advance in order: the Auckland City Council from centenary to reorganisation, 1971–1989. Auckland City Council. ISBN 0908834039.
- ISBN 978-1927262009.
- ISBN 978-1-86971-094-1.
- Who's Who in the New Zealand Parliament 1993. Wellington: Parliamentary Service. 1993.