Murray McCully

Murray McCully

Murray Stuart McCully CNZM (born February 19, 1953 in Whangarei , Northland ) is Neeseeland's foreign minister and a member of the conservative New Zealand National Party .

biography

After attending Arapohue Primary School and Dargaville High School , he studied law at the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington . After completing his studies with the academic degree of a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), he was admitted as a barrister and as a solicitor and then worked as a lawyer. He was also the managing director of a public relations company.

He began his political career as chairman of the youth organization of the Nationalist Party (Young Nationals) and as director of communications at the headquarters of the NP. He was also vice chairman of the NP in the Auckland region . In 1987 he was elected as a candidate for the New Zealand National Party (NP) for the first time to the House of Representatives , in which he first represented the constituency of East Coast Bays until 1996 and then until 2002 the constituency of Albany . In 2002 he was again elected to the House of Representatives in the West Coast Bays constituency.

In October 1991 he was appointed Minister for Customs and Associate Minister for Tourism for the first time by Prime Minister Jim Bolger . In 1993, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister for Housing. McCully served as Minister of Immigration until the end of Bolger's successor, Jenny Shipley, on December 5, 1999. In doing so, he also earned the reputation of being one of the main strategists of the NP.

After the National Party's victory in the 2008 House of Representatives elections, Prime Minister John Key made him Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Sports and Recreation on November 19, 2008 . He was also Minister for the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup .

Web links

Commons : Murray McCully  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Government of New Zealand
• Personal homepage
• National Party homepage
• Information in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Zealand Government Minister Hon Murray McCully ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.