Phil Goff
Philip Bruce "Phil" Goff , CNZM (born June 22, 1953 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand politician .
biography
Goff has already appeared as a 16-year-old in 1969 in the New Zealand Labor Party (LP) and was from 1975 to 1977 chairman of the advisory committee of the youth wing of the party ( Labor Party Youth ) and 1980-1981 organizer of the Trade Union of Insurance Employees ( Insurance Workers Union ) .
His actual political career began in 1981, when he was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives as a candidate of the LP , in which he represented the constituency of Roskill until his electoral defeat in 1990 . During this time he was appointed Minister of Housing by Prime Minister David Lange in 1984 and held this office until 1987. He was also Minister of the Environment from 1986 to 1987 and Minister of Labor from 1986 to 1989. As part of a government reshuffle, he was also Minister of Tourism from 1987 to 1988 and Minister of Youth from 1987 to 1989. Most recently, he was Minister of Education under Prime Ministers Geoffrey Palmer and Mike Moore from August 1989 to November 1990.
In 1993 he was re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives, this time first again representing the constituency of Roskill and then from 1996 to 1999 the constituency of New Lynn . As a representative of the Mt. Roskill constituency , he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 and then re-elected in the 2002 and 2005 elections.
In December 1999, he was selected by Prime Minister Helen Clark to foreign appointed and Minister of Justice. In a cabinet reshuffle after the 2005 elections, Clark appointed him as Secretary of Commerce and Defense. As Secretary of Defense, he was also de facto Commander in Chief of the New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF).
When Helen Clark resigned as party leader after the LP was defeated in November 2008 , Goff was elected her successor and is thus also the opposition leader in the House of Representatives.
While nine of Goff's eleven predecessors were also Prime Minister as chairman of the LP, this career was already denied him in a newspaper article and this was justified with several aspects.
Phil Goff was elected Mayor of Auckland on October 8, 2016 .
Web links
- Hon. Phil Goff . New Zealand Labor Party, archived from the original onFebruary 26, 2009; accessed on May 5, 2018(English, original website no longer available).
- Hon Phil Goff . New Zealand Parliament, October 12, 2016,accessed May 5, 2018.
- rulers.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Gordon Campbell interviews the Leader of the Opposition, Phil Goff
- ↑ THE NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW: "Prime Minister Phil Goff?"
- ^ Phil Goff elected Mayor of Auckland. The New Zealand Herald, October 8, 2016, accessed June 22, 2017 .
Alfred Hindmarsh (1916–1918) • Harry Holland (1919–1933) • Michael Joseph Savage (1933–1940) • Peter Fraser (1940–1950) • Walter Nash (1951–1963) • Arnold Nordmeyer (1963–1965) • Norman Kirk (1965–1974) • Bill Rowling (1974–1983) • David Lange (1983–1989) • Geoffrey Palmer (1989–1990) • Mike Moore (1990–1993) • Helen Clark (1993–2008) • Phil Goff ( 2008–2011) • David Shearer (2011–2013) • David Cunliffe (2013–2014) • Andrew Little (2014–2017) • Jacinda Ardern (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goff, Phil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goff, Philip Bruce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland |