David Cunliffe

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David Cunliffe closing the 2005 Auckland BioBlitz

Parl.	Electorate	List Pos.	Party
46th	Titirangi	53	Labour
47th	New Lynn	37	Labour
48th	New Lynn	31	Labour

David Richard Cunliffe is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party.

Cunliffe studied politics at Otago University before working first as a diplomat and then as a business consultant. In 1994 and 1995, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1999 elections, standing as the Labour candidate for the Titirangi seat. Since the 2002 election he has represented the seat of New Lynn.

Cunliffe is a supporter of New Zealand becoming a republic. During the Address-In-Reply debate on 4 September 2002, Cunliffe said: "A New Zealand where we journey together towards maturity as a nation, and to the Commonwealth republic I personally believe we will become before the Treaty turns 200" ^[1].

[edit] Cabinet member

He is the Minister of Immigration, Minister of Communications, Minister of Information Technology, and Associate Minister of Economic Development.

In the 2002 - 2005 Parliament he held the ICT portfolios and was Associate Minister of Finance and Revenue, after previously serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary for Finance and Commerce.

During his first term (1999-2002) he served as Chair of the Commerce Select Committee, and sat on the Finance and Expenditure and Regulations Review select committees.