Sue Bradford
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Sue Bradford (born 1952) is a New Zealand politician and a list Member of Parliament for the Green Party.
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[edit] Early life
She is an Auckland University graduate in History and Political Studies, and still at that university she obtained a MA in Chinese. Furthering her academic education she was a postgraduate at Canterbury University where she received a diploma in Journalism.
[edit] Member of Parliament
| Parl. | Electorate | List Pos. | Party |
| 46th | List | 4 | Greens |
| 47th | List | 3 | Greens |
| 48th | List | 3 → 2 | Greens |
She is a member of the Green Party, and was first elected to Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections. Prior to that, she had been a member of the Green Party since 1990, and had contested the 1998 Auckland mayoral election as the Green candidate. Before joining the Greens, she was active in the NewLabour Party, and was its president from 1989 to 1990.
As of 2005 she is the Green Party spokesperson on ACC, Agriculture, Buy Kiwi-Made, Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Economic Development, Gambling, Housing, Industrial Relations, Internal Affairs, Mental Health, National Library and Archives, Racing, Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Small Business and Social Development.
She was the New Zealand Herald's Backbencher of the Year 2000.
[edit] Child Discipline Bill
In 2005, her members bill, Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill 2005, was drawn. The Bill would remove the provision allowing parents to use resonable force in correcting their children and has passed its second parliamentary reading, and will become law if it passes its third reading [1]. One reaction to that was her nomination on the "CYFSWatch" website as a possible candidate for New Zealand's first political assassination. Google removed the website soon after from its Blogger service [2].
- See also: New Zealand blogosphere#CYFS Watch
[edit] References
- Sue Bradford. Parliament. Retrieved on August 15, 2006.
- The year in politics: The year of living cautiously. NZ Herald. Retrieved on August 15, 2006.
- The Holmes Interview: Sue Bradford - a feisty battler. The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved on 2007-03-04
[edit] External links
- Sue Bradford bio (Green Party website)
- Sue Bradford bio (NZ Parliament website)
