Colin Moyle

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Colin Moyle
Colin Moyle
In office
1963 – 1969
Succeeded by Seat abolished
In office
1969 – 1977
Succeeded by David Lange
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hunua
In office
1981 – 1984
Preceded by Winston Peters
Born April 11, 1929 (1929-04-11) (age 79)
Whangarei, Flag of New Zealand New Zealand
Political party Labour

Colin James Moyle (born 1929) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

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[edit] Member of Parliament

He represented the Auckland seat of Manukau from 1963 to 1969, then Mangere from 1969 to 1977, when he resigned.

[edit] The Moyle affair

Moyle resigned following what was known as the 'Moyle affair'. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon accused Moyle in Parliament of having been questioned by the police on suspicion of homosexual activities, which were then illegal in New Zealand. After changing his story several times, Moyle resigned from Parliament. Moyle had previously been considered a potential party leader, and it has been suggested that Muldoon saw him as a threat and acted accordingly.[1] Ironically, the subsequent by-election was won by David Lange, and the attention that this got him helped propel him to the leadership of the Labour Party and his landslide victory over Muldoon in the 1984 election.

In 1981, Moyle stood for and won the Hunua seat. In 1984 he switched to Otara, which he held until his retirement in 1990. He was the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Lange government.

He had been a Cabinet Minister in the Third Labour Government.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ David Lange, My Life, 2005. ISBN 0-670-04556-X

[edit] References

New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)

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