Peter Brown (New Zealand politician)
- Peter Brown (New Zealand politician)
Peter Brown (born 1939) is a member of the New Zealand Parliament, and deputy leader of the New Zealand First party. He formerly managed a stevedoring company and led the New Zealand Stevedoring Employers Association; he holds a sea captain's certificate.
Brown was nearly elected to parliament as a New Zealand First candidate for the Kaimai electorate in the 1993 election, entered parliament as a list MP with the 1996 election. He was re-elected as a list MP at the 1999 election and 2002 election.
As of 2004, Brown serves as his party's spokesman on the issues of accident insurance, energy, labour, transport, and statistics. He has promoted the cause of voluntary euthanasia, including proposing the "Death With Dignity" bill which was defeated in a conscience vote in Parliament in 2003.
As a spokesman on migration, Brown suggested in April 2008 there were too many Asian immigrants in New Zealand, and was described as "absolutely being racist" by Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter, and of using "racial stereotyping of the worst sort" by Alasdair Thompson, chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association. Immigration Minister Clayton Cosgrove pointed out Mr Brown's comments were ironic, given that he was a "native born British chap". Hs views were also criticised by fellow NZ First MP Dail Jones.
In August 2008, Peter Brown and the rest of the New Zealand First caucus were faced with damming revelations about the funding of the party through wealthy business interests via a secretive trust. These revelations led to the country's corporate fraud watchdog, the Serious Fraud Office (New Zealand), initiating an investigation into the party and its funding suspecting a 'serious and complex fraud'. Brown as Deputy Leader of the party faces the ignominy of being exposed for being involved in the very thing he has campaigned, along with his other party members, against. By mid September 2008 the revelations had completely undermined the New Zealand First organization. Brown in early September began to distance himself from the revelations utilizing the Sergeant Schultz Defense (or Idiot defense).
External links
* [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10501783] , "NZ First's Brown slammed for 'racist' anti-Asian remarks", NZ Herald, 3 April 2008
* [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10530154] , "Undeclared donation 'a mistake' says NZ First MP", NZ Herald, 2 September 2008
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