hon dr nick smith, mp nelson national party
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Local Government Engineering, Consulting Engineering, Equipment Hire Business. First stood for Council while at High School, three years as District Councillor. Nick Smith was born and educated in North Canterbury where his parents founded a construction and crane company. He was an AFS Scholar to Delaware, United States, in 1983 and subsequently completed a first class Honours degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in landslides at Canterbury University.
Nick stood for the Rangiora District Council at 18 while still at secondary school and served as a councillor. He held many offices in Young Nationals and in the senior National Party prior to being selected as the National candidate for Tasman in 1989. Nick won the Tasman seat in the 1990 election and doubled his majority in 1993. Following the MMP reforms in which Tasman was split between Nelson and West Coast, he won the seat of Nelson in 1996 for National and has been re elected in and 2014.
Neither Nelson nor the Tasman electorates had been held by National in the preceding years. Nick has had 12 ministerial portfilios in the Bolger, Shipley and Key Cabinets covering Conservation, Education, Immigration, Corrections, Social Welfare, Treaty negotiations, Environment, Climate Change, ACC, Local Government, Building and Housing. He is currently Minister for the Environment and Minister of Building and Housing, having served twice as Minister of Conservation and Environment. His greatest passion has been improving New Zealand's management of the environment and natural resources.
In 1998, he founded the Bluegreens as a group within National that wish to advance policies that support economic prosperity and a clean, green New Zealand. Current initiatives Nick has underway are significant changes to the Building Act requiring upgrading of earthquake prone buildings and to the Tenancy Act, making smoke alarms and insulation mandatory. In the 1990s, he triggered a major inquiry into the financial collapse of the Druids Friendly Society, and was involved in a dispute with the Exclusive Brethren over family dislocation. In the 200s, advocacy for a constituent family in Nelson over the care of children landed him with a contempt of court conviction which subsequently triggered significant family law reforms.
His more recent legal skirmish came as a consequence of raising concerns alongside a timber scientist about treatment which was subsequently settled out of court. Special legislation that Nick has sponsored through Parliament includes the Tasman District Council Tarakohe Harbour Reclamation Validation and Vesting Act 1995, the Royal Society on New Zealand Act , Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Act and the Bishop Suter Art Gallery Governance Act . Nick's recreational interests include kayaking, tramping, tennis, golf, and he plays the left wing in the Parliamentary Rugby team. 8 National 19
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Nick stood for the Rangiora District Council at 18 while still at secondary school and served as a councillor. He held many offices in Young Nationals and in the senior National Party prior to being selected as the National candidate for Tasman in 1989. Nick won the Tasman seat in the 1990 election and doubled his majority in 1993. Following the MMP reforms in which Tasman was split between Nelson and West Coast, he won the seat of Nelson in 1996 for National and has been re elected in and 2014.
Neither Nelson nor the Tasman electorates had been held by National in the preceding years. Nick has had 12 ministerial portfilios in the Bolger, Shipley and Key Cabinets covering Conservation, Education, Immigration, Corrections, Social Welfare, Treaty negotiations, Environment, Climate Change, ACC, Local Government, Building and Housing. He is currently Minister for the Environment and Minister of Building and Housing, having served twice as Minister of Conservation and Environment. His greatest passion has been improving New Zealand's management of the environment and natural resources.
In 1998, he founded the Bluegreens as a group within National that wish to advance policies that support economic prosperity and a clean, green New Zealand. Current initiatives Nick has underway are significant changes to the Building Act requiring upgrading of earthquake prone buildings and to the Tenancy Act, making smoke alarms and insulation mandatory. In the 1990s, he triggered a major inquiry into the financial collapse of the Druids Friendly Society, and was involved in a dispute with the Exclusive Brethren over family dislocation. In the 200s, advocacy for a constituent family in Nelson over the care of children landed him with a contempt of court conviction which subsequently triggered significant family law reforms.
His more recent legal skirmish came as a consequence of raising concerns alongside a timber scientist about treatment which was subsequently settled out of court. Special legislation that Nick has sponsored through Parliament includes the Tasman District Council Tarakohe Harbour Reclamation Validation and Vesting Act 1995, the Royal Society on New Zealand Act , Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Act and the Bishop Suter Art Gallery Governance Act . Nick's recreational interests include kayaking, tramping, tennis, golf, and he plays the left wing in the Parliamentary Rugby team. 8 National 19
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