Judith Collins
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Judith Anne Collins (born 24 February 1959) is a New Zealand politician.
She is the National MP for Papakura and was a Cabinet minister under John Key and Bill English. Collins was a corporate advocate before starting her own practice for a decade.
She first appeared in Parliament in 2002 and was appointed to Cabinet when National came into power in 2008.
Police, Corrections, and Veterans' Affairs were among her first ministerial portfolios.
Following the 2011 election, her portfolios changed to Justice (including responsibility for the Law Commission), Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Ethnic Affairs.
She was ranked fifth in Cabinet and was the highest-ranked woman in the country.
Collins resigned from Cabinet on August 30, 2014 after e-mail leaks revealed she had assaulted the Serious Fraud Office's chief while she was the Minister in charge of that branch.
She was later found not guilty of any wrongdoing and returned to Cabinet in December 2015, only after National lost control at the 2017 election.
Early life and career
Collins was born in Hamilton. Percy and Jessie Collins of Walton, Waikato, were the youngest of six children. She attended Walton Primary School and Matamata College. She studied at the University of Canterbury in 1977 and 1978. She matriculated in 1979 and obtained an LLB, followed by a LLM (Hons), and later a Master of Taxation Studies. (MTaxS) She graduated with a graduate diploma in Occupational Health and Safety from Massey University in 2020. At university, she met Chinese-Samoan David Wong-Tung. He was then a police officer and had immigrated from Samoa as a youth. They have one son. Collins has referred to herself as a liberal Anglican.
Collins was a Labour Party supporter from childhood, but by 2002, he had been a member of the National Party for three years. She has been a member of Zonta International and Rotary International.
Professional career
She began working as a lawyer, focusing on careers, real estate, corporate, and tax law. She worked as a solicitor for four different companies between 1981 and 1990, and then became principal of her own business, Judith Collins & Associates (1990–2000). She served as special counsel for Minter Ellison Rudd Watts (2000-2002), which was two years before the 2004 election to Parliament.
She was active in legal affairs, and she served as President of the Auckland District Law Society (1998–1999) and Vice President of the New Zealand Law Society (1999–2000). She served as chairperson of the Casino Control Authority (1999-2002) and was a director of Housing New Zealand Limited (1999–2001).
Early parliamentary career (2002–2008)
In the 2002 election, Collins was elected National MP for Clevedon. Although Clevedon was largely based on the old Hunua electorate, which was held by National's Warren Kyd.
Collins became the National Spokesperson on Health and Spokesperson on Internal Affairs in Parliament. The Associate Spokesperson on Justice and Spokesperson on Tourism had these positions changed in 2003. Rich was generally considered having performed well, and when Katherine Richer refused to fully endorse Don Brash's controversial Orewa Speech, she became National's spokesperson on Social Care instead. Collins served as both a spokesperson for Family and a spokesperson on Pacific Island Affairs.
Collins, an opposition politician, called for an investigation to find out if New Zealand troops were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and if so, what effect this may have had. Despite previous reports that contradicted everything, the committee found that troops were exposed to defoliant chemicals during their service in Vietnam and, consequently, operated in a hostile environment. This culminated in an apology from Labour-led Government to Veterans in 2004, as well as the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to assist veterans. Collins received the Ex-Vietnam Services Association Pin in 2004 for his campaigning for the investigation.
The 2008 electorate in Collins' Clevedon has changed following boundary shifts. She had intended to apply for the National Party nomination for Howick, which is part of her former Clevedon constituency. Following opposition from the Electoral Commission over a draft revision to the boundaries that resulted in a major redrawing of the adjacent constituency Pakuranga, the Howick draft was redrawn and renamed Botany. Collins then sought and received the nomination for Papakura (which includes the other half of her former Clevedon electorate) and encouraged her colleague Pansy Wong to request Botany. Collins gained Papakura by a majority of more than 10,000 votes.