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- 4 May 2026
Background
Hon Chris Bishop is a National Party [47] Member of Parliament for Hutt South [27] , currently serving as Attorney-General [23] and Minister of Transport [39] . Bishop was educated at Eastern Hutt School and Hutt International Boys'…
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Pecuniary interests
2025 register · as of 27 May 2026As a sitting MP, this candidate files an annual Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests. Items below are the most recent declarations from the Register.
- Debts owed by you
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ANZ Bank ANZ Bank – mortgages (x2)
- Gifts
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NZ Olympic Committee Clothing – NZ Olympic CommitteeNZ Paralympic Committee Clothing – NZ Paralympic CommitteeAuckland Council Hospitality (for One NZ Warriors game) – Mayor Wayne Brown, Auckland CouncilNZ Cricket Hospitality (for five games) and clothing – NZ CricketHurricanes Rugby Hospitality (for four games) – Hurricanes RugbyAuckland Council Hospitality at Pearl Jam Concert – Mayor Wayne Brown, Auckland CouncilGeneral Finance Hospitality lunch with Boris Johnson – General FinanceSport NZ Hospitality tickets (x2) to annual awards ceremony – Sport NZProperty Council of NZ Hospitality tickets to Industry Awards Ceremony – Property Council of NZChatham Islands Council Seafood – Paul Eagle, Chief Executive Officer, Chatham Islands CouncilInfrastructure New Zealand Tickets to Building Nations Conference and Gala Dinner – Infrastructure New ZealandNZ Olympic Committee Tickets to various Olympics Events – NZ Olympic CommitteeNZ Paralympic Committee Tickets to various Paralympics Events – NZ Paralympic Committee
- Overseas travel costs
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World Anti-Doping Agency Switzerland – WADA Executive Committee Meeting. Contributor to travel and accommodation: World Anti-Doping Agency.
- Real property
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Family home – Days Bay, Lower Hutt
- Retirement schemes
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Simplicity KiwiSaver Simplicity KiwiSaver
Recent press
50 articles across 7 outletsRNZ 12
- Christchurch councillor Sam MacDonald suggests tolling Selwyn and Waimakariri
- How many 'forever chemicals' are actually in NZ's water?
- The town hoping to buy its golf course back from a developer
- Pegasus township hopes to buy back golf course from developer Wolfbrook
- New Zealand's Definitions of Woman and Man Bill and how the public can give submissions
- Six times Kiwi creatives called out the government
- New York mayor inspired by Auckland's residential zoning
- 'It won't fix it': Doubts over $75m Waioweka Gorge funding
- Budget 2026: Rail network funding boost not enough to fix 'generations of neglect' - councillor
- Budget 2026: Rangatahi abandoned as homelessness hits record levels - youth advocates
- Budget 2026: Waikato Expressway extension announced, $1 billion boost for rail
- Budget 2026 at a glance: The big changes, winners and losers - what you need to know
Stuff 11
- ‘They’ll take a reasonable offer’: Town hopes to buy its golf course back from developer
- ‘Wellington created a monster’: What do people make of Wayne Brown’s governing style?
- Locals ‘really excited’ about $1.7b extension of SH1 expressway, ministers say
- Budget 2026: what’s missing for motorists as EV support continues to unwind
- New York mayor inspired by Auckland's residential zoning
- Budget 2026: Government earmarks $400m to fix disaster-prone state highways
- Budget 2026 at a glance: Where the Government is spending big
- 'Balanced books are now in sight,' Willis says, as forecast shows earlier return to surplus
- Rail gets $1b boost, dangerous stretch of SH1 to be bypassed
- The world is watching New Zealand’s housing crash — and asking what went wrong
- The world is watching New Zealand’s housing crash — and asking what went wrong
Otago Daily Times 7
The Spinoff 6
- Privately funded second Auckland harbour bridge ‘unlikely to achieve value for money’, NZTA report warns
- From Herbs to Head Like a Hole: MPs on their favourite local albums
- 10 essential reads on Budget 2026
- Not an election-year budget? Sure it was
- From Eminem to Michael Jackson: watching the budget debate
- Budget 2026: The great Spinoff hot-take roundtable
1News 6
- Auckland's housing intensification plans may face dramatic scale-back
- Pegasus township hopes to buy back golf course from developer Wolfbrook
- Pegasus community ‘shocked’ at plan to turn golf course into housing
- Trains given boost in Budget with $1.1bn KiwiRail plan
- Budget 2026: So are fuel taxes being hiked next year or not?
- Budget 2026: New motorway funded, bowel cancer screening age lowered
Newsroom 4
NZ Herald 4
- Waikato Expressway extension: Ministers visit future site of Cambridge to Piarere section of $1.77b road
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani inspired by Auckland’s residential zoning
- Gisborne elderly and solo parents fear higher costs under social housing reforms
- Budget 2026: Almost $1.8b to extend Waikato Expressway from Cambridge to Piarere as part of Roads of National Significance