- Kind
- Electorate & list
- Source
- elections-wikipedia
- As of
- 4 May 2026
Background
Louise Upston is a New Zealand National Party politician [35] and Member of Parliament for Taupō, a seat she has held since 2008 [18] . Upston studied at Waikato University [11] and, according to a secondary source, may hold an MBA [34]…
AI-assembled biography sourced from Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive and the Parliament register. Every claim is footnoted to a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources and tagged confirmed / unverified / disputed.
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.
- Gifts
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Eden Park Trust Tickets (x2) to Luke Combs – Eden Park TrustSupercars Australia Tickets (x2) to Supercars – Supercars Australia
- Real property
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Apartment (jointly owned) – WellingtonFamily home (jointly owned) – Cambridge
- Retirement schemes
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Fisher Funds KiwiSaver Scheme Fisher Funds KiwiSaver Scheme
Recent press
50 articles across 7 outletsOtago Daily Times 13
- Patent nonsense in Parliament on a dusty Saturday night
- More food banks will close: Salvation Army
- Warning more food banks will close
- Labour questions if disappearing briefing 'deliberate cover-up'
- Geez Louise, being entitled does not mean you should take it
- Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
- Caregiver, transport funding cuts denounced
- Politicians, allowances, and the democratisation of misery
- Weighty issues face SpaceX’s starship programme
- The secret diary of ... Louise Upston
- Govt pushing law change to allow AI to make benefit decisions
- No interest in MP allowance change after backlash
- Person dies on beach after boat capsizes in Kaikōura
Stuff 13
- Ministry says it could always use automated decision-making to make welfare decisions
- Stuff journalists could be banned from Parliament over hallway photo
- Shaun White's global snow league coming to New Zealand
- Government denies plans to means-test disability support after controversial bill sparks concerns
- Parliament after hours: The random laws MPs urgently passed over the weekend
- Regional passengers dealt another blow as Air NZ scraps Gotta Go scheme
- MPs claiming accommodation allowances ‘something we’re looking at’, Hipkins says
- Locals ‘really excited’ about $1.7b extension of SH1 expressway, ministers say
- Government uses Budget urgency to pass bill allowing the automation of welfare decisions
- Wild predictions for Budget 2026
- ‘It is time for Parliament to allow courts to do their work’: Senior lawyers sound alarm over law-making trend
- Minister defends claiming $1000 allowance for mortgage-free apartment – but won’t say what her costs are
- Nicola Willis has billions stored away to pull a Budget Day rabbit out the hat
RNZ 12
- Political reporters in stand-off with Speaker Gerry Brownlee over potential ban
- Remuneration Authority says it doesn't control how MPs' housing allowances allocated
- Salvation Army warns food banks could close after government funding ends
- Labour questions whether disappearing climate briefing note deliberate cover-up
- Five Great Ride cycling trails to receive funding to install e-bike charging stations
- New law allowing automated benefit decisions to modernise welfare system, government says
- Proposed law could see government use AI to make decisions about people's benefits
- Budget 2026: Rangatahi abandoned as homelessness hits record levels - youth advocates
- Budget 2026 a washout for struggling families, advocates say
- Louise Upston 'comfortable' with rules allowing her to collect $1000 a week to live in own apartment
- Climate briefing note sent to PM's chief policy adviser, it has been revealed
- Prime Minister showing no interest in changing housing allowance for MPs
1News 6
- Parliament journos in stand-off with Speaker over possible ban
- Govt lauds new law allowing AI to make benefit decisions
- Govt lauds new law allowing AI to make benefit decisions
- Upston 'comfortable' collecting $1000 a week to live in her apartment
- Govt's Budget 2026 spending and cuts – everything we know so far
- Govt's Budget 2026 spending and cuts – everything we know so far