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Research run #212 · 10 Jun 2026
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Dan Rosewarne is a New Zealand Labour Party list Member of Parliament [27][28], who entered Parliament in 2022 [19].

Before entering politics, Rosewarne served in the New Zealand Defence Force [8], having begun his military career as a mechanic in the New Zealand Army [5]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he also served as a soldier with deployments to Afghanistan and the Solomon Islands [11]. He is also reported to have held officer rank within the New Zealand Defence Force [4][6], though these details are drawn from single secondary sources.

Rosewarne studied at Victoria University of Wellington [14] and attended the New Zealand Defence Force Advanced Command and Staff College [13]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he holds a Master of Strategic Studies [1].

He stood as the Labour candidate for the Waimakariri electorate in 2020 [16] and again in 2023 [15], and according to a single reputable secondary source, is a candidate for Waimakariri in 2026 [23]. He has been a member of the Labour Party throughout his parliamentary career [27][28].

Rosewarne has served as a confirmed Member of Parliament since 2022 [19]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he was sworn in as a list MP on 24 March 2026 following the resignation of Hon Peeni Henare [25].

Generated 16 Jun 2026 · model claude-sonnet-4-6
AI-generated biography. Assembled by an LLM from public sources (Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive, Parliament register, news archives). Every claim is backed by a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources below and tagged confirmed, unverified, or disputed based on corroboration. Use as a starting reference, not a final source — cross-check anything load-bearing.
7 confirmed 21 unverified 0 disputed
Verify the bio — expand the citation index 28 sourced claims

Education

Career

Political offices

  • [19]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (from 2022).
  • [15]
    Held the office of Labour Party candidate for Waimakariri (from 2023). unverified
  • [16]
    Held the office of Labour candidate for Waimakariri (from 2020). unverified
  • [18]
    Held the office of List MP (from 2022). unverified
  • [18]
    Held the office of List MP. unverified
  • [20]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (Labour Party list) (from March 2026). unverified
  • [21]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (List MP) under Labour (from 2022). unverified
  • [22]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (list MP). unverified
  • [23]
    Held the office of candidate for Waimakariri (from 2026). unverified
  • [24]
    Held the office of list MP (sworn in following resignation of Hon Peeni Henare) (from 24 March 2026). unverified
  • [25]
    Held the office of list MP (sworn into Parliament following resignation of Hon Peeni Henare) (from 24 March 2026). unverified
  • [26]
    Held the office of list Member of Parliament. unverified

Party affiliation

Looked for, not found

  • No pecuniary interests or directorships recorded in Alitheia's local data for Dan Rosewarne.
  • Specific rank details and precise dates of NZDF deployments (Afghanistan, Solomon Islands) not confirmed through a verbatim-extractable source.

The researcher checked for these topics across the allowed public sources but could not find verbatim-quotable evidence. Absence here doesn't rule the fact out — it just means no journalist-accessible source covered it at the time of the run.

01 Positions

03 Pecuniary interests Methodology →

None recorded.

04 Directorships Methodology →

None recorded.

08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →

No meetings recorded.

09 Recent Hansard speeches

12 In the news Methodology →

21 articles

Coverage from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff that mentions this person. Click any source to expand. Article body markdown is captured separately and used for AI summarisation downstream.

RNZ 7
Otago Daily Times 6
1News 4
Stuff 2
Newsroom 1
The Spinoff 1

13 Commentary topics Methodology →

2 topics · 12 weeks

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