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Phil Twyford
Te Atatū
· Labour Party
Pecuniary interests
6 items
Directorships
1 declared
Recent meetings
0 logged
01 Positions
03 Pecuniary interests (2025) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:25Beneficial interests in, and trusteeships of, trusts
Twyford and Easingwood Family Trust (trustee and beneficiary)
— Twyford and Easingwood Family Trust
(Trustee)
Overseas travel costs
Germany – Conference of social democratic parties. Contributor to travel and accommodation: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
— Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Malaysia – Political workshop. Contributor to travel and accommodation: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
— Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Tϋrkiye – Parliamentarians' conference on Palestine. Contributor to travel and accommodation: The League of Parliamentarians for al-Quds.
— The League of Parliamentarians for al-Quds
Real property
Family home (owned by family trust) – Te Atatū Peninsula
Retirement schemes
Fisher Funds TWO KiwiSaver
— Fisher Funds TWO KiwiSaver
04 Directorships Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:25None recorded.
06 Trusteeships & beneficial trust interests
- active
08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →
No meetings recorded.
09 Recent Hansard speeches
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12 In the news Methodology →
50 articlesCoverage 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 24
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2026-10-15Both Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon held rallies at different ends of the country last night, with supporters for both out in full force.
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2026-10-09Young people in Auckland’s new Henderson electorate say more needs to be done to encourage them that their vote matters.
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2026-09-17Daughter of man who died in Waikato Hospital's ED among members of the public speaking out for World Patient Safety Day.
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2026-09-11At the annual Immigration Conference, New Zealand First's Winston Peters launched more than a dozen proposals - almost all of which restricted migration.
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2026-09-11With ACT and New Zealand First pitching tighter controls on immigration, National, Labour and the Greens are warning against populist anti-immigration policies.
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2026-09-11The party, announcing its own policy on Friday, said it would double the time needed for permanent residence and open up citizenship paths.
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2026-09-10New Zealand First has unveiled a policy which includes offering a reprieve for Pacific Island visa overstayers.
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2026-09-10Part of the reforms put forward include a referendum on enacting an annual cap of 20,000 resident visas issued each year.
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2026-09-02The saga over a cancelled $35 million IT project concluded in Parliament this week, with a debate on the Privileges Committee's report finding of contempt.
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2026-09-01Labour MP Phil Twyford said the finding of the Privileges Committee must not be treated as "business as usual".
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2026-08-21Anti-immigrant rhetoric has been part of the country's election cycles in various degrees over the past 50 years.
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2026-08-07The Department's Director of Charities Services said allegations of serious wrongdoing were being considered.
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2026-08-06Erica Stanford appears to have been told two markedly different stories.
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2026-07-31This week, a clutch of MPs discussed topics raised in recent petitions. Their choices and angles were interesting.
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2026-07-29The legislation means annual and sick leave will now be accrued in hours, rather than days.
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2026-07-28"In hindsight, we should have taken a different approach," Nic Blakeley said over the cancelled IT project.
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2026-06-24Parliament, as well as ministers, may have been kept in the dark over an IT project. Those are separate issues and will receive separate investigations.
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2026-06-24Speaker Gerry Brownlee said failing to tell MPs that a $35m IT project had been axed could amount to a contempt of Parliament.
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2026-06-23The Greens' immigration spokesperson says ministers and MPs were "kept in the dark" over the matter, and has questioned what would have happened if the project had continued ahead.
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2026-06-22Unbeknownst to MPs, the project had been abandoned months earlier.
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2026-06-08Labour has named 30 newcomers on its list as it heads into the campaign.
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2026-06-07Labour has named 30 newcomers on its list as it heads into the campaign.
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2026-06-05Budget sets aside $18 million over the next four years for frontline teams to respond to migrant exploitation and immigration non-compliance.
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2026-05-26People and businesses asking for fast track approval of their projects have donated almost exclusively to National and NZ First.
Stuff 10
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2026-10-19There are 23 Auckland electorates in play, 21 general and two Māori, with some expected to be close.
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2026-09-05Despite turning her life around and working with recovering addicts, Melanie Rauth was forced to leave NZ despite living here for 16 years
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2026-09-01Labour MP Phil Twyford says the finding of the Privileges Committee must not be treated as “business as usual”.
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2026-08-25The Privileges Committee has found top MBIE officials deliberately misled Parliament when answering questions about the failed Immigration Capability Biometric Upgrade project in March.
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2026-06-25Had this issue come to light this time last year, then a prison sentence could have been a possibility for the MBIE officials accused of misleading MPs.
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2026-06-24Speaker Gerry Brownlee said failing to tell MPs that a $435m IT project had been axed could amount to a contempt of Parliament.
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2026-06-23Labour MP Phil Twyford has revealed that officials mislead the education and workforce select committee earlier this year.
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2026-06-08His arrival in politics had triggered debate after Police Commissioner Richard Chambers expressed “disappointment” over how he had been informed.
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2026-06-08Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has expressed disappointment that one of his top cops didn’t tell him he was going to stand for Labour and says its “untenable” for him to continue in his current role.
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2026-06-07He compared Labour’s selection process to the secretive Vatican conclave that elects popes.
1News 7
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2026-09-17Tayla Horsburgh spoke at a political debate about how her family's "whole world was flipped upside down".
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2026-09-17Advocates Malcolm Mulholland and Gareth Hall speak to Breakfast following a debate featuring affected families and politicians last night.
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2026-07-28Health Minister Simeon Brown says a staged approach has always been the plan.
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2026-06-30The Anti-Social Road Use Legislation Amendment Bill is expected to pass into law tonight, increasing fines for excessive noise from or within a vehicle.
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2026-06-23An inquiry will establish the facts and make findings about the integrity of MBIE's conduct, including whether officials may have misled ministers.
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2026-06-22The inquiry will establish the facts and make findings about the integrity of MBIE's conduct, including whether officials may have misled ministers.
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2026-06-07Barbara Edmonds has jumped 15 places to third as the party introduces a wave of new faces.
Newsroom 3
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2026-06-08One high-profile police figure vaults up Labour’s ranks as another is unceremoniously ushered into retirement The post Stability over sparkle in Labour’s candidate list as policy question looms appeared first on Newsroom .
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2026-06-07The rankings reward some of the party's emerging talent while some sitting MPs have slipped down the list, facing a tougher road back into Parliament The post Walters, Tangaere-Manuel and newcomers among biggest winners in new Labour list…
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2026-06-07A veteran parliamentary reporter slams the last Labour government in this excerpt from his new memoir The post Trevor Mallard’s last two words to Barry Soper (you can guess) appeared first on Newsroom .
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2026-06-24Speaker Gerry Brownlee. Photo: VNP/Phil Smith Parliament's Speaker has referred a question of whether Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment officials misled Parliament to the Privileges Committee.
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2026-06-22MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley, and the now retired head of INZ Alison McDonald, at select committee in March. Photo: Screenshot / New Zealand Parliament By Gill Bonnett of RNZ
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2026-06-07By Russell Palmer of RNZ Labour has unveiled its list for the November election with 30 newcomers.
The Spinoff 2
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2026-08-08On current polling, National could lose a bunch of MPs come November 7. With its election lineup now confirmed, who’s a shoo-in, who’s a maybe and who’s at risk? Friday’s Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll gave the coalition a slim lead over the…
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2026-07-29With new, stricter voting laws this election, Pacific-majority electorates with young populations are most at risk. The day after the 2023 election, I analysed the results for Pacific-majority electorates Māngere and Panmure-Ōtāhuhu and…
NZ Herald 1
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2026-08-06Immigration Minister Erica Stanford. Photo / RNZ, Samuel Rillstone
12.5 Heard on radio
4 segmentsVerbatim segments from podcasts and radio where this person was the speaker, attributed via the voice-reference library. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the segment starts. Transcriptions are automated and attributions are manually reviewed, but cannot be guaranteed to be absolutely accurate — the seek point or speaker label may occasionally drift; the linked episode is the source of truth.
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We are disappointed. The public service commissioner did not undertake a formal process and has already announced that Mr. Blakeley will remain in his position. We think this was the …
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In fact, he said that uh Nick Blakely should continue in this role. Yeah, and that his version of accountability is that Mick Blake should kind of clean up the …
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Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB) Phil Twyford: Labour MP explains why he believes Nic Blakely should lose CEO role at MBIE 2026-09-01 · 9s
So um that's a that's kind of another issue. But this is such an important issue, um Heather.
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Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB) Phil Twyford: Labour MP explains why he believes Nic Blakely should lose CEO role at MBIE 2026-09-01 · 11s
In fact, he said that uh Nick Blakely should continue in this role. And that his version of accountability is that Blakely should kind of clean up the mess. We …
13 Commentary topics Methodology →
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