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Rt Hon Gerry Brownlee
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· New Zealand National Party
Pecuniary interests
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Directorships
2 declared
Recent meetings
0 logged
01 Positions
03 Pecuniary interests (2025) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:16Beneficial interests in, and trusteeships of, trusts
AJ Brownlee Family Trust (beneficiary)
— AJ Brownlee Family Trust
(Beneficiary)
Bradnor Superannuation (trustee and beneficiary)
— Bradnor Superannuation
(Trustee)
Debts owed by you
Bank of New Zealand – mortgages (x5)
— Bank of New Zealand
Debts owed to you
Bank of New Zealand – term deposits
— Bank of New Zealand
Real property
Property – Havelock, Marlborough
Residential property (x2) – Ilam, Christchurch
Residential property – Fendalton, Christchurch
Residential property – Wellington
Retirement schemes
AXA Superannuation
— AXA Superannuation
Booster KiwiSaver
— Booster KiwiSaver
Bradnor Superannuation Scheme
— Bradnor Superannuation Scheme
04 Directorships Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:16None recorded.
06 Trusteeships & beneficial trust interests
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activeBeneficiary
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08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →
No meetings recorded.
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 19
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2026-07-13New Zealand has signed up to a statement on the 10th anniversary of the landmark ruling, saying it is legally binding and definitive.
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2026-07-11Louise Upston gives her take on her new part-time full-time job: managing the government's entire legislative programme as Leader of the House.
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2026-07-02Can a government minister, when asked how his agency achieves its targets, use the 'not my circus, not my monkeys' tactic? Tama Potaka did; the Speaker allowed it. What are the rules?
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2026-06-30Next week Parliament takes a break for the school holidays. Before then, MPs will spend long days and nights in the trenches debating a brutal roster of legislation under urgency.
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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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2026-06-19Analysis - Scrutiny Week over the past three years has aimed to rake government spending over the coals, but politics - as ever - seems to have got in the way.
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2026-06-19The economy and the fuel crisis will hang over the AGM, but the latest GDP figures have given leader Christopher Luxon cause for optimism.
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2026-06-17Speaker Gerry Brownlee says the decision on whether to vacate the Beehive may be made next term.
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2026-06-15The email exchange began with the woman raising concerns about an MP's spending and ended with Seymour saying: "Are you ready to accept you've just had a beating?"
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2026-06-15The email exchange began with the woman raising concerns about an MP's spending and ended with Seymour saying: "Are you ready to accept you've just had a beating?"
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2026-06-04The Prime Minister says New Zealand and Australia's militaries will "absolutely" be more aligned in the future, adding that the process had already started.
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2026-06-04He is considering a temporary ban of Stuff Digital from Parliament after raising concerns about some of its reporting last month.
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2026-06-04Foreign Minister Winston Peters has expressed surprise that four MPs have been banned from China for a year after visiting Taiwan in May.
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2026-05-31Budget Day is a Broadway production, with dance numbers (emphasis on numbers), undue laughter and applause, and everyone's a critic.
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2026-05-28The Defence Force's project to transform the way the army operates has made some key choices after a decade of research, design and groundwork, government papers show.
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2026-05-19After being ejected from Parliament the ACT Party leader said the Speaker was "obviously very grumpy".
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2026-05-19After being ejected from Parliament the ACT Party leader said the Speaker was "obviously very grumpy".
Stuff 13
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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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2026-06-24Welcome to Stuff's live coverage of politicians reacting to the 1News Verian Poll.
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2026-06-23Welcome to Stuff's live coverage of politicians reacting (maybe losing their s..., maybe being super chill) to the 1News Verian Poll.
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2026-06-23Welcome to Stuff's live coverage of politicians reacting (maybe losing their s..., maybe being super chill) to the 1News Verian Poll.
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2026-06-23The National Party insists it will run a “two ticks blue” campaign in every general electorate.
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2026-06-23Upston says neither she nor her office complained about the Stuff photograph that led to a threatened suspension of Stuff’s political team.
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2026-06-18Shane Jones’ travel blowout is the latest controversy highlighting the complex systems governing MPs’ pay, expenses and entitlements.
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2026-06-17In the not-too-distant future, the Speaker says the Beehive may need to be “vacated” for repairs. He is also urging politicians to agree to have Parliament sit more often.
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2026-06-15The ACT leader accused a concerned voter of “lazy thinking” after she wrote in with concerns about his minister spending $17k on airport parking.
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2026-06-14National has failed to secure a post-Budget lift in support, with a new poll revealing Christopher Luxon’s party remains locked below 30%.
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2026-06-04Stuff’s political team is facing a possible suspension from Parliament over a dispute with the Speaker over a photo taken of Social Development Minister Louise Upston.
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2026-05-31I don’t think he agreed with a single thing I said. But I don’t think I’ve ever had someone listen so sincerely, writes Verity Johnson.
The Spinoff 7
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2026-07-09Mike Munro’s parliamentary career spans gallery journalist in the time of Muldoon and Lange, spin doctor to Helen Clark and chief of staff for Jacinda Ardern. Mike Munro landed in the New Zealand parliamentary press gallery in 1984, as…
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2026-07-03Gerry Brownlee warned MPs this week to keep their amendments to a minimum. If only the same advice could be applied to ministers adding bills to the order paper. By the time you’re reading this article, in a distant future where the…
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2026-06-22Can we fix it? Yes, we can! Parliament’s speaker revealed last week that the ageing Beehive may need to be vacated for up to 18 months for repairs and upgrades. The Spinoff obtained emails* that reveal party leaders have bombarded Gerry…
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2026-06-18‘I’ve made many mistakes… It’s sort of hard to distinguish one from another.’ There’s something disarming about Paul Goldsmith. It’s in the way the minister for everything (justice, public service, treaty negotiations, arts and culture…
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2026-05-28The post-budget debate had as many pop culture references as policy arguments. Joel MacManus was there for each of the seven speeches. Nicola Willis The finance minister is the star of budget day and gets the first speech in the…
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2026-05-27We’ve all misplaced something at work. But if your office is a ministerial one, you might expect a bit more urgency in finding out where it went. You’d think the people preaching the loudest about getting their books in order would at…
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2026-05-26From new rentals to redevelopments, some coalition MPs have been upping their ownership of residential properties. MPs from National, New Zealand First and Act have purchased or built at least 25 new rentals, investment properties or…
Otago Daily Times 5
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2026-06-17The Beehive. Photo: RNZ By Giles Dexter of RNZ The Beehive could be vacated for refurbishments, with Parliament's Speaker saying a decision on repairs to the executive wing would probably be made in the next Parliamentary term.
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2026-06-15David Seymour. Photo: RNZ Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has apologised to a woman after he emailed her saying: "Are you ready to accept you've just had a beating?"
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2026-05-29Southland National MP Joseph Mooney. PHOTO: ODT FILES Not many politicians volunteer to become involved in a looming scandal, but Southland National MP Joseph Mooney was positively champing at the bit this week to be embroiled in the row…
1News 5
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2026-07-01"We don't think the evidence works where someone shows up for one day and moves on," Christopher Luxon said in Parliament.
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2026-06-20Andrew Bayly told 1News at National's conference in Wellington it was "no big deal", having already ruled himself out of standing again in Port Waikato.
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2026-06-19The economy and the fuel crisis will hang over the AGM, but the latest GDP figures have given leader Christopher Luxon cause for optimism.
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2026-06-04Brownlee is set to make a ruling on Stuff Digital's access to the Parliamentary precinct after raising concerns about some of its reporting last month.
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2026-05-19ACT Party leader David Seymour has been booted from the House this afternoon, after calling out Speaker Gerry Brownlee's treatment of his colleague.
Newsroom 1
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2026-06-01Speaker criticises ’pretty nasty’ blockade of island nation amid power and water shortages.
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Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB) Gerry Brownlee: Speaker of the House says China banning NZ MP's is 'disappointing' 2026-06-04 · 30s
Well, that's that would be up to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Foreign Affairs uh uh Winston Peter Rod on Winston Peters. I think he's indicated …
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Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB) Gerry Brownlee: Speaker of the House says China banning NZ MP's is 'disappointing' 2026-06-04 · 35s
And I think the relationship between our two countries is quite strong. Um and so this is just one of those little uh glitches you get. Um, and as I …
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