Louise Upston
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The Honourable Louise Upston MP |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Taupō |
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Assumed office 8 November 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Mark Burton |
| Majority | 14,115 (63.65%) |
| Minister of Corrections | |
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Assumed office 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Bill English |
| Preceded by | Judith Collins |
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In office 29 January 2013 – 7 October 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Chris Tremain |
| Succeeded by | Tim Macindoe |
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| Born | 14 March 1971 |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Political party | National |
| Children | three |
| Website | www |
Louise Claire Upston MP (née McGill, born 14 March 1971) is a New Zealand politician of the National Party. She has represented the Taupō electorate in the House of Representatives since the 2008 election. In the Fifth National Government, led by Prime Minister Bill English, she is the Minister of Corrections.
Louise McGill was born in North Shore and grew up in East Coast Bays. Her parents are Ian and the late Norma McGill. The youngest of four children, she has two sisters and one brother. She attended Rangitoto College, from which she graduated in 1988, and where she was friends with Amy Adams. Since before the age of ten, she had wanted to become a member of parliament.
McGill dropped out of law school and instead founded a management consultancy firm, McGill Manning, when she was 19. Her clients included Air New Zealand, Russell McVeagh, and Datacom Group. She then studied at the Waikato Management School and graduated with a Master of Business Administration.
McGill married Craig Upston, and they have three children. The Upston family lives in Karapiro.
Upston was elected to Parliament at the 2008 general election for the Taupō electorate, where she unseated Mark Burton, a Labour cabinet minister who had represented the area for 15 years. She received attention in the media for comments made in her maiden statement to the House of Representatives, such as her slogan approach to crime: "The police are good. The criminals are bad. It's that simple."
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