Roger Douglas
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The Honourable Sir Roger Douglas |
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Douglas in 2008
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| 35th Minister of Finance | |
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In office 26 July 1984 – 14 December 1988 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lange |
| Preceded by | Rob Muldoon |
| Succeeded by | David Caygill |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Manurewa |
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In office 1978 – 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Merv Wellington |
| Succeeded by | George Hawkins |
| 1st Leader of ACT New Zealand | |
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In office 1994–1996 |
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| Succeeded by | Richard Prebble |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for ACT Party List |
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In office 2008 – 2011 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 December 1937 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Political party |
Labour (1969–1990) ACT (1993 – present) |
| Relations |
Bill Anderton (grandfather) Norman Douglas (father) Malcolm Douglas (brother) |
| Profession | Accountant |
Sir Roger Owen Douglas (born 5 December 1937) is a retired New Zealand politician who served as a minister in two Labour governments. He is best known for his prominent role in the radical economic restructuring of the 1980s, when the Fourth Labour Government's economic policy became known as Rogernomics. In 1993, Douglas and Derek Quigley founded the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (the forerunner of the ACT New Zealand Party). He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1990 and returned to Parliament as an ACT backbencher in 2008 before retiring in 2011.
Douglas was born on 5 December 1937. His family had strong ties with the trade-union movement, and actively engaged in politics. His grandfather, William Theophilus "Bill" Anderton, (1891–1966), was a left-wing Methodist lay preacher and small business owner in Birmingham, England, who migrated to New Zealand with his wife in 1921. Anderton served as MP for Eden from 1935–1946, then as MP for Auckland Central from 1946–1960. He was Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1957–1960 Second Labour Government, establishing the Arts Council. Roger Douglas's father, Norman Vazey Douglas, (1910–1985), a former trade union secretary, served as MP for Auckland Central from 1960–1975, and as opposition spokesman for labour, education, and social security from 1967–1972. Roger's brother Malcolm Douglas was briefly Labour MP for Hunua 1978–1979.
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