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Mar 17, 1954 Christchurch, Canterbury Region, New Zealand 70 years old
New Zealand politician
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About Peter Dunne
- Peter Francis Dunne (born 17 March 1954) is a retired New Zealand politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ohariu.
- He held the seat and its predecessors from 1984 to 2017—representing the Labour Party in Parliament from 1984 to 1994, and a succession of minor centrist parties from 1994.
- He was the Leader of Future New Zealand from 1994 to 1995, United New Zealand from 1996 to 2000, and United Future from 2000 to 2017. He served as a Cabinet minister while in the Labour Party and has since done so in governments dominated by the centre-right National Party as well as by the Labour Party.
- From 2005 to 2008 he held the posts of Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health as a minister outside of Cabinet with the Labour-led government.
- After Labour suffered an election defeat in 2008 to the National Party, United Future was reduced to having Dunne as its sole MP.
- However, in a deal between United Future and National, Dunne retained his two portfolios outside Cabinet.
- On 7 June 2013 he resigned his warrant as a minister due to a purported leak from his office.
- He effectively was an independent MP between 25 June 2013 and 13 August 2013 when United Future was temporarily deregistered.
- On 28 January 2014 Dunne was reinstated as a minister holding the Internal Affairs, Associate Health, and Associate Conservation portfolios.On 21 August 2017, Dunne announced that he would retire from politics and pulled out of campaigning for re-election at the 2017 New Zealand general election.
- United Future lost its sole seat in Parliament and attained only 0.1% of the party vote.
