Member of the New Zealand Parliament for ACT Party List
In office 8 November 2008 – 26 November 2011
Personal details
Born
(1937-12-05) 5 December 1937 (age 86) Auckland, New Zealand
Political party
ACT (1993–present) Labour (until 1990)
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 became best known for his prominent role in New Zealand's radical economic restructuring in the 1980s, when the Fourth Labour Government's economic policy became known as "Rogernomics".
Douglas served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1990. During his time as Minister of Finance (1984 to 1988), the government floated the New Zealand dollar, introduced corporate practices to state services, sold off state assets, and removed a swathe of regulations and subsidies. Some Labour Party supporters regarded Douglas's economic policies as a betrayal of Labour's left-wing policy-platform, and the moves became deeply unpopular with the public and with ordinary party members. His supporters defended the reforms as necessary to revive the economy, which had been tightly regulated under National's Muldoon (Minister of Finance from 1975 to 1984). As a result of his flat tax proposal, Douglas came into conflict with Prime Minister David Lange, and he eventually resigned as Finance Minister; when Douglas was re-elected to Cabinet in 1989 Lange himself resigned as Prime Minister, signalling the demise of the Labour government.
In 1993 Douglas and Derek Quigley founded the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (the forerunner of the ACT New Zealand party) as a means to further his policy ideas. Douglas returned to Parliament as an ACT backbencher in 2008 before retiring in 2011.
Sir Roger Owen Douglas (born 5 December 1937) is a retired New Zealand politician who served as a minister in two Labour governments. He became best known...
Labour Party MP RogerDouglas, a figure of the New Right who served as minister of finance under the Fourth Labour Government. Douglas' neoliberal economic...
Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under RogerDouglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. Prebble was born in...
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the same general area, and Moyle moved his candidacy there, allowing RogerDouglas to take over Manukau. Moyle was elected for Mangere in the 1969 election...
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was known as Rogernomics after the Labour Party Minister of Finance, RogerDouglas, so the second period became known as "Ruthanasia", after the National...
(2001). Michael Douglas: Out of the Shadows : the Unauthorised Biography. Robson. ISBN 978-1-86105-347-3. Ebert, Roger (1997). Roger Ebert's Video Companion...
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David Lange became Prime Minister and RogerDouglas became Minister of Finance. The economic program outlined by Douglas was deeply unpopular with Labour's...
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economic reforms became known as "Rogernomics", after Finance Minister RogerDouglas. According to one political scientist: Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand...
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November 1979 Lange, after encouragement from parliamentary friends RogerDouglas and Michael Bassett, challenged Bob Tizard for the deputy leadership...
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acting skills at New York's High School of Performing Arts and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before pursuing higher education at...
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