Michael Laws - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jun 26, 1957 67 years old

New Zealand politician

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About Michael Laws

  • Michael Laws (born 1957) is a politician, broadcaster and writer/columnist from New Zealand.
  • Laws has won several political positions, including two terms as a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for the National Party (1990–96) and New Zealand First (1996), two terms as Mayor of Whanganui (2004-2010), terms as a councillor on Whanganui District Council, Napier City Council, and Otago Regional Council, and terms as a member of a district health board.
  • In Parliament he voted against his party on multiple occasions and defected to the newly founded New Zealand First party, but resigned Parliament the same year following a scandal in which he selected a company part-owned by his wife for a government contract.
  • Laws currently holds one political position; he is councillor and deputy chair of Otago Regional Council.Laws has also been a media personality, working as a Radio Live morning talkback host and a longstanding The Sunday Star-Times columnist.
  • In these roles, Laws caused controversy, such as calling Governor-General Anand Satyanand a "fat Indian" and comparing him to a comically obese character from Monty Python.
  • Laws resigned all positions in 2014 to take full-time care of his youngest children, after their mother suffered a severe stroke.

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