Peter Dunne

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Dunne
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1954(1954-03-17)
Age	70
Country	New Zealand
Birth City	Christchurch
Horoscope	Pisces

Peter Dunne Biography

Peter Dunne is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 17, 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dunne was born in Christchurch on the 17th of March in 1954, son of Ralph Dunne and Joan Dunne. Dunne attended St Bede’s College and gained an MA in political science at Canterbury University before studying business administration at Massey University.

The 1984 elections saw Dunne had a successful run in Parliament as a candidate for the Labour Party, winning the seat of Ohariu and defeating incumbent National Member Hugh Templeton. Bob Jones, leader of the New Zealand Party (not to be confused with New Zealand First), also ran for that seat. The seat was split by the previous National vote, allowing an eventual Labour win in this seat. Dunne kept the seat after the 1987 election after which he was elected an Undersecretary of Parliament. He was elected in 1990 as was promoted to the Minister for Regional Development, Associate Minister for the Environment as well as the Associate Minister for Justice. He was elected to his seat during the election of 1990 However, it was the Labour Party suffered defeat, and Dunne was subsequently dismissed from his ministerial post.

In the 1993 election, Dunne won the seat of Onslow, which covered much the same area as his former Ohariu seat. He found himself, however, increasingly at odds with the majority of the Labour Party – Dunne tended to support Labour’s right-leaning faction rather than the party’s more unionist wing. With the departure of leading right-wingers like Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble and David Caygill he found himself isolated. In October 1994 Dunne resigned from the Labour Party, becoming an independent MP. Soon after he rebuffed an approach by National MP Christine Fletcher to join the National Party. A short time later, he established the Future New Zealand party (not to be confused with a later party of the same name).

In 1995, a group of MPs from both Labour and National decided to band together and form a new centrist party. Dunne, who had already quit his party in a similar way, decided to join the larger group. Together, the defectors and Dunne established the United New Zealand party, with a total of seven MPs, led by Clive Matthewson. United eventually established a coalition with the National Party, with the deal seeing Dunne return to Cabinet as Minister of Internal Affairs and Inland Revenue.

Dunne has backed the decriminalisation homosexuality as it was a topic in the late 1980s and has always favored more expansive drinking laws. In an interview with the media in 2008 he said it could be time to rethink the laws governing abortion in New Zealand and let the decision be left to the woman and her doctor, on the basis of informed consent.

Peter Dunne Net Worth

Peter Dunne is one of the richest Politician from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Dunne 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Francis Dunne CNZM (born 17 March 1954) is a former New Zealand politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ohariu. He served in the seat and the predecessors from 1984 to 2017, representing the Labour Party in Parliament from 1984 until 1994, and various minor centrist parties starting in 1994. He was Leader for Future New Zealand from 1994 until 1995. Then he was the Leader of United New Zealand from 1996 until 2000 as well as United Future from 2000 to 2017.

He was married in 1976. was married to the high school teacher of chemistry Jennifer Mackrell, and they have two sons. He has a brother named John Dunne, is a radio broadcaster. The grandfather, Frank Smyth, played for the All Blacks. He was employed by the Department of Trade and Industry between 1977 and 1978, before joining the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council until 1984. He was Deputy Chief Executive of this Council until the year 1980.

In 1990, Dunne was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. In the 2018 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as a member of Parliament.

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On 17 October 2005 Dunne gave his support to a Labour-led Government, along with Winston Peters’ New Zealand First Party and Jim Anderton’s Progressive Party. Dunne’s decision to support a Labour-led Government disappointed some. During the election campaign Dunne and National Party leader Don Brash publicly sat outside an Epsom café over a cup of tea as a demonstration to the electorate that Dunne could co-operate with National. This demonstration saw the majority of National supporters in Ohariu-Belmont combine with United Future and other Dunne supporters to return Dunne with a comfortable majority. National won the party vote in his seat by 3.57% over Labour. Dunne’s party received 5.55%, while the Green Party, which Dunne had criticised heavily in the campaign, received 5.84%.

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From 2007, Dunne rebranded United Future as a centrist party, based on promoting strong families and vibrant communities. He wanted United Future to become New Zealand’s version of Britain’s Liberal Democrats. Dunne has summarised his political views in two books, Home is Where My Heart Is (2002) and In the Centre of Things (2005).