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Suzanne SinclairONZM JP
Sinclair in 2020
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Titirangi
In office
6 November 1993 – 12 October 1996
Preceded byMarie Hasler
Succeeded byElectorate abolished
Member of the Auckland City Council for Avondale Ward
In office
11 October 1986 – 14 October 1995
Preceded byWard established
Succeeded byPhil Raffills
Personal details
Born (1946-05-04) 4 May 1946 (age 78)
Auckland, New Zealand
Political partyLabour
Children1
OccupationTeacher

Suzanne Mary Sinclair ONZM JP (born 4 May 1946) is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She was an MP from 1993 to 1996, representing the Titirangi electorate.

Biography

Early life and career

Sinclair was born in 1946 at Auckland. She was educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School before attending Auckland Teachers College where she attained a diploma in teaching. Subsequently, she had a career in education as a teacher, literacy tutor, and a tutor for the Hillary Commission. She had one son.

Aside from education, Sinclair worked as an employment officer at the Department of Labour, a co-ordinator of the Friends of the Zoo programme at Auckland Zoo and managed a hire plant nursery business.

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1993–1996 44th Titirangi Labour

Sinclair joined the Labour Party in 1975 and held party positions in the New Lynn electorate and Labour's Auckland Regional Council. She was also a member of Labour's New Zealand Council.

In 1980 Sinclair stood unsuccessfully for the Auckland City Council on a Labour Party ticket. She was later elected to the council after at large was abolished and replaced with a ward system. She was elected in 1986 as a councillor for the Avondale Ward. She was re-elected in 1989 and 1992 before deciding not to stand again in 1995. She was also a member of the Avondale Community Board, the Portage Licensing Trust and the Auckland Institute of Technology Council.

Sinclair was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 election as MP for Titirangi when she beat the incumbent, National's Marie Hasler. The Titirangi electorate was abolished when mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting was introduced for the 1996 election. In the 1996 election, Sinclair unsuccessfully contested the Waitakere electorate, when she was in turn beaten by Hasler. Sinclair was also a list candidate ranked at 27, but Labour did not win sufficient votes for her to remain in Parliament.

Career after politics

For some years before the Britomart Transport Centre opened in 2003, Sinclair was the head of the Britomart information centre, which was funded by Auckland City Council. She was appointed by the Minister of Transport, Mark Gosche, to the chairmanship of the Road Safety Trust in March 2001, and she stepped down from this role in December 2007. Sinclair is currently relationship manager at the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). She chairs the WALSHtrust, an organisation in West Auckland supporting people with mental health, illness, and disability issues.

Awards and recognition

In the 2020 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the community and governance. She is also a Justice of the Peace.

Notes

  1. Temple 1994, p. 83.
  2. ^ Who's Who 1993, p. 72.
  3. "Declaration of Result of Election". The New Zealand Herald. 29 October 1980. p. 9.
  4. Bassett 2013, p. 70.
  5. Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
  6. "Women in parliament 1933–2005". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  7. "Waitakere 55" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  8. "Part III - Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  9. Rudman, Brian (11 March 2002). "Rudman's city: Passenger numbers confound critics of public transport". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  10. Gosche, Mark (9 March 2001). "Road Safety Trust Chair Appointed" (Press release). Wellington: New Zealand Government. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  11. Sharp, Yvonne (2008). "Nineteenth Annual Report of the Road Safety Trust" (PDF). Road Safety Trust. pp. 1, 27. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  12. "Board Members". WALSHtrust. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  13. "New Year honours list 2020". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.

References

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded byMarie Hasler Member of Parliament for Titirangi
1993–1996 		VacantConstituency abolished, recreated in 1999Title next held byDavid Cunliffe
Political offices
New title
ward established 		Auckland City Councillor for Avondale Ward
1986–1995 		Succeeded byPhil Raffills
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