Private Life
Banks lives in Remuera, with his wife Amanda Medcalf who he married in December 1987. They adopted three children from a Saint Petersburg orphanage in 1995, a girl and two boys. He holds a private pilot's licence, for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
Banks presently has a number business interests, including the healthfoods sector, is also a director of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd, a Kiwisaver provider, and a trans-Tasman business consultancy called "Sugar international".
In addition to his pilot's license, Banks also is an avid motorcar and motorcycle enthusiast, owning and regularly riding a Harley Davidson motorbike.
He was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to local body affairs.
Banks has stated that he believes the first chapters of the Book of Genesis, describing the creation of the world in six days, are literally true.
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