Member of Parliament
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party |
| 1981–1984 | 40th | St Kilda | Labour | |
| 1984–1987 | 41st | St Kilda | Labour | |
| 1987–1990 | 42nd | St Kilda | Labour | |
| 1990–1993 | 43rd | St Kilda | Labour | |
| 1993–1996 | 44th | St Kilda | Labour | |
| 1996–1999 | 45th | Dunedin South | 2 | Labour |
| 1999–2002 | 46th | List | 2 | Labour |
| 2002–2005 | 47th | List | 2 | Labour |
| 2005–2008 | 48th | List | 2 | Labour |
| 2008–2009 | 49th | List | 2 | Labour |
Cullen joined the Labour Party in 1974, and served on the party's Executive and Council between 1976 and 1981. In 1981 he was elected MP for the Dunedin electorate of St Kilda.
Read more about this topic: Michael Cullen (politician)
Famous quotes containing the words member of, member and/or parliament:
“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)