Member of Parliament
He was MP for the seat of Eastern Hutt from the 1990 election until the 1996 elections, when the electorate boundaries were changed and it became Rimutaka. He won Rimutaka in 1996 and held the seat until the 2008 election, which he did not contest, retiring from politics.
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