Challenging The Status Quo
$39.99
- Paperback
372 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2024
Summary
‘Next Tuesday we’re going to elect a new deputy leader and it’s not going to be you,’ said Prime Minister Robert Muldoon to his Associate Minister of Finance, Derek Quigley, late one evening in February 1981, shortly after Quigley had co-led the abortive Colonels’ Coup that sought to topple the PM.
A farmer and lawyer, Derek Quigley had entered Parliament just five years earlier as National MP for Rangiora. After his falling out with Muldoon he was an advisor to the Lange/Douglas Labo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776922208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776922204 |
| Author: | Derek Quigley |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 372 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 710g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
Derek Quigley
Born in North Canterbury in 1932, Derek Quigley gained a scholarship for young farmers from the Meat and Wool Boards to study farming in Britain and the United States, before completing a law degree while farming and practising as a lawyer in Christchurch. He entered Parliament as National MP for Rangiora in 1975, and was a Cabinet minister in the Muldoon National government, an advisor to the Lange/Douglas Labour government, and founder with Roger Douglas of the ACT Party. After a further term in Parliament in 1996-99, he has worked as a consultant, and as a visiting fellow at ANU’s Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, and now lives in Madrid.
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