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politician. For other Tim Barnetts, see
Tim Barnett.
Timothy Andrew Barnett was the member of the New Zealand Parliament for Christchurch Central from 1996 to 2008,
representing the Labour Party. He was a British immigrant to New Zealand and New Zealand's second openly
gay politician.
Early
life
Born in Rugby, UK on 4 August 1958, he moved to New Zealand in 1991
with his then partner Jonathan Kirkpatrick. Educated at the London School of Economics,
graduating with a B.Sc. (Honours) in Economics (Government) in
1981. In the UK he had been the inaugural Executive Director of the
Stonewall Lobby
Group, which was the first professional lobby group set up in
that country to work for equal rights for lesbian and gay
people.
Member of
Parliament
He was elected to Parliament as the Member of
Parliament (MP) for Christchurch Central in 1996. He has been
active in many community-based organisations in New Zealand,
including the lesbian, gay and transgender (LGBT) section of the Labour Party, (Rainbow Labour)
which he helped to found in 1997, and is a supporter of UniQ, the Queer Students Association
at New Zealand universities. He was the Parliamentary promoter of
the Prostitution Law Reform
Bill, a Bill in his name, which became law in 2003 and thus
made New Zealand the first country in the world to decriminalise prostitution, and an
outspoken supporter of the Civil Union Bill, which
became law in 2004 and made New Zealand the first country outside
Europe to legislate for equal relationship status for lesbian and gay couples. He was appointed Senior Government
Whip after the 2005 election. He
was known to be very active in his local electorate chairing a
Youth Advisory Committee as well as being a regular contributor to
the St Albans Neighbourhood
News.
At the 2005 general
election, Barnett was re-elected with 52.35% of the vote and a
majority of 6,694. He retired at the 2008 General
Election.
After
Parliament
Barnett was appointed as the Global Programmes Manager for the
World AIDS Campaign in February 2009 and is based in Capetown,
South Africa.
Further
reading
-
- Access to justice: rhetoric
or reality [Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference
(2004: Wellington, NZ)], Wellington, [N.Z.]: Law Commission,
2004
- Barnett's contribution is a paper entitled: "Law
reform and politicians."
-
- Human rights and New Zealand
law: proceedings of the Centre for Peace Studies seminar, 18
September 1999 [Occasional paper (University of Auckland.
Centre for Peace Studies); no. 8.], Auckland, [N.Z.]: Centre
for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, 1999
- Barnett's contribution is a paper entitled: "Human
rights and New Zealand law."
-
- Barnett, Tim
(1996), Aroha poha tikanga: volunteering in
Aotearoa/New Zealand: produced for the Community Employment Group
of the Department of Labour, Christchurch, [N.Z.]:
The Group
-
- Barnett, Tim
(1996), Volunteer centres in Aotearoa/New Zealand /
produced for the Community Employment Group of the Department of
Labour, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: The Group
-
- Barnett, Tim
(2001), Report by the New Zealand delegate to the Ninth
Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum held in Valparaiso, Chile 14-19 January 2001 [New Zealand.
Delegation (Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (9th: 2001:
Valparaíso, Chile)), Wellington, [N.Z.]: House of
Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim
(chair) (2000), Inquiry into matters relating to the
visit of the president of China
to New Zealand in 1999: report of the Justice and Electoral
Committee, Wellington, [N.Z.]: House of
Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim
(chair) (2001), Inquiry into the 1999 general
election: report of the Justice and Electoral
Committee, Wellington, [N.Z.]: House of
Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim
(chair) (2001), Transcripts of evidence heard in the
course of an inquiry into matters relating to the visit of the
president of China to New
Zealand in 1999 : special report of the Justice and Electoral
Committee, Wellington, [N.Z.]: House of
Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim
(chair) (2004), Inquiry into the 2002 general
election: report of the Justice and Electoral
Committee, Wellington, [N.Z.]: House of
Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim
(chair) (2005), Inquiry into the 2004 Local Authority
elections: report of the Justice and Electoral
Committee, Wellington, [N.Z.]: House of
Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim
(chair) (2005), Visit to Australia 22 to 26 May 2005: report of the
Justice and Electoral Committee, Wellington, [N.Z.]:
House of Representatives
-
- Barnett, Tim (writer); Hughes,
Tony; Hague, Kevin (eds.) (1992), The case against
discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in the New Zealand
Police Force: a report , Auckland, [N.Z.]: New
Zealand AIDS
Foundation
-
- Derby, Mark;
Howie, Glen (photographer) (2002), Good work and no
pay: ten years of volunteering in Wellington, Wellington,
[N.Z.]: Steele Roberts, ISBN
1-877-22825-7
- Barnett is one of eighteen people profiled in this
volume.
-
- Kerr, Jacqueline; Weitkunat,
Rolf; Moretti, Manuel (eds.) (2005), ABC of behaviour
change: a guide to successful disease prevention and health
promotion, Edinburgh, [Scotland]: Elsevier Churchill
Livingstone, ISBN
0-443-07428-3
- Barnett's contribution is a paper entitled: "Political
and legal environments."
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