Nathan Guy is the MP for Otaki and has been the Minister of Internal Affairs since June 2009. He is also Associate Minister of Justice, Associate Minister of Transport and the Minister responsible for the National Library and Archives New Zealand.
Nathan entered Parliament as a List MP in 2005 and was elected National's Junior Whip in 2006. A highlight of his first Parliamentary term was to attend the Young Leaders Summit in Seoul, South Korea. He was promoted to Senior Whip in early 2008 and retained this position following the 2008 general election when he won the Otaki seat incorporating the Kapiti and Horowhenua Districts.
Before entering Parliament, Nathan was involved in farming and local government. He served for eight years on the Horowhenua District Council and managed the family dairy farm. In 2000 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study beef exports to the United States.
He is married to Erica and has three children.
Top 5 Issues
- Building a stronger economy
• Balance the books sooner.
• Borrow less so we can have lower interest rates for longer.
• Keep personal taxes lower to encourage hard work.
• Make New Zealand more competitive so our exporters can sell more overseas and create more real jobs.
• Encourage savings and investments.
• Use the mixed-Ownership model to fund infrastructure to help us grow faster.
• Invest in skills training and tertiary education that gets results. - Building world-class infrastructure
• Ultra-fast broadband for greater innovation.
• More, and better, roads to ease congestion.
• Investing in more rail and public transport. - Building a safer New Zealand
• Staying strong on crime – tougher sentencing, stronger bail laws, and a focus on victims.
• Keep working to lower the crime rate further so our families are safer.
• Making our roads safer, so we can keep the road toll lower. - Rebuilding Christchurch
• $5.5 billion recovery fund
• Re-establishing essential infrastructure
• More construction-related training - Building better public services
• Better Schools – identifying and helping children falling behind, school reports in plain English.
• World-class healthcare –more doctors and nurses, more operations, shorter waiting times.
• Effective welfare- more people back into work, more incentives to work, payment cards for teens on benefits.
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