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	The New Zealand Government Directory, Wellington, New Zealand. Network Communications (NZ) Limited – 2003-2007 editions.

	New Zealand Parliament biography of Don Brash (archived biographies of former MPs and Ministers of the Crown) - http://www.parliament.govt.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/Former/8/8/d/48PlibMPsFormerDonBrash (accessed 12/01/2009 and 4/04/2012)

	New Zealand National Party biography of Don Brash (archived biographies of former MPs) - http://www.national.org.nz/files/DonBrashBio.pdf (accessed 12/01/2009)

	Don Brash website (career information, speeches) - http://www.donbrash.com (accessed 4/04/2012)

	Wikipedia biography of Don Brash, 2008 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Brash (accessed 12/01/2009)

	Wikipedia biograpy of Don Brash, 2012 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Brash (accessed 4/04/2012)

	 
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	Dr Don Brash was born in September 1940.  Prior to his parliamentary career he gained a PHD in Economics at Australian National University in 1966, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Canterbury in 1999.  From 1966 to 2002 he held various senior roles in the economic sector.  These included working as an economist with the World Bank in Washington from 1966-1971, and in New Zealand as chair of the Economic Monitoring Group from 1978-1980.  He also sat on the advisory panel on Goods and Services Tax in 1985, and chaired four subsequent consultative committees on taxation reform on behalf of the New Zealand Government.  He held the position of Governor of the Reserve Bank from 1988-2002, and won the NZIER-Quantas Economics Award for his work at the Reserve Bank in 1999.

	Dr Brash stood unsuccessfully as the National Party candidate for the East Coast Bays electorate at a 1980 by-election, and again at the 1981 general election.  His involvement in politics began following the 2002 general election when he was elected to Parliament as a National List MP, highly placed at fifth on the Party list.  He remained in Parliament until 2007.  During this time the National Party was in Opposition, and Dr Brash held a number of spokesperson roles on the National front bench as well as other responsibilities:

	

		Opposition Spokesperson on Finance, 15 August 2002 - 9 August 2004
	

		Opposition Spokesperson on the Security Intelligence Service, 2003-2006
	

		Member, Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, 27 August 2002 - 4 November 2003


	Following a public leadership challenge, Dr Brash became parliamentary Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing previous incumbent Hon. Bill English.  Dr Brash held this role from 28 October 2003 to 27 November 2006, with first Hon. Nick Smith and subsequently Gerry Brownlee appointed as Deputy Leader of the National Party.  Dr Brash initially retained his role as National's finance spokesperson, but appointed new MP John Key as his deputy and eventually passed this responsibility to him following a Caucus reshuffle in August 2004.

	On 5 November 2003, Dr Brash outlined his five main policy priorities for the National Party.  These included reversing the decline of New Zealand living standards; moving away from a perceived drift towards racial separatism; improving the quality of the education system; decreasing dependency on the welfare system; and ensuring the security of New Zealanders, including domestic law-and-order and external defence policy.  Some of these policies were later highlighted in two addresses given by Dr Brash at the Orewa Rotary Club, on 27 January 2004 and 25 January 2005, commonly known as the Orewa speeches.  In the first, he expressed opposition to perceived Maori racial separatism in New Zealand; in the second, given on 25 January 2005, he focused upon the fiscal and social costs of entrenched welfare dependency.  In particular, the earlier speech and later related public statements received significant attention, both in traditional and online media.

	Under Dr Brash's leadership the National Party initially made significant gains in the political polls.  At the 2005 general election final results placed National two seats behind the incumbent Labour Party.  National was unable to secure a majority from minor parties to form a governing coalition.  At the time, this was the National Party's best result under the post-1993 MMP (Mixed Member Proportional Representation) electoral system.

	On 23 November 2006, following increasing Caucus support for John Key, Dr Brash announced his resignation as the National Party leader, effective from 27 November.  New leader John Key declined to offer Dr Brash a senior Opposition portfolio, and on 30 November 2006 he resigned from Parliament with a formal resignation date of 5 February 2007.  He was replaced as a National Party List MP by Katrina Shanks.

	On 30 April 2011 Dr Brash was appointed the leader outside Parliament of the ACT New Zealand Party, after his public bid for its leadership was accepted and he was confirmed as leader by the ACT Caucus and Board.  This involved the incumbent, Hon. Rodney Hide, stepping down from his leadership role within Parliament, which occurred on 28 April 2011.  Dr Brash ran for Parliament as a list MP alongside Hon. John Banks, who stood as candidate for the Epsom electorate.  Mr Banks was successful in his campaign, however the ACT Party gained insufficient votes to bring further MPs to Parliament.  Dr Brash subsequently resigned as leader on 26 November 2011, and was replaced by Mr Banks.
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