Mentions of Maxim Institute in New Zealand Parliament debates
Maxim Institute has been mentioned in 14 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Regulatory Standards Bill
First Reading 5 Jul 2011
CLARE CURRAN ... Now we have it back. The New Zealand Herald has described the bill as ill-considered, the Maxim Institute calls it a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and Treasury itself, in the regulatory impact statement, says it believes it ...
RAYMOND HUO ... as high, and the potential to reduce costs as very limited. No wonder Alex Penk, policy and research manager at the Maxim Institute, described the bill as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Labour opposes this bill. I have five main reasons for opposing ...
Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill
Third Reading 25 May 2010
DAVID CLENDON ... and damning objection to this very poorly drafted and poorly conceived legislation I have heard was at a Maxim Institute event in Auckland recently. Two gentlemen, Professor Warren Brookbanks and Dr Richard Ekins, of the faculty of law at ...
Judicature (High Court Rules) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 11 Sep 2008
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... was reminded of the comments that Professor Jeremy Waldron recently made at the inaugural John Graham Lecture at the Maxim Institute. Dr Waldron is an American academic, although a New Zealander by birth, and he spoke about a number of aspects of our ...
Electoral Finance Bill, Broadcasting Amendment Bill (No 3), Electoral Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 18 Dec 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... Party accepted the support of and colluded with the Exclusive Brethren. It behaved in a similar fashion with the Maxim Institute, with the so-called Fair Tax lobby, and with extremely wealthy members of the Auckland business community. By ...
Electoral Finance Bill
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... supporters funded the biography of their leader Don Brash, which just happened to come out in election year. The Maxim Institute spent large sums on pro-National publicity, and so on, and so on. All of this was on top of the anonymous donations ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... the effective amount of money available to the National Party, which was doubled again through collusion with the Maxim Institute, the so-called Fair Tax lobby, and through donations from the very wealthy, which were laundered through secret ....
General Debate 14 Nov 2007
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Exclusive Brethren. Yeah, right! It fought vigorously against the rather well-heeled and subtle pseudo-thinktank, the Maxim Institute. Yeah, right! It might come as a newsflash to the Opposition, but the reason the Labour Government has won three ...
Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 24 Oct 2007
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... of words said. It was described best, perhaps, by one of the submitters to the Justice and Electoral Committee, the Maxim Institute, which was reported to be the lone voice in support of sedition laws. On 16 August a person from the Maxim Institute ...
In Committee 23 Oct 2007
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... member opposite has described as weak—and I think he is right. They were the submissions of Brian Anderton and the Maxim Institute. It just goes to show that Mr Finlayson can get it right on occasion. Mr Anderton submitted that the sedition ...
General Debate 12 Sep 2007
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... this problem. Quite obviously, they intend, as they did in the last election, that some of the money will go to the Maxim Institute. How much will National spend towards the end of this year? The Brethren are a little bit out of favour, so National ...
Justice
Electoral Act—Electoral Period 12 Sep 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... votes for National”. Another example that I think Mr English is personally well familiar with is the case of the Maxim Institute. The Maxim Institute, while purporting to be non-partisan, expended a large part of its $1 million budget coordinating ...
Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill
Second Reading 5 Dec 2006
DARREN HUGHES ... an amendment around spam that links to other websites. I was interested in the role that the so-called non-partisan Maxim Institute played in emails to the National Party. The institute gave website links to its organisation, showing very clearly who ...
DARREN HUGHES ... the unsolicited electronic messages going between National and the Exclusive Brethren, the racing industry, and the Maxim Institute. And, of course, there were the wonderfully rich emails—about which I have run out of time to inform the House—that ...
General Debate 19 Jul 2006
SUE BRADFORD ... from special-interest groups that claim to represent Christianity such as Garnet Milne’s Reformation Testimony, the Maxim Institute, Family First, and Family Integrity. The booklet referred to in the Dominion Post this morning called is a Family ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 21 Feb 2006
ANNE TOLLEY ... card as part of Labour’s election campaign. I well recall the two campaign meetings held in my electorate by the Maxim Institute. They were excellent public meetings and very well-organised and well-attended—possibly because they focused on the ...