Barry Brill
Barry Edward Brill (born 1940) is a New Zealand politician and a lawyer. Brill was a cabinet minister in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981.
[edit] Member of Parliament
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| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1975–1978 | 38th | Kapiti | National | |
| 1978–1981 | 39th | Kapiti | National | |
Brill was a member of the National Party. He represented the electorate of Kapiti in Parliament from 1975 to 1981, when he was defeated by Margaret Shields. He was Minister of Energy and Minister of Science and Technology in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981.
[edit] Later years
Brill was national president of the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation 1988-91, and of the Electricity Supply Association in 1993-4. He was president of the Employers & Manufacturer Association (Northern) in 1998-2001 and founding Vice-President of Business New Zealand in 2002-4. In 1997, he was awarded an OBE for services to manufacturing. More recently, Brill has been active in publicly opposing scientific authorities' views on global warming.[1][2] Since 2009, he has been Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
Brill stood for ACT New Zealand in Northland in the 2011 general election.[3]
[edit] References
- New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
- The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland) ISBN 0474001776
- ^ Brill, Barry (15 May 2010). "Crisis in New Zealand climatology". Quadrant Online. http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/05/crisis-in-new-zealand-climatology.
- ^ Brill, Barry (2 November 2011). "Do we need to be world leaders if it means bankruptcy?". New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10591863.
- ^ Laking, George (17 November 2011). "Epsom and climate change". New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10766457.
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