Petition
of Lynley Jane Hood and Don Brash and 807 others
August 28, 2003
Attachment 1
Notes on 177 signatories to the petition
Notes
on a sample of signatories to the petition calling for a Royal Commission of
Inquiry into the Christchurch Civic Creche case
1. ASSOC.
PROF. JAMES ALLAN
specialises in constitutional law and the philosophy of law at the University of Otago.
2. Agricultural consultant DR JOCK ALLISON was Regional Director
Agricultural Research for the Southern South Island
(1978-1986) and a director of AgResearch (1992-1999).
3. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
specialist DR TONY BAIRD is a
former chair of the Medical Council of NZ (1996-2002), and current chair of
the NZ Medical Association Ethics Committee.
4. Local body politician ERIN BAKER won eight world triathlon
titles during her sporting career.
5. Gisborne cartoonist MURRAY BALL created the 'Footrot
Flats' comic strip.
6. JUDITH
BARAGWANATH is an
Auckland
writer.
7. DR
GEORGE BARTON QC
is a Wellington
barrister.
8. JUDITH
BASSETT is a
local body politician and senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland.
9. Historian HON. DR MICHAEL BASSETT is a member of the Waitangi
Tribunal and former Labour cabinet minister (1984-1990).
10. Palmerston
North barrister MIKE BEHRENS QC
was a journalist before he became a lawyer.
11. GEORGINA BEYER is a Labour MP and former
Mayor of Carterton District (1995-2000)
12. ATHOL BLAIR is a former national
director of Early Childhood Education, Dept. of Education.
13. JOHN BLUMSKY had a long career as a
Christchurch-based broadcaster.
14. HON. MAX BRADFORD is a Wellington consultant.
15. SUE BRADFORD is a Green MP.
16. National MP
DR DON BRASH
is a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (1988-2002).
17. PROF. BRIAN BROOKS specialises in
employment, gaming and welfare law, and ethics and the law, at Victoria University.
18. PROF. JOHN BURROWS specialises in
media law at the University
of Canterbury,
19. Christchurch lawyer HON. DAVID CAYGILL is a former Labour
cabinet minister (1984-1990).
20. SUZANNE CHETWIN is a former editor of
the Sunday Star Times.
21. Journalist
DONNA CHISHOLM is assistant editor
of the Sunday Star Times.
22. MIKE CHUNN is APRA director of NZ
operations.
23. DAVID COHEN is a Wellington journalist.
24. National
MP JUDITH COLLINS is a lawyer and
former Chair of the Casino Control Authority (1999-2002).
25. BARRY COLMAN is publisher of the National Business Review.
26. EM. PROF. BRIAN COOTE (University of Auckland) is an expert on contract
law.
27. PROF. MICHAEL CORBALLIS is director
of the Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Auckland,
28. DAVE CULL is a Dunedin broadcaster and writer.
29. ROB DAVIDSON is a Christchurch lawyer.
30. Writer
LINDSEY DAWSON was the founding
editor of Next, More and Grace magazines.
31. Education
and communications contract worker MICHAEL
DEAKER was formerly South Island Operations Manager for the Ministry of
Education.
32. Outdoor
adventurer GRAEME DINGLE has
received many awards for services to youth.
33. Green
MP and party co-leader ROD DONALD
was a Christchurch Civic Creche parent.
34. KEN DOUGLAS ONZ was secretary of the
Federation of Labour (1979-1987) and president of the NZ Council of Trade
Unions (1988-1999).
35. ALAN DUFF is a novelist and
columiust.
36. CARROLL DU CHATEAU is an Auckland editor.
37. MARILYN DUCKWORTH is a Wellington novelist,
poet and short story writer.
38. JOHN DUNNE is a Christchurch broadcaster.
39. United
Future MP HON. PETER DUNNE is the
leader of his party.
40. ASSOC. PROF. DENIS DUTTON specialises
in aesthetics and the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury.
41. GERRARD ECKHOFF is an ACT MP.
42. DAVID EGGLETON is a performance poet
and freelance operator.
43. DR ROD ELLIS-PEGLER is an Auckland infectious
diseases specialist.
44. SIR PETER ELWORTHY is a businessman
and former Dominion President
of Federated
Fanners.
45. PROF JIM EVANS teaches jurisprudence
and equity at the University
of Auckland.
46. IAN EWEN-STREET is a Green MP.
47. DR ROSS FAIRGRAY is a retired Medical
Superintendent in Chief of the Canterbury Area Health Board.
48. STEPHEN FERGUSON is the Christchurch
Prison Chaplain.
49. CHRIS FINLAYSON is a Wellington barrister and
former Chair of the Arts Board of Creative Mew Zealand.
50. ANTONIA FISHER is an Auckland barrister.
51. Green
MP JEANETTE FITZSIMONS is a
Co-leader of her party,
52. EM. PROF. JAMES FLYNN (University of Otago) combines political and moral
philosophy psychology in his work.
53. ACT
MP STEPHEN FRANKS is a lawyer.
54. During
his long career HON. GEORGE GAIR
has been a National cabinet minister, High Commissioner to London, and Mayor of North Shore.
55. Victoria University psychologist DR MARYANNE GARRY studies real-life
memory distortions.
56. Novelist
MAURICE GEE has been described as
"New Zealand's
Thomas Hardy".
57. EM PROF LLOYD GEERING PCNZM is a
theologian and writer.
58. JENNY GIBBS is an Auckland investor and patron of the arts.
59. JANICE GILL is a Nelson artist.
60. PROF. GRANT GILLETT is a neurosurgeon
and medical ethicist at the University
of Otago.
61. ANN GLUCKMAN was the first woman
principal of a state co-ed secondary school.
62. ALLYSON GOFTON is a food writer.
63. ANNIE GOLDSON is an Auckland lecturer and film maker.
64. PROF DES GORMAN is a medical
specialist.
65. PATRICIA GRACE is a fiction writer.
66. JACQUELINE GRANT of Hokitika is
popularly known as "the Tranny Granny".
67. HON. LAURENCE GREIG is a retired High
Court Judge.
68. STUART GRIEVE QC is an Auckland barrister.
69. Consultant
RICHARD GRIFFIN has previously
been Radio New Zealand political editor, and
press secretary to Prime Minister Jim Bolger.
70. BILL GUDGEON is a NZ First MP.
71. FRANK HADEN is a Wellington journalist.
72. NIGEL HAMPTON QC is a Christchurch barrister.
73. DAME ELIZABETH HANAN is a Dunedin
City Councillor.
74. MIRANDA HARCOURT is a Wellington actor and
director,
75. KARL HARRIES QC is a Canadian
barrister.
76. Waitakere
City Mayor BOB HARVEY is a former
president of the Labour Party.
77. CYNTHIA HAWES specialises in
commercial law and agency at the University
of Canterbury.
78. Writer
PETER HAWES is "probably the only
member of the absurdist movement in NZ."
79. PROF. HARLENE HAYNE specialises in
the development of learning and memory in infants and young children at the University of Otago.
80. PROF. MARK HENAGHAN specializes in
family and criminal law at the University
of Otago.
81. RODNEY HIDE is an ACT MP.
82. Victoria University sociologist PROF. MICHAEL HILL is an expert on
moral panics.
83. DR JOHN HINCHCLIFF is Vice-
Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology.
84. ASSOC. PROF. BILL HODGE (University of Auckland)
is the author of Criminal Procedure in New Zealand.
85. EM. PROF. LES HOLBOROW is a former
Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University.
86. LYNLEY HOOD wrote A City Possessed: the Christchurch Civic Creche case.
87. Theatre
director ELRIC HOOPER was artistic
director of Christchurch's
Court Theatre (1979-2001).
88. ROSIE HORTON is an Auckland charity fundraiser.
89. GLENDA HUGHES is a Wellington communications consultant.
90. KERI HULME's novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in
1985.
91. Writer
and editor VICKI HYDE is Chair
Entity of the NZ Skeptics.
92. Fiction
writer and librettist ASSOC. PROF.
WITI IHIMAERA (University
of Auckland) wrote The Whale Rider.
93. PROF. KERR INKSON is Professor of
Management at the Albany Campus of Massey University.
94. PROF. PETER INNES is Dean of
Dentistry at the University
of Otago.
95. SUZANNE INNES-KENT is a Wellington relationships
consultant.
96. KEVIN IRELAND is a poet, fiction
writer and fisherman.
97. Christchurch firelighter MURRAY JAMIESON accompanied PM Helen dark to Ground Zero in New York.
98. Company
director SIR ROSS JANSEN was
formerly Chair of the Waikato Regional Council and Mayor of Hamilton (1977-
1989), and Chair of the Local Government Commission (1998-2001).
99. ASSOC. PROF. ALISON JONES specialises
in feminist theory and gender at the University of Auckland.
100. SIR ROBERT JONES is a Wellington property
developer and writer.
101. PROF. PHILIP JOSEPH specialises in
constitutional law at the University
of Canterbury.
102. CATHERINE JUDD is the President of
ACT NZ.
103. GARY JUDD QC is an Auckland barrister.
104. DR MICHAEL KING is an historian and
biographer.
105. NETTIE KINMONT is a TV producer
(formerly of Queer Nation).
106. RT HON. DAVID LANGE ONZ is a former New Zealand
Prime Minister (1984-1988) and lawyer.
107. Journalist
ROBYN LANGWELL is the editor of North & South.
108. BARBARA LARSON is a Dunedin book publisher.
109. Director
SIR GRAHAM LATIMER is a former
president of the New Zealand Maori Council (1973-2002).
110. KEITH LOCKE is a Green MP.
111. FINLAY MACDONALD is the editor of the
New Zealand Listener.
112. SHONA DUNLOP MACTAVISH is a
choreographer and author.
113. DAVID MCATAMNEY is a Central Otago farmer and opera singer.
114. GORDON MCLAUCHLAN is an Auckland writer and
broadcaster.
115. Consultant
OWEN MCSHANE is a columnist for
the National Business Review.
116. EM PROF ALAN MARK DCNZM is a
botanist.
117. RON MARK is a NZ First MP.
118. G. MASTENBROEK is chair of the Whakatane
Mental Health Group.
119. Lawyer
JUDITH MEDLICOTT is a former
Master-mind, and former Chancellor of the University of Otago.
120. ELIZABETH MILLER is an Invercargill
storyteller.
121. RT HON. MIKE MOORE ONZ is a former NZ
Prime Minister (1990) and former Director-General of the World Trade
Organisation (1999-2002).
122. EM. PROF. GRAHAM MORTIMER is a
retired paediatrician.
123. DR RICHARD MULLEN is a consultant
psychiatrist.
124. MARGARET MURRAY-BENGE is a former
Chnstchurch City Councillor.
125. DR MURIEL NEWMAN is an ACT MP.'
126. Sociologist
ASSOC. PROF. GREG NEWBOLD studies
crime and justice at the University
of Canterbury.
127. Novelist,
poet and playwright PROF. VINCENT
O'SULLTVAN DCNZM teaches in the Department of English at Victoria University.
128. PITA PARAONE is a NZ First MP.
129. DAVID PARKER is a Labour MP.
130. LINDSAY PERIGO is a Wellington broadcaster.
131. EDWIN PERRY is a NZ First MP.
132. JIM PETERS is a NZ First MP.
133. NZ
First MP RT. HON. WINSTON PETERS
is the leader of his party.
134. SEAN PLUNKET is a Wellington broadcaster.
135. PROF. JOHN PRATT is a Victoria University criminologist.
136. PROF. JOHN PREBBLE specialises in
taxation, contract and electoral law at Victoria University.
137. RENEE is a feminist dramatist and
fiction writer.
138. KATHERINE RICH is a National MP.
139. BERNARD ROBERTSON is editor of the New Zealand Law Journal.
140. GEOFF ROBINSON is a Wellington broadcaster.
141. MATT ROBSON is Progressive Coalition
MP.
142. HON. STANRODGER is a former Labour
cabinet minister (1984-1990).
143. Auckland journalist WARWICK ROGER was the founding editor
of Metro.
144. JOHN ROWAN QC is a Wanganui
barrister.
145. Auckland
Licensed Private Investigator BRYAN
ROWE is a retired Superintendent of Police.
146. HEATHER ROY is an ACT MP.
147. ANNE RUSH is a Nelson artist.
148. Actor,
writer, director and Downstage Theatre
founder MARTYN SANDERSON played
the Gate Keeper of Bree in Lord of the
Rings.
149. PROF, SIR JOHN SCOTT is Professor
Emeritus of Medicine at the University
of Auckland.
150. ACT
MP HON. KEN SHIRLEY is the Deputy
Leader of his party.
151. CLEM SIMICH is a National MP and
former Minister of Police.
152. TONY SIMPSON is a social historian
and former PSA president.
153. LEIGHTON SMITH is an Auckland broadcaster.
154. DR DONALD STEVENS QC is a Wellington barrister.
155. BARBARA STEWART is a NZ First MP.
156. PROF. KEN STRONGMAN specialises in
the psychology of emotions at the University
of Canterbury.
157. PETER SUTTON is the retired Bishop of
Nelson.
158. GRAHAME SYDNEY is an Otago artist.
159. HON. DR SIR PETER TAPSELL is a former
Minister of the Crown.
160. Victoria University EM PROF. TONY TAYLOR is a stress/trauma consultant.
161. PHILIP TEMPLE writes fiction and non-
fiction for adults and children.
162. ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS was wrongfully
convicted of murder in 1971, and pardoned 1979. The Royal Commission of
Inquiry into his case was headed by an overseas judge.
163. REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD THORNE CB
(retired) is a former Chief of Naval Staff.
164 PROF. STEPHEN TODD specialises in the
Law of Torts and accident compensation law at the University of Canterbury
165 ESME TOMBLESON was Gisborne's first
woman MP
166. GARRICK TREMAIN is a Queenstown
painter and cartoonist.
167. CHRIS TROTTER is an Auckland journalist.
168. Oturehua
writer BRIAN TURNER is the 2003 Te
Mata Estate N2 Poet Laureate.
169. Cricket
coach GLENN TURNER'S highest test
score was 259 against the West Indies in
1972.
170. SUKHI TURNER DCNZM is the Mayor of
Dunedin.
171. DR JAMES WALSHE is a Christchurch
psychiatrist.
172. PETER WELLS is an Auckland writer and film maker.
173. ASSOC. PROF. REV. DR DAVID V. WILLIAMS
(University of Auckland) has degrees in law, history
and theology.
174. PETER WILLIAMS QC is an Auckland barrister.
175. COLIN WITHNALL QC is a Dunedin barrister.
176. JANE WRIGHTSON is CEO of the Screen
Producers & Directors Assoc.
177. Retired
Auckland neurosurgeon PHILIP WRIGHTSON helped exonerate some UK parents falsely accused of shaking
their babies.
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