The Christchurch Civic Crèche Case

2003 Documents

The Petition of Lynley Hood et al - Index



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.