She led the party to its second-worst defeat in the party's history at the election , losing 23 seats. Collins was born in Hamilton. Her parents were dairy farmers Percy and Jessie Collins of Walton in the Waikato and she was the youngest of six children.
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He was then a police officer and had migrated from Samoa as a child. They have one son. Collins was a Labour Party supporter from childhood, [5] but by had been a member of the National Party for three years. After leaving university, she worked as a lawyer , specialising in employment, property, commercial, and tax law. In the last two years before election to Parliament, she worked as special counsel for Minter Ellison Rudd Watts — Although technically a new electorate, Clevedon was largely based on the old Hunua electorate, held by National's Warren Kyd.
In , these responsibilities were changed for those of Associate Spokesperson on Justice and Spokesperson on Tourism. She was generally regarded as having performed well and when Katherine Rich refused to give full support to the controversial Orewa Speech by then-party leader Don Brash , Rich was demoted in February and Collins became National's spokesperson on Social Welfare instead. In , while in opposition, Collins campaigned for an inquiry to find out whether New Zealand troops were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and if so any effect this subsequently had.
Collins' Clevedon electorate disappeared under boundary changes for the election. She originally announced her intention to seek the National Party nomination for Howick , which comprises the urban part of her former Clevedon electorate. However, following objections made to the Electoral Commission over draft changes to the boundaries that saw a major redrawing of the adjacent constituency Pakuranga , the draft Howick was redrawn and renamed Botany.
Collins then sought and won the nomination for Papakura which comprises the other half of her former Clevedon electorate and allowed her colleague National Party MP Pansy Wong to seek nomination for Botany. Collins won Papakura with a majority of more than 10, The National Party formed a government after the election, and Collins entered Cabinet with the portfolios of Police , Corrections and Veterans' Affairs. In , Collins questioned the leadership of, and later refused to express confidence in, Department of Corrections chief executive Barry Matthews , after a spate of bad publicity.
Collins increased the availability of work programmes in prison, [17] and increased funding to widen the availability of alcohol and drug treatment programmes. Corrections built three new Drug Treatment Units and introducing condensed treatment programmes for prisoners serving shorter sentences. This was the first prison since to be managed by a private sector contractor. In June , Collins announced that from 1 July [21] tobacco smoking and possessing lighters in prison would be banned, to reduce the health risk that smoking and fire presented to prison guards and prisoners.
Following a police trial of tasers in —07, Collins supported their introduction by then Police Commissioner Howard Broad. During her early years in parliament, Collins developed a reputation for tough talking and in was nicknamed Crusher Collins when she proposed legislation to ' crush ' the cars of persistent boy racers. In , Collins moderated the cuts-back to legal aid begun by her predecessor, Simon Power. She reduced the charges for family and civil cases, delayed the period before interest is charged on outstanding legal aid debt and dropped a proposal to make it harder to get legal aid for less serious crimes such as theft, assault or careless driving.
After a two-year investigation the Law Commission produced a report for government with recommendations to reform New Zealand's alcohol laws. While some legislative changes were passed in December , the Opposition and health sector lobbyists said the evidence-based advice from the Commission was disregarded by Collins and her predecessor Simon Power with the result that the final legislation "was a pale imitation of the landmark Law Commission report it was based on.
However, in the face of criticism from the liquor industry, she back-tracked on this ban, and three months later announced that the industry would develop its own voluntary code "to limit the harm to young people caused by RTDs". Sellman said: "It's called the Alcohol Reform Bill but it has no reforms in it". In December , Collins revealed she had concerns about the robustness of a report authored by retired Canadian Supreme Court judge Ian Binnie , which recommended that David Bain should be paid compensation for the 13 years he spent in prison before being acquitted at retrial in This fact, combined with the circumstances around the peer review by Fisher, led to accusations from Bain's team and from Justice Binnie that Collins was not following an "even handed process".
The claim alleged Collins breached natural justice and the Bill of Rights Act in her treatment of him and that she "acted in bad faith, abused her power, and acted in a biased, unreasonable and predetermined manner". As part of these changes the board chair, John Judge, did not have his tenure on the board renewed, [47] and the chief executive Ralph Stewart resigned the next day.
In March , Collins was accused of a conflict of interest after an overseas trip where she 'dropped in' and endorsed the milk produced by Oravida — a New Zealand company which exports to China — of which her husband is a director. After being admonished by the Prime Minister, Collins apologised and stated that she and a Chinese executive were 'very close personal friends'. Collins did not provide his name, which House speaker David Carter described as "very unsatisfactory".
In August the book Dirty Politics , written by Nicky Hager , revealed that Collins was friends with right-wing blogger Cameron Slater and had passed on private information to him about Simon Pleasants, a public servant at Internal Affairs. Collins believed Pleasants had leaked information about Deputy Prime Minister Bill English misusing his housing allowance. Slater published Mr Pleasant's name and details on his blog as well as the abuse and death threats that were subsequently directed at Mr Pleasants.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters claimed he was approached to do a post— election deal with National with Collins as leader. Peters went on to say he would swear an affidavit that he had been approached. Collins denied this claim. On 30 August Collins resigned her Cabinet positions following the leak of another e-mail written by Slater in , which suggested she had also attempted to undermine another public servant, Adam Feeley.
Collins says she resigned because she believed the attacks on her had become a distraction for the National Party leading up to the election. She called for an inquiry so she could clear her name. After the election, John Key left Collins off the "Roll of the Honourables" due to the ongoing inquiry into her role with Adam Feeley. This made her ineligible to use the title ' The Honourable '. Collins was cleared of involvement in the Adam Feeley smear. She was sworn in again on 14 December John Key announced his resignation as leader of the National Party on 5 December The following day, Collins announced her intention to stand as his replacement, which would have elevated her to the prime ministership.
On 8 December, both Collins and Coleman withdrew as candidates, allowing English to be elected unopposed. On 20 December , she was officially sworn in as a minister with new portfolios in the new Bill English cabinet. The corrections and police portfolios were given to Louise Upston and Paula Bennett , respectively. Bill English announced his resignation as leader of the National Party on 13 February The following day, Collins became the first person to announce their intention to stand as his replacement; she was later joined by Amy Adams and Simon Bridges.
She cited the need for "strong and decisive leadership". In late May , Collins, in her capacity as Opposition Transport spokesperson, raised the matter that Transport Minister Phil Twyford had made an unauthorised phone call while his flight had taken off; a violation of national civil aviation laws. In response, Twyford offered to resign as Transport Minister.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stripped Twyford of his civil aviation portfolio but retained him as Transport Minister. On 14 July , Collins was elected as leader of the National Party following a leadership election held following the abrupt resignation of Todd Muller earlier that day.
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She became the second female leader of the National Party. Collins lead the party to the election as significant underdogs, with opinion polls suggesting historically large swings to the Labour Party , reflecting its well-received response to the COVID pandemic. Collins, although more popular than her predecessors Todd Muller and Simon Bridges , still significantly lagged behind Jacinda Ardern as preferred prime minister by 30 to 40 points.
Ultimately, the election saw a massive Labour landslide, with the party winning 64 seats, enough to form a majority government in its own right. Meanwhile, Collins lead the National Party to a crushing defeat, suffering a 17 point swing against them, and a 21 seat drop; finishing with a measly 35 seats. The result was the second-worst defeat the National Party had ever suffered, edged out by the disaster , where the party won an even grimmer number of 27 seats.
With the result beyond doubt, a near-tearful Collins announced on election night that she had telephoned Ardern and conceded defeat, but vowed that the party would bounce back stronger in the next election. Collins has been described as a conservative. Collins has a mixed record on LGBT issues. In , she voted against the Civil Union Act and the Relationships Statutory References Act , stating not because of any sort of homophobic views but because it created a parallel form of marriage.
In Parliament she stated, "This Bill is a sop to gay couples, in which they are being told that they can have second best.
That is not good enough. In , Collins voted against the Misuse of Drugs Medicinal Cannabis Amendment Bill , a bill aimed at amending the Misuse of Drugs Act to allow the use of cannabis for medical purposes. In , Collins pledged to support abortion-law changes which would make it illegal to perform an abortion on someone under the age of 16 without parental notification. Collins had proposed adding this to the Care of Children Act in In , Collins supported both the Abortion Legislation Act , which decriminalised abortion, and the proposed End of Life Choice Bill that would legalise assisted dying.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the American folk singer, see Judy Collins. New Zealand politician.
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