Michael Cox (New Zealand politician)

Michael Ernest Christopher Cox OBE (born 10 May 1939) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

New Zealand Parliament
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1978–1981	39th	Manawatu		National
1981–1984	40th	Manawatu		National
1984–1987	41st	Manawatu		National

Cox was born in 1939 at Oxford, England. He was in the British Merchant Navy, and was a chief officer with the Union Steam Ship Company before becoming a chartered accountant in Palmerston North.[1]

He represented the Manawatu electorate in Parliament from 1978[2] to 1987, when he was defeated by David Robinson. From 1981 to 1985 he was Junior Whip for the party.[1]

He married his former National MP colleague Katherine O'Regan in 1992.[3]

In 1990, Cox was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[4] In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.[5]

Personal views

He has claimed that climate change is not caused by humans. He has called global warming "Complete rubbish."[6]

Notes

1. Gustafson 1986, p. 306.
2. Wilson 1985, p. 191.
3. "O'Regan, Katherine (1946–) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
4. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 109. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
5. "Queen's Birthday honours list 1995". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 17 June 1995. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
6. "Global Warming? Complete rubbish". Stuff.co.nz. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)