Annabel Young
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Annabel Margaret Young (born 1956){{cite web |url= https://www.parliament.nz/media/6305/roll-of-members-of-the-new-zealand-house-of-representatives-1854-onwards.pdf |title=Roll of members of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1854 onwards |date=24 May 2019 |publisher=New Zealand Parliament |access-date=30 March 2021}} is a former New Zealand politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2002, representing the National Party.
Early life and family
Before entering politics, Young worked as a tax specialist and business consultant, being a lawyer and chartered accountant.{{Cite web|last=New Zealand National Party|date=15 December 1999|title=MP Young allocated Revenue and Wellington seats|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9912/S00062.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224135241/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9912/S00062.htm |archive-date=24 December 2014 |access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.scoop.co.nz}} She also spent nine years in the territorial army signal corps.{{Cite web|last=New Zealand National Party|date=7 September 1999|title=What do Party List MPs do?|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9909/S00149.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050227003717/http://www.scoop.co.nz:80/stories/PA9909/S00149.htm |archive-date=27 February 2005 |access-date=2020-10-03|website=www.scoop.co.nz}}
Young's father, Bill Young, was also a National MP, representing the Miramar electorate from 1966 to 1981. One of Young's sisters, Nicola, is a Wellington City Councillor and stood as a candidate in the Rongotai electorate in the 2005 general election, however lost to the incumbent, Annette King.{{cite news|last=Orsman|first=Bernard|date=15 September 2005|title=The candidates who stand to lose|work=The New Zealand Herald|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/government/news/article.cfm?c_id=49&objectid=10345624|accessdate=27 May 2010}} Another sister, Rosemary, married National MP Max Bradford.{{Cite web|date=2013-09-18|title=Big names eye vacant seats Lambton ward|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/9155605/Big-names-eye-vacant-seats-Lambton-ward|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Stuff |language=en}} Her great-grandfather was the early 20th-century Wellington mayor and Liberal–Reform MP John Luke.{{Cite news |title=Entry to House ironic, says MP |work=The Dominion ]}}
Member of Parliament
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Young sought the National Party candidacy in the Wellington Central electorate for the 1996 general election, but lost to Mark Thomas.{{Cite news |last=Scherer |first=Karyn |last2=Boyd |first2=Sarah |date=17 December 1996 |title=A phone call worth answering |work=The Evening Post |page=2 }} Instead, she stood as a list-only candidate. Although she was not immediately successful, Young eventually entered Parliament on 23 April 1997, having been the next candidate on National's party list when list MP Jim Gerard resigned. As Gerard had been the first list MP to resign after New Zealand adopted the mixed-member proportional electoral system in 1996,{{Cite news|last=Young|first=Audrey|date=2017-01-16|title=MP resignations before and after MMP|language=en-NZ|work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11780469|access-date=2020-10-02|issn=1170-0777}} Young was the first list MP to be elected not at a general election. She said her entry to Parliament in this way was ironic given she had not supported the electoral system change that led to the introduction of list MPs.
In Young's first term as a list MP, despite being a Wellingtonian, she was assigned by the party to be based in Hawke's Bay.{{Cite web|last=New Zealand National Party|date=7 July 1999|title=Young Seeks Wellington Central List Nomination|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00093.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224125309/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00093.htm |archive-date=24 December 2014 |access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.scoop.co.nz}} She was appointed the National Party spokesperson for senior citizens by new leader Jenny Shipley in 1997.{{Cite news |date=17 December 1997 |title=Shipley introduces buddy system for backbenchers |work=The Dominion |pages=2 }} The National Party did not stand an electorate candidate in Wellington Central in the 1999 election{{Cite web|last=New Zealand National Party|date=22 September 1999|title=Nats Not Standing In Wellington Central|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9909/S00452.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224132104/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9909/S00452.htm |archive-date=24 December 2014 |access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.scoop.co.nz}} (having previously endorsed ACT leader Richard Prebble for the seat). Young again stood as a list-only candidate, campaigning in Wellington city, and was re-elected. With the National Party now in opposition, Young served as National's revenue spokesperson under both Shipley and her successor, Bill English, based in Wellington.{{cite web|last=Hembry|first=Owen|date=31 January 2010|title=Former MP speaks up for farmers|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10008745|accessdate=27 May 2010|work=The New Zealand Herald}}
In 2000, during debate on the Employment Relations Bill, Young was photographed yawning, and the photograph was subsequently published in The Evening Post.{{Cite web|date=2015-02-18|title=Parliament wakes up to the power of published photos|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/66373774/parliament-wakes-up-to-the-power-of-published-photos|access-date=2020-10-03|website=Stuff |language=en}}{{cite web|last=Young|first=Audrey|date=3 August 2006|title=NZ First MP apologises for obscene gesture in Parliament|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/canwest-mediaworks/news/article.cfm?o_id=34&objectid=10394256|accessdate=27 May 2010|work=The New Zealand Herald}} This prompted Speaker of the House Jonathan Hunt to ban television cameras and newspaper photographers from the House of Representatives.{{cite web|date=15 August 2000|title=PM happy for media rules to be loosened|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=147840|accessdate=27 May 2010|work=The New Zealand Herald}}
In the 2002 election Young stood for a third time as a list-only candidate but, at 33rd on the list and the lowest of National's sitting MPs,{{Cite news|date=2002-06-16|title=Brash takes fifth spot on National Party list released today|language=en-NZ|work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/|access-date=2020-10-03|issn=1170-0777}} was ranked too low to escape the collapse of National's vote that year.{{Cite news|date=2002-08-01|title=Tears flow as 16 MPs say goodbye|language=en-NZ|work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/|access-date=2020-10-02|issn=1170-0777}} She had sought nomination to be the National candidate in Wellington Central, but lost to Hekia Parata.{{Cite news|date=2002-03-10|title=National to fight old ally|language=en-NZ|work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/|access-date=2020-10-03|issn=1170-0777}}{{Cite news|date=2001-12-16|title=Newcomer vows to shake Labour in next election|language=en-NZ|work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/|access-date=2020-10-03|issn=1170-0777}} Also at that election, Young endorsed the candidacy of Judith Collins—a long-time friend—for the National candidacy in the new Clevedon electorate, over sitting MP Warren Kyd.{{Cite news|date=2002-05-10|title=Low-key Kyd has ally in Simich|language=en-NZ|work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/|access-date=2020-10-03|issn=1170-0777}}
Life after parliament
After leaving Parliament, Young was tax director of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. In 2005, she became chief executive of Federated Farmers, and in 2008 moved to the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand as Chief Executive. She resigned from the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand in April 2012{{Cite web|date=2012-04-19|title=Pharmacy Guild head leaves|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/6773286/Pharmacy-Guild-head-leaves|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Stuff |language=en}} and later became executive director of the New Zealand Shipping Federation.{{Cite web|title=Port Future Study {{!}} Annabel Young|url=http://www.portfuturestudy.co.nz/members/annabelyoung.asp|access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.portfuturestudy.co.nz}}
She has also written a book, The Good Lobbyist's Guide, about the most effective ways for citizens to become involved in the political process.
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