Bruce Cliffe
{{Short description|New Zealand politician (1946–2022)}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}}
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Bruce Windsor Cliffe (24 September 1946 – 13 July 2022) was a New Zealand businessman{{cite book|last=Bohan|first=Edmund|title=Burdon: a man of our time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ijCGmSeVp6AC&pg=RA1-PA153|access-date=19 February 2011|date=January 2004|publisher=Hazard Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-877270-90-1|page=153}} and politician.{{cite news|quote=Bruce Cliffe an Auckland member of Parliament who is overseeing a hastily assembled water crisis committee said|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F0DB9113183F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Usually wet Auckland wakes up to reality of drought Problem pinned on privatization, politicians, Pinatubo|date=12 August 1994|work=The Washington Times|access-date=19 February 2011}}{{cite book|last=Dannin|first=Ellen J.|title=Working free: the origins and impact of New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unFwJGU5QuYC&pg=PA159|year=1997|publisher=Auckland University Press|isbn=978-1-86940-174-0|page=159}}
Early life
Cliffe was born in Auckland in 1946. His parents were Mervyn Walter and Hilda Frances Cliffe. He received his education at Campbells Bay School, Murrays Bay Intermediate, and Takapuna Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Auckland in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1971, he obtained a certificate in management studies from Templeton College, Oxford.{{cite book |title=Who's Who in New Zealand, 1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6x8OAQAAMAAJ |last1=Lambert |first1=Max |year=1991 |edition=12th |publisher=Octopus |location=Auckland|isbn = 9780790001302 |page=123}}
Cliffe married Josephine Jessie Winefield in 1969. They were to have one son and two daughters.
Member of Parliament
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Cliffe was a Member of Parliament for the National Party from 1990 to 1996. In 1990 he replaced the retiring George Gair in the North Shore seat, and was re-elected in 1993. He became a Cabinet Minister in December 1993 holding the portfolios of Accident Compensation,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xvlNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6531,1307889&dq=bruce-cliffe&hl=en|title=Coffee kicks up a storm|date=13 December 1994|work=New Sunday Times|access-date=19 February 2011}} Radio & Television, and Associate Finance.
In 1994 he proposed Water Services Limited (Auckland Emergency water supply) bill.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_bill/wslewsb1994281583/|title = Watercare Services Limited (Auckland Emergency Water Supply) Bill 1994 (28-1)}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vdig.net/hansard/content.jsp?id=43150|title = New Zealand Hansard: Tuesday, September 06, 1994}}
In 1995, with the first mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation election impending in 1996, he resigned his cabinet posts and was a founder member of the United New Zealand Party, initially led by Clive Matthewson.{{Cite news |author=Edwards, Brent |title=MPs Jump Ship – Seven Quit for United Party |date=28 June 1995 |work=The Evening Post |page=1 }} Cliffe then unsuccessfully sought to bring about a merger of ACT and United, along with other smaller "centre" or liberal parties to create a "united" centre party for the new MMP environment. In 1996 he chose to resign from Parliament. The United New Zealand Party lost all but Peter Dunne's seat in the 1996 election, and continued in Parliament under Dunne's leadership.
On 27–29 May 1995, he participated in "Wellington After the Quake" Conference (page 191).{{cite web |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/11518/ATQ.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=The Challenge of Rebuilding Cities|website=canterbury.ac.nz|access-date=1 June 2023}}
After politics
From 1997, Cliffe was the director of several businesses, including Northern Finance Limited, a property management company, and Millbank Technology Limited, trading as Zapmill.
In 2016, Cliffe expressed his disagreement with Living Earth getting a consent to process 75,000 tonnes of garden waste annually on Puketutu Island.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11572802|title = Stink brewing over council approval for compost plant}}
Cliffe died on 13 July 2022.{{cite news |url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/the-cliffe-obituary?pid=202398996 |title=The Honourable Bruce Windsor Cliffe |date=18 July 2022 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=18 July 2022}}
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