| 词条 | David Benson-Pope |
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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | name = David Benson-Pope | honorific-suffix = | image = David Benson-Pope.jpg | alt = | caption = | order = 4th Minister for the Environment | primeminister = Helen Clark | term_start = 19 October 2005 | term_end = 27 July 2007 | predecessor = Marian Hobbs | successor = David Parker (acting) Trevor Mallard | constituency_MP4 = Dunedin South | parliament4 = New Zealand | majority4 = 10,640 (30.27%)[1] | term_start4 = 1999 | term_end4 = 2008 | predecessor4 = Dr Michael Cullen | successor4 = Clare Curran | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | birthname = | nationality = | party = Labour | otherparty = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = Henry Sammy | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = Teacher | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | religion = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} David Henry Benson-Pope (born 1950) is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who sat in the New Zealand Parliament from 1999 to 2008. He formerly served as a cabinet minister and in 2013 was elected to the Dunedin City Council. Early careerBorn in Dunedin and educated at King's High School, Benson-Pope received his tertiary education at the University of Otago and at the Christchurch College of Education. While studying education he was president of the Students' Association at the college, and National President of the Student Teachers' Association of New Zealand. He became involved in the teachers' unions working as a teacher and was first elected to the Dunedin City Council in October 1986. He remained a city councillor for five terms until 1999, when he successfully contested the Dunedin South electorate for the Labour Party. Member of Parliament{{NZ parlbox header|align=left}}{{NZ parlbox|start={{NZ election link year|1999}}|end=2002|term=46th|electorate=Dunedin South|list=54|party=New Zealand Labour Party}}{{NZ parlbox|start={{NZ election link year|2002}} |end=2005|term=47th|electorate=Dunedin South|list=36|party=New Zealand Labour Party}}{{NZ parlbox|start={{NZ election link year|2005}} |end=2008|term=48th|electorate=Dunedin South|list=23|party=New Zealand Labour Party}}{{NZ parlbox footer}} In 2002, Benson-Pope became his party's Senior Whip. He entered Cabinet in 2004, becoming Minister of Fisheries, Minister Responsible for the Law Commission, Associate Minister of Justice, Associate Minister for Education (schools) and Associate Minister for the Environment. He oversaw the drafting of the legislation for civil unions in New Zealand. Despite briefly losing his ministerial positions leading up to the 2005 general election, Benson-Pope was appointed Minister of Social Development and Employment and Minister for the Environment in the third term of the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. Allegations of misconduct as a teacherBenson-Pope was temporarily stood down as a cabinet minister in 2005 after allegations from former students about the use of violence in the class room. The allegations included stuffing a tennis ball in 14-year-old's mouth, throwing tennis balls at students to keep them quiet, striking a pupil with the back of his hand making the pupil's nose bleed at a school camp, and caning a student hard enough to draw blood. Benson-Pope denied the allegations.[2] Investigate magazine published, in February 2006, allegations that he entered the girls' dormitory to awaken students twice, and that he told them once that they were taking too long to shower after a "mud run." Benson-Pope denied any impropriety.[3]2007 Environment Ministry allegationsBenson-Pope faced further controversy in 2007, which led to the resignation of his ministerial posts and the end of his Parliamentary career. In 2007 he resigned the Ministerial posts and resumed the role of a backbencher representing the Dunedin South electorate. In 2008 he sought to recontest the Dunedin South seat on behalf of the Labour Party but was not chosen as the Labour Party representative for the seat. In July 2007 it emerged that a political advisor in Benson-Pope's office (the Labour Party's Trade Union Affiliate Vice-President Steve Hurring) made phone calls which led to the sacking of the Ministry for the Environment's newly appointed Communications Manager. The issue revolved around her relationship with the chief press secretary to National's parliamentary leader John Key, despite the fact that she had "made a disclosure of her personal connections" during the appointment process. [4][5][6][7](Under New Zealand's State Sector Act, ministers and their staff may not become involved in employment matters within their ministries, with the law placing on CEOs of ministries a "duty to act independently of Ministers in matters relating to decisions on individual employees").[8] After a week of intense pressure focusing not only on the allegation that his staff had acted improperly, but also that he himself had misled Parliament, the media and his Prime Minister about his knowledge and involvement, Benson-Pope offered his resignation from Cabinet at noon on Friday 27 July 2007. Subsequent investigations by the State Services Commissioners Hunn and Prebble make it clear that neither the Minister nor his staff acted in any way inappropriately.[9] Prime Minister Helen Clark accepted the resignation, saying: "The way in which certain issues have been handled this week has led to a loss of credibility and on that basis I have accepted Mr Benson-Pope's offer to stand aside".[10] An editorial commented "Not for the first time, he and the Government have been embarrassed less for what he has done than for his inability to simply say what he has done." [11] Although Benson-Pope was later cleared of any wrongdoing in this case,[12] he remained a backbencher for the remainder of the parliamentary term. Later careerIn 2008, Benson-Pope was invited to join the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party by leader Julian Crawford, but he declined, saying, "Their judgement has obviously been impaired by their recreational habits".[13] Benson-Pope then sought the nomination of the Labour Party to contest the Dunedin South electorate in the 2008 general election but ultimately was not chosen by the party. His successor, Clare Curran, was duly elected. Returning to Dunedin, Benson-Pope worked as a resource consent manager and sought election to the Dunedin City Council in the 2013 local body elections.[12] He stood as an independent candidate and was elected on 12 October 2013.[14] On 26 February 2015, Benson-Pope announced that he would contest the 2016 local body elections under the "Local Labour" ticket.[15] Personal lifeBenson-Pope is married with twin children.[16] References1. ^At 2008 election 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10125894 |title=Benson-Pope steps down as bully inquiry looms |publisher=Nzherald.co.nz |date= |accessdate=31 January 2016}} 3. ^{{cite news | last = Fisher| first = David| title = New questions for Benson-Pope| work = The New Zealand Herald | date = 26 February 2006| url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10370099 }} 4. ^{{cite web| coauthors =| title =Briefing from State Services Commission received| publisher =Government of New Zealand| date =20 July 2007| url =http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=30104| deadurl =yes| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20070927030125/http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=30104| archivedate =27 September 2007| df =dmy-all}} 5. ^{{cite news | title = Benson-Pope under fire | publisher = TV3 | date = 28 July 2007 | url = http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/PoliticalNews/BensonPopeunderfire/tabid/419/articleID/31112/Default.aspx#top}} 6. ^{{cite news | last = Audrey| first = Young | title = Phone call that ended job | work = The New Zealand Herald | date = 21 July 2007| url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10452915 }} 7. ^{{cite web| coauthors =| title =Trade Union Affiliates| publisher =New Zealand Labour Party| url =http://www.labour.org.nz/labour_team/party_groups/affiliates/index.html| website =Labour.org.nz| accessdate =31 January 2015| deadurl =yes| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212400/http://www.labour.org.nz/labour_team/party_groups/affiliates/index.html| archivedate =27 September 2007| df =dmy-all}} 8. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?docid=4332&pageno=8 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017122740/http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?docid=4332&pageno=8 | archive-date=17 October 2008 | title=State Sector Act 1988}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ssc.govt.nz/upload/downloadable_files/Report_by_DK_Hunn_to_SSCer_%28main_body%29.pdf|title=Investigation into the public service recruitment and employment of Ms Madeleine Setchell|author=D K Hunn|date=12 November 2007}} 10. ^{{cite news | title = Benson-Pope resignation statements in full | work = The New Zealand Herald| date = 27 July 2007 | url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10454225&pnum=2 }} 11. ^{{cite news | title = Editorial: Inability to be 'free and frank' the last straw | work = The New Zealand Herald| date = 28 July 2007| url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10454334 }} 12. ^1 {{Cite news|last=Morris |first=Chris |title=Benson-Pope eyes DCC seat |url=http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/266851/benson-pope-eyes-dcc-seat|date=31 July 2013|website=Odt.co.nz |accessdate=14 October 2013}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/9280/party-makes-mp-offer-he-can-refuse|title=Party makes MP offer he can refuse|date=12 June 2008|author=Mackenzie, Dene|work=Otago Daily Times|accessdate=3 November 2011}} 14. ^{{cite web |title=Dunedin City Council : 2013 Triennial Elections |url=http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/345979/Dunedin-City-Council-2013-Triennial-Elections-Preliminary-STV-Result-Report.pdf |publisher=Dunedin City Council |accessdate=14 October 2013 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 15. ^{{cite news|last1=Morris|first1=Chris|title=Greater Dunedin disbands|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/374454/greater-dunedin-disbands|accessdate=30 March 2016|publisher=Otago Daily Times|date=26 February 2016}} 16. ^{{cite news|last=Mackenzie|first=Dene|title=Benson-Pope stands by Labour in valedictory speech|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/24077/benson-pope-stands-labour-valedictory-speech|website=Odt.co.nz|date=26 September 2008|accessdate=14 October 2013}} Further reading
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