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Gareth Thomas Llewelyn Hughes (born 31 October 1981) is a New Zealand politician and member of the Green Party. He was elected to Parliament as the next person on the Green party list following the retirement of Jeanette Fitzsimons.
Early life
Hughes grew up in Gisborne, and, after attending Gisborne Boys' High School, studied religious studies, history and politics at Victoria University of Wellington. He worked for Greenpeace in Australia and New Zealand from 2000–2005, and then worked for the Green Party on climate change issues. He is married with two children, Arlo and Zoe. In May 2004, Hughes was arrested after dressing as Ronald McDonald and chaining himself to the gates of McDonald's New Zealand distribution centre in Wiri, Auckland, protesting against the use of ...
MP Gareth Hughes will have plastic surgery to repair a badly broken nose, busted while playing for the Parliamentary Rugby XV.
Hughes, the only Green Party MP in the side, suffered the injury on Monday in a game against a Diplomatic Corps XV in Wellington. The match was a warm-up for the Parliamentary World Cup, starting next Sunday.
The broken nose forced him out of yesterday's game against a West Coast invitational team in Greymouth – won by the Coasters 12-0.
"I got the ball out of a ruck and started charging it up," Hughes said. "But then I got knocked with some guy's ...
amalia - in poll Gareth Hughes Green Party MP Gareth Hughes is touring universities to promote his new member’s bill that will help ensure everyone has a warm home. Tomorrow Gareth will be in Dunedin talking to students about the substandard housing they have to live in.
Gareth will also be touring cold flats in Dunedin between 3.30 and 4.30pm and will be staying the night in another cold flat - 620 Great King Street (by the University).Adequate housing is an essential that all New Zealanders should be guaranteed. We know that there are a lot of cold damp rentals out there and that lots of people have to live in them ...
Location: ParliamentGARETH HUGHES (Green): Kia ora, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am happy to take a call on this legislation tonight. It is mostly common sense.I want to talk about a couple of loves of mine: rugby and the Rugby World Cup. In less than 500 days the world cup kicks off, and it will be the biggest ever event for New Zealand to host, but also a good time for infrastructure opportunities, and a chance we could have taken advantage of to leverage our natural assets and actually built our prosperity. It is a big deal because the world cup is part of the Government's five infrastructure ...
