Introducing the Business Overview Series

The first of this year’s newly introduced Business Overview Series got off to a good start with the Autumn Business Overview, held in Parliament’s Banquet Hall on Wednesday 12 June, and attended by MPs, Trustees and Corporate guests.

The guest speaker was Peter Thompson, Managing Director of Barfoot & Thompson, whose topic: “How do we get people into affordable housing?” was very relevant to the current problems facing a large proportion of the population. It was very well received even though attendance numbers were somewhat disappointing due to a number of competing events being held within the Parliamentary complex on the same evening.

A copy of Peter’s speech is included in this Issue as a supplement and also appears on our website: nzbpt.org.nz

Details of the next Business Overview event are shown below.

Date to note in your diary -

SPRING BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Wednesday 23 October at 6 pm

Grand Hall & Legislative Council Chamber

Parliament House

GUEST SPEAKER Sir Mark Solomon KNZM

Kaiwhakahaere (Chair), Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu

Topic: “The overall significance of the developing Māori

Economy and the long-term perspective”.

ISSUE 2 SEPTEMBER 2013

The Trust continues to monitor its programmes with a view to meeting the changing needs of members. With this in mind, the Trust Board is pleased to announce the following new initiatives:

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP FOR RETIRING MPS: In the past, any MP who had achieved Associate Membership of the Trust by undertaking an Attachment with a Corporate Member ceased to retain that Membership once he or she left Parliament. This will no longer be the case and MPs will be free to retain their Membership for as long as they wish.

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP JOINT VENTURES: Those Corporate Members who have links to other companies and/or subsidiaries are welcome to nominate representatives from those subsidiaries or associate organisations to attend Parliamentary Seminars or other Trust events.

UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY - NEW SCHOLARSHIP: A new scholarship of $5,000 will be available to post-graduate students of the University of Canterbury from the beginning of 2014. The scholarship recipient is expected to contribute a research essay on the role of Parliament in governance, the policy process and the wider community.

Looking to the future - the Trust moves forward

AUTUMN BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Peter Thompson (right)

Below: Peter addresses MPs and Corporate guests, watched by Trust President Rt Hon David Carter and Sir John Goulter, Trust Chairman.

Peter Thompson, Speaker Rt Hon David Carter and Trust Chairman Sir John Goulter.

Continued overleaf

Website: nzbpt.org.nz

Feroz Ali - New Zealand Career College

David Backhurst - SBS Banking Group

Matt Ballard - KiwiRail

Susan Basile - Bank of New Zealand

Kate Beddoe - Vector Limited

Angus Brown - Johnson & Johnson

Mike Burns - Vodafone New Zealand

Greg Cain - Kensington Swan

Monique Cairns - NZ Racing Board

Rosemary Dixon - Contact Energy

Roger Ellis - Lion of New Zealand

Martin Gaskell - Bank of New Zealand

Ian Griffiths - GlaxoSmithKline

Chris Hannen - World Vision

Mike Hornsby - Hewlett-Packard NZ

Martin Hunter - IAG New Zealand

Erena Kara - Ngapuhi Asset Holding Co

Richard Keys - Abano Healthcare Group

Alistair Kirk - Ports of Auckland

Sue Martin - Johnson & Johnson

Hamish McHaffie - Todd Energy

John Mitchell - New Zealand Racing Board

Catherine Moores - Fronde Systems Group

Elizabeth Murray - Deloitte

Michael Musso - Grant Thornton NZ

Arron Patterson - EMC2 NZ Corporation

Lucy Riddiford - Chorus

Susan Rockliffe - Westpac

Anton Shead - Goodman New Zealand

Phillip Short - Qantas Airways

Cate Slater - Television New Zealand

Robb Stevens - Fonterra Cooperative

Group Jenee Tibshraeny - Templeton Scholar

Reuben Tucker - ANZ New Zealand

Mike White - Bauer Media Group

Edward Willis - Russell McVeagh

Kate Woodruffe - Gen-I, Telecom NZ

July Parliamentary Seminar

Above: Clerk of the House, Mary Harris, speaking on ‘The Business of the House’.

During the lunch break the Chairman of the

Trust, Sir John Goulter, took the opportunity to

present Richard Keys of the Abano

Healthcare Group with his company’s

Certificate of Corporate Membership (left);

And MP Andrew Little, who had just under-

taken a Business Study Attachment with Sanofi

New Zealand, received his Certificate of

Associate Membership.

Seminar participants at the July Seminar experienced an unusual day as Parliament went into urgency. The Select Committees scheduled for the day were cancelled and the usual tour of the floor of the Debating Chamber could not take place. Instead participants were taken to the Galleria

where the group photograph was taken (see left).

Despite the challenges of the day, the participants spoke glowingly of the programme and the senior Parliamentarians who addressed them. The interaction with MPs at lunchtime was, as always, very well received, as was viewing Question Time.

Rt Hon David Carter, Speaker of

the House, addresses

participants at the start of the day.

SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS The Trust moves forward - Continued

SURVEY OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: As part of the Board’s wish to continue to meet the needs of its Members, the Secretariat conducted a Survey of all Members of Parliament earlier this year.

The results were most encouraging with the majority of Members who completed the survey expressing satisfaction with the Trust’s programmes and level of involvement in the Corporate sector.

Suggestions were also received on possible future speakers at the Business Overview Series as well as names of companies who could be approached to join the Trust as members.

Four President’s Dinners are scheduled to be held this year. Three have now taken place, with the first Dinner in March being featured in the May Issue of the Bulletin and those in May and August are shown below.

These dinners are held specifically for CEOs of our Corporate membership to thank the members for their support and to acquaint them personally with Trust activities and future developments.

President’s Dinners

Attendees at the 15 May President's Dinner:

Left to Right: Dave Taylor (Steel & Tube Holdings), Richard Jeffrey (Counties Manukau Pacific Trust), Hon Peter Dunne MP (Leader, United Future Party), Nicky Bell (Saatchi & Saatchi), Rt Hon David Carter MP (Speaker and President of the Trust), Rt Hon John Key MP (Prime Minister), Ross Smith (SBS Bank Group), Sir John Goulter KNZM JP (Trust Chairman), Nicholas Leach (AbbVie Limited), Michael Fokker MVO JP (Trust Chief Executive), Anna Stove (GlaxoSmithKline), and Gary McDiarmid (Russell McVeagh).

MAY PRESIDENT’S DINNER

AUGUST PRESIDENT’S DINNER

Attendees at the 21 August President's Dinner:

Left to Right: Darrin Goulding (St John), Sir John Goulter KNZM JP (Trust Chairman), Steve Anderson (Foodstuffs NZ), Louise Upston MP (Senior Government Whip), Jim Quinn (KiwiRail), Rt Hon David Carter MP (Speaker and President of the Trust), Kerry Price (Grant Thornton), Hon David Parker MP (representing the Leader of the Opposition), Rob Jager (Shell New Zealand), Nancy McConnell (Trust Board member), Peter Talley (Talley’s Group), Feroz Ali (NZ Career College) and Michael Fokker MVO JP (Trust Chief Executive).

2013 Youth Parliament Competition During each Parliamentary term, the Trust has offered a competition to all Youth Members of Parliament and Members of the Youth Press Gallery. In earlier years it was solely as an essay but in 2010 the competition was broadened to a video format that was posted on YouTube.

This year’s Competition was open in four different media forms: an essay (which included graphics), a speech which was videoed, a PowerPoint presentation and, lastly, a video. No limitations were set for the length of any of the presentations.

The topic chosen was “Why does Youth Parliament matter?” with the audience the Ministry of Youth Development responsible for making the decision whether to hold a Youth Parliament in 2016.

The prizes will be $2,000 for the winner and $1,500 each for two runners-up, the money going towards future educational study.

Responses have been very encouraging with a total of 30 entries in all four media forms, the majority being essays.

Entries are currently being assessed by a panel of judges and the winners will be announced in mid-October on the Trust’s website.

A formal presentation will be made to the winners by the Speaker in Parliament in mid-November.

One-day Business Seminar for MPs A group of MPs will be visiting Progressive Enterprises at their Auckland head office in Favona this month, which promises to be a most interesting and informative day.

Each year the Trust organises such one-day visits, designed to give MPs a quick introduction to an organisation and as part of the Trust’s Business Study Programme.

The MPs will be accompanied by the Trust's Chairman Sir John Goulter and Trust Chief Executive Michael Fokker.

The report of the visit will be included in the next Bulletin.

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Rt Hon David Carter MP

Trustee Council

Hon John Banks CNZM QSO MP

Dave Chambers David Clendon MP

Hon David Cunliffe MP Hon Peter Dunne MP

Sir John Goulter KNZM JP

Murray Jack Rt Hon John Key MP

Nancy McConnell Rt Hon Winston Peters MP Sir Noel Robinson KNZM

Brian Roche

Hon Dr Pita Sharples CBE MP

David Shearer MP Lindsay Tisch MP JP

Trust Board Hon David Cunliffe MP Hon Peter Dunne MP

Sir John Goulter KNZM JP

Murray Jack Nancy McConnell Sir Noel Robinson KNZM Lindsay Tisch MP JP

Corporate Members

Abano Healthcare Group Ltd AbbVie Limited Barfoot & Thompson Bauer Media Air New Zealand Alliance Group Amway of New Zealand ANZ New Zealand Bank of New Zealand Chorus Christchurch Int Airport Cisco Systems NZ Coca-Cola Amatil Coca-Cola Oceania Contact Energy Counties Manukau Pacific Trust Deloitte EMC2 NZ Corporation Fonterra Co-operative Group Foodstuffs NZ Fronde Systems Group Genesis Energy GlaxoSmithKline NZ Goodman New Zealand Hawkins Construction Hewlett-Packard NZ Holcim New Zealand IAG New Zealand Ltd IBM New Zealand Johnson & Johnson NZ Kaipara Limited Kapiti Coast Airport Kensington Swan KiwiRail Lion of New Zealand

McDonald’s Restaurants NZ Microsoft New Zealand Newmont Waihi Gold Ngapuhi Asset Holding Co Northland Ports Corporation NZ Career College NZ Lotteries Commission NZ Oil and Gas NZ Post Group NZ Racing Board Ports of Auckland Progressive Enterprises Qantas Airways Radio New Zealand Refining New Zealand Rio Tinto Alcan NZ Russell McVeagh Saatchi & Saatchi Sanofi New Zealand SBS Bank Group Shell New Zealand (2011) SKYCITY Entertainment Group Southern Cross Healthcare St John New Zealand Steel & Tube Holdings Talley’s Group Te Ohu Kaimoana Telecom New Zealand Television New Zealand Todd Corporation Vector Veolia Water Services Vodafone New Zealand Westpac World Vision New Zealand

Associate Members

Jacinda Ardern MP

Shane Ardern MP

Carol Beaumont MP

David Bennett MP

Hon Chester Borrows MP

Hon Simon Bridges MP

Steffan Browning MP

Hon Gerry Brownlee MP

Rt Hon David Carter MP

Dr David Clark MP

David Clendon MP Hon Clayton Cosgrove MP Hon David Cunliffe MP Hon Lianne Dalziel MP

Jacqui Dean MP

Hon Ruth Dyson MP

Darien Fenton MP

Julie Anne Genter MP

Paul Goldsmith MP

Hon Jo Goodhew MP

Hon Tim Groser MP

Hon Nathan Guy MP

John Hayes ONZM MP

Hon Phil Heatley MP

Chris Hipkins MP

Dr Paul Hutchison MP

Hon Shane Jones MP

Hon Annette King MP

Colin King MNZM MP

Melissa Lee MP

Andrew Little MP

Moana Mackey MP

Hon Nanaia Mahuta MP

Hon Trevor Mallard MP

Hon Todd McClay MP

Ian McKelvie MP Sue Moroney MP

Alfred Ngaro MP

Hon Damien O’Connor MP

Dr Rajen Prasad MP

Grant Robertson MP

Ross Robertson MP

Jami-Lee Ross MP Eric Roy MP JP

Katrina Shanks MP

Scott Simpson MP JP

Su’a William Sio MP

Hon Dr Nick Smith MP

Hon Maryan Street MP

Lindsay Tisch MP JP Hon Anne Tolley MP JP

Hon Chris Tremain MP

Louise Upston MP

Holly Walker MP

Louisa Wall MP

Hon Kate Wilkinson MP

Hon Michael Woodhouse MP

President

Michael Fokker MVO JP Chief Executive Diana Litton Programme Coordinator

Secretariat

Chairman

Sir John Goulter KNZM JP

A large number of applications have been received from Members of Parliament this year to undertake Business Study Attachments with one of the Trust’s Corporate members. For some MPs it has been a second or third Attachment, and for some of the Corporate members a new experience for those who have not hosted a Member of Parliament before.

MPs who have completed their Attachments this year are:

Ian McKelvie (below) during his attachment to KiwiRail is pictured here with Locomotive Engineer Charlie Pou, about to depart for Auckland. In the back-ground are 10 brand new DL locomotives that had just arrived. Ian wrote “This

was a fascinating insight into the company. The strength of the organisation impressed me. Everyone had a real purpose and was fully committed to what they did. It is an expensive business to run but most certainly has a future in our export led economy.”

Right - Julie Anne Genter who also undertook an attachment with KiwiRail, wrote “I learned even more than I expected, about all elements of the business, in a very short time frame. It was an enormous privilege to get such a broad and in-depth view of the various elements of the business, and I am excited about the future of KiwiRail.”

Below - Andrew Little visiting Sanofi New Zealand with Alan Carter, Country manager and David Pullar, Genzyme Govt Relations manager. Pictured left,

they are seen discussing rare diseases and genzymes role in their treatment.

Louisa Wall recently undertook an attachment with the Hawkins Group and is seen here with Nancy McConnell Manager Communications Brand and

Community Hawkins Group (left) and Gary Walker Auckland Region Manager.

Right above - Holly Walker at her recent attachment

with Kiwibank spoke highly of her experience learning about banking and

of Kiwibank’s unique role and position in the NZ community in particular.

Business Study Attachments

Jacinda Ardern - Bank of NZ Katrina Shanks - Johnson & Johnson Steffan Browning - Fonterra Scott Simpson - Newmont Waihi Gold Julie Anne Genter - KiwiRail Holly Walker - NZ Post/ Kiwibank Andrew Little - Sanofi NZ Louisa Wall - Hawkins Group. Ian McKelvie - KiwiRail

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