Judith Collins
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"Judith Anne Collins" is a New Zealand politician and lawyer. Born in Hamilton, New Zealand/Hamilton and now residing in Auckland, she graduated in law and taxation and worked in this field from 1981 until 2002, including running her own practice for a decade. She entered New Zealand Parliament/Parliament in as an electorate MP for the centre-right New Zealand National Party/National Party, and became a Cabinet of New Zealand/Cabinet minister when National came into Fifth National Government of New Zealand/government in 2008. Her Initial ministerial roles were Minister of Police (New Zealand)/Police, Minister of Corrections (New Zealand)/Corrections and Veterans' Affairs. After the , her portfolios changed to Minister of Justice (New Zealand)/Justice (including responsibility for the Law Commission), Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and Ethnic Affairs. With a fifth-placed ranking, she was the highest ranked woman in the current Cabinet. She resigned from Cabinet on 30 August 2014 following email leaks alleging she had undermined the head of the Serious Fraud Office (New Zealand)/Serious Fraud Office when she was the Minister responsible for that organisation.

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There are a lot of new immigrants: from Korea, India, Fiji. It's not what you'd call a naturally National area.

My concern has always been his suitability as the minister for social development, and that concern remains.

The Office of the Police Commissioner has confirmed that smacking would be illegal if section 59 is repealed.

A student, parents and teachers have all laid a complaint.

If National leads the government after Saturday, I can promise the first thing on my agenda will be to get to the bottom of this.

He is a man who has shown himself not to be the Minister for Social Development or actually a minister at all.

I have no negative comments and even after the election I'll have no negative comments. No, really.

You've got to wonder what the necessity is for cars if people can't afford them. It just seems ludicrous.

[And so on through immigration and health and law and order and one she might not have anticipated. South African immigrant, John Becker, who is a first-time voter in New Zealand, says,] Is military conscription perhaps not the solution? ... It may be a solution, but it may not be the one for now.