Sue Grey (Party Leader) West Coast Tasman Candidate
Sue Grey LLB (Hons), BSc, RSHDipPHI
Sue is a self-employed lawyer, strategist, mother of three (Sabrina, Sebastian and Ysabella) and lifelong adventurer, based in Nelson. Sue has degrees in law with honours, a degree in biochemistry and a degree in Microbiology.
Sue’s passion is inspiring, educating and empowering communities to help promote community and environmental well being and a fairer, more compassionate world.
Sue stands for:
1. Democracy, where people play an active role in decision making, knowing their views are valued and heard and enabling New Zealanders the freedom from excessive government and international interference.
2. Transparent representation and informed decision making will promote a long-term vision for protecting and promoting the interests of all New Zealanders and our children and grandchildren’s future.
Sue’s ground breaking and extensive legal career encompasses:
medicinal cannabis law reform.
challenging the legality of aerial toxin operations.
representing victims of aerial 1080 operations.
impact on electro-magnetic radiation on human health.
forcing publication of previously secret “NZ Guidelines for Judicial Conduct.”
Author of Fisheries Law.
Sue has walked, run, cycled, kayaked and photographed much of New Zealand, run marathons and ultra marathons (including the 67km Kepler Challenge) and traveled extensively, as a backpacker, with her children and for business, through much of the world. She is inspired by nature and the great New Zealand Outdoors.
Sue’s passion is inspiring, educating and empowering communities to help promote community and environmental wellbeing and a fairer, more compassionate world.
Alison Pavlovich - Taxation Spokesperson. Wellington area (Electorate TBC) and list MP Candidate
PhD (Law, University of Auckland, 2022)
LLM (Master of Laws -first class honours)
LLB (Bachelor of Laws)
BCom (Bachelor of Commerce)
Barrister & solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
Research Fellow Victoria University of Wellington
As a candidate for the Outdoors and Freedom Party, I am campaigning to bring human-centred decision-making to the governance of New Zealand. It is time to bring ordinary New Zealanders back into the forefront of decisions across every sphere of government.
Corporate influence is powerful and we need more balance in favour of people and our environment.
Why do I believe I can do this? I have worked in the corporate sector, I can speak their language, and I can readily distinguish the good from the sub-optimal. While we should never outright dismiss the many benefits that globalization and corporatism have brought to our standard of living, it is imperative at this point in time that a more skeptical lens be brought into government.
I have been working in business and academia for over 30 years, both in New Zealand and overseas. I hold degrees in commerce and law, including a PhD in law. My areas of knowledge lie in financial and legal matters, and also in the area of human rights. I have earned my stripes as a technical expert in taxation law. However, I am also a mother and a grandmother. I have lived in urban and rural environments and worked with both community organisations and international corporates. I believe my breadth of experience enhances my decision-making ability in a range of areas and also my ability to see issues from different angles and perspectives.
Ideologically, I want the people of New Zealand to enjoy healthy lives in a clean environment, with an economy that supports New Zealanders to conduct their business with each other. We can do much better than we are doing now. My aspiration is that we support each other in a thriving economy based on exchange of real goods and services, maintaining our wealth onshore and prioritising human dignity above all else.
Lester Bryant - Energy Spokesperson Auckland (Electorate TBC) & List Candidate
Originally from South Taranaki Lester grew up milking cows and fixing cars
He started his working life in early stages of the many gas and oil fields that popped up in Taranaki. From helping to build the Maui platform to commissioning gas fields in Queensland he gained significant experience and became a commissioning engineer of petrochemical plants and heavy electrical equipment. This was followed by 8 years working in the New Zealand electricity generation industry which gave him experience in high voltage plant as well.
After 15 years in the energy sector Lester moved on to owning and operating businesses. In the early 2000’s he turned his hand to creating software and has been a part of creating and improving five pieces of New Zealand created software, and two Australian software products. Lester has a love for technical innovations and has a broad knowledge to draw on when it comes to technology.
For the last 25 years he has spent most of his time within the construction industry, creating software and owning and operating quantity surveying businesses. He openly admits that he sees life in numbers and prefers to make the big decisions by calculating the numbers first.
It is Lesters ability as a number’s person and his background in energy that gives him his unique view on how the infrastructure and utilities of our country should be organised and run. He also has a pretty solid grasp on the economy and how taxation works.
The team at NZOFP value Lester for his irreverent humour and his passions. More than anything he wants to see the cost of living in our great country drop. He wants everyone who is under 45 years old to fulfil their economic potential and become independently wealthy.
“Having the spare cash to your own house, put your own kids through university, creating a cleaner country, building a better society by contributing your own money, those are now aspirations not realities for most people under 45 years old. I hate that. We need to fix that, or we lose who we really are as New Zealanders.”