ACT: most likely newcomers

ACT

Stephen Franks

standing for Rongotai

Age: 48

Education: BA/LLB

Occupation: Lawyer

Policy priority: Cut politically correct regulation.
Ensure crime does not pay, with
better-enforced law but less of it.

Highlight: Reforming Stock Exchange listing rules
in 1989 to protect investors from rorts.
Climbing Mt Cook last year was the "highest" achievement.

Political hero: Sir Roger Douglas.

Leisure: Skiing

Marital status: Married, four children.



Penny Webster

standing for Rodney

Age: 52

Occupation: Farmer/teacher.

Education: Sacred Heart Girls (Hamilton), Teachers College.

Policy priority: Cutting red-tape and bureaucracy,
especially from local government and the Resource
Management Act.

Highlight: Establishing and running for the last
decade the national BNZ Sharemilker of
the Year competition.

Political hero: Sir Roger Douglas, for his courage.

Leisure: Listening to music, reading and working

On the farm.

Marital status: Married, mother of four.



Gerry Eckhoff

standing for Otago

Age: 52.

Occupation: Farmer, sheep and beef.

Education: Selected as Kellogg scholar at Lincoln
for year-long course.

Policy priority: Restoration of profitability to
rural sector by helping to remove unnecessary
RMA red-tape.

Highlight: Haven't had anything exceptional but
developed a property in Southland.

Political hero: Franklin Roosevelt, people able to put
complex issues in a simple way. No
NZ political heroes.

Leisure: Golf, keen rugby fan.

Marital status: Married, father of four



Dick Quax

standing for Pakuranga

Age: 51

Occupation: Part-owner of a sports management
company.

Education: Hamilton Boys High School

Policy priority: Getting the education system
working properly.

Highlight: Winning Commonwealth and Olympic
running medals.

Political hero: Abraham Lincoln.

Leisure: running

Marital status: Married, two children

Kathryn Asare

standing for Ohariu-Belmont

Age: 48.

Occupation: Public relations/communications
consultant.

Education: BA (philosophy), Masters of Business
Studies, both from Massey University

Policy priority: Civil defence and defence
preparedness, family law, improved education outcomes.

Highlight: Achieving change through communications.

Political hero: George Washington.

Leisure: Gardening.

Marital status: Married, one child