Barry Brill
Barry Edward Brill, OBE, JP (born 22 October 1940) is a New Zealand politician and a lawyer. Brill was a parliamentary under-secretary in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981. He is a climate change sceptic and chairs the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.
Early life
Brill was born in 1940 in Te Awamutu.[1]
Member of Parliament
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1975–1978 | 38th | Kapiti | National | |
| 1978–1981 | 39th | Kapiti | National | |
Brill was a member of the National Party. He stood for the electorate of Kapiti in the 1972 election unsuccessfully, but won the seat in the 1975 election. In the 1981 election he was defeated by Margaret Shields. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Energy, Science and Technology in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981.
Brill stood for ACT New Zealand in Northland in the 2011 general election,[2] where he received 0.83% of the candidate vote.[3]
Later years
Brill was national president of the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation 1988-91, and of the Electricity Supply Association in 1993-4. He was president of the Employers & Manufacturer Association (Northern) in 1998-2001 and founding Vice-President of Business New Zealand in 2002-4.
In the 1996 New Year Honours, he was awarded an OBE for services to manufacturing.[4]
More recently, Brill has been active in challenging establishment climate scientists' views on global warming.[5][6] Since 2009, he has been Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. He was also involved with the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a charitable organisation that, according to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), appears to have been set up solely to take court action against them. The trust lost two court cases against NIWA and on both occasions, was ordered to pay costs. NIWA has put the trust into liquidation and as of 2014 was considering to pursue Brill and another trustee for the owed money.[7]
References
- ↑ Who’s Who in New Zealand, 12th edition, edited by Max Lambert p79 (1981, Reed, Wellington)
- ↑ Laking, George (17 November 2011). "Epsom and climate change". The New Zealand Herald.
- ↑ "Official Count Results -- Northland". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ New Year Honours List 1996. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- ↑ Brill, Barry (15 May 2010). "Crisis in New Zealand climatology". Quadrant Online.
- ↑ Brill, Barry (2 November 2011). "Do we need to be world leaders if it means bankruptcy?". The New Zealand Herald.
- ↑ Kilgallon, Steve (12 January 2014). "Failed doubters trust leaves taxpayers at loss". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
| New Zealand Parliament | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Frank O'Flynn |
Member of Parliament for Kapiti 1975–1981 |
Succeeded by Margaret Shields |