|
Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon (25 September 19215 August 1992) served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing National Party. Muldoon had been a Minister of Finance (a portfolio he also held while Prime Minister) and prominent member of the National Party and MP for the Tamaki electorate in Auckland prior to becoming party leader in 1974. During his time as a member of parliament and as Prime Minister, Muldoon was responsible for responding to a number of major challenges to the New Zealand economy, including the introduction of decimal currency in 1967, mini budgets, national superannuation, wage and price freezes, inflation and Think Big policies of the third National Government he led. Muldoon was a polarising figure and has been described as a "bully", an "enigma" and "a strong believer in the battler, the little man, the ordinary citizen and his or her rights".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Official Information Act and Privacy )〕 ==Early life and family== Robert David Muldoon was born on 25 September 1921, to parents James Henry Muldoon and Amie Rusha Muldoon (née Browne) in Auckland. At age five Muldoon slipped while playing on the front gate, damaging his cheek and resulting in a distinctive scar. When Muldoon was aged eight, his father was admitted to Auckland Mental Hospital at Point Chevalier,〔 where he died nearly 20 years later in 1946. This left Muldoon's mother to raise him on her own. During this time Muldoon came under the strong formative influence of his fiercely intelligent, iron-willed maternal grandmother, Jerusha, a committed socialist. Though Muldoon never accepted her creed, he did develop under her influence a potent ambition, a consuming interest in politics, and an abiding respect for New Zealand's welfare state. Muldoon won a scholarship to attend Mount Albert Grammar School from 1933 to 1936. He left school at age 15, finding work at Fletcher Construction and then the Auckland Electric Power Board as an arrears clerk. He studied accountancy by correspondence. In 1951 Muldoon married Thea Dale Flyger, who he had met through the Junior Nationals. The couple had three children, Barbara, Jennifer and Gavin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Family album: 1950s wedding: Te Ara - Robert David Muldoon )〕 Lady Muldoon, who died at age 87 in 2015, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 New Year Honours〔(''London Gazette'' (supplement), No. 53154 ), 30 December 1992; retrieved 9 January 2013.〕 and awarded the Queen's Service Order in the 1986 New Year Honours.〔(''London Gazette'' (supplement), No. 50362 ), 30 December 1985; retrieved 9 January 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Muldoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|