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Roger Douglas
Sir Roger Owen Douglas (born 5 December 1937) is a retired New Zealand politician who served as a minister in two Labour governments. He is best known for his prominent role in the radical economic restructuring of the 1980s, when the Fourth Labour Government's economic policy became known as Rogernomics. In 1993, Douglas and Derek Quigley founded the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (the forerunner of the ACT New Zealand Party). He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1990 and returned to Parliament as an ACT backbencher in 2008 before retiring in 2011.
== Early life and background ==
Douglas was born on 5 December 1937. His family had strong ties with the trade-union movement, and actively engaged in politics. His grandfather, William Theophilus "Bill" Anderton, (1891–1966), was a left-wing Methodist lay preacher and small business owner in Birmingham, England, who migrated to New Zealand with his wife in 1921.〔"Rogernomics: Is There Better Way? Simon Collins, (1987)〕〔Collins, (1987).〕 Anderton served as MP for Eden from 1935–1946, then as MP for from 1946–1960. He was Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1957–1960 Second Labour Government, establishing the Arts Council.〔Collins, (1987)〕 Roger Douglas's father, Norman Vazey Douglas, (1910–1985), a former trade union secretary, served as MP for from 1960–1975, and as opposition spokesman for labour, education, and social security from 1967–1972.〔 Roger's brother Malcolm Douglas was briefly Labour MP for 1978–1979.
Douglas grew up in a state house in Ewenson Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. He attended Ellerslie Primary School, excelling in arithmetic and sports. Douglas attended Auckland Grammar School between 1950 and 1955, where he was a prefect and an avid cricket and rugby player.〔 Douglas had a summer job at the Auckland accounting firm Mabee, Halstead and Kiddle, accepting a job there at the end of 1952.〔 He gained a degree in accountancy from the University of Auckland in 1957. Afterwards, he was hired by Bremworth Carpets in South Auckland as company secretary. He married and moved to Mangere in 1961, becoming President of the Manukau Labour Electorate Committee.〔 He began to run the Bremworth division individually after the company's sale to UEB in the mid-1960s.〔 He also served as campaign manager for successful Labour candidate Colin Moyle in 1963.〔
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