New Zealand Young Nationals: Difference between revisions

|header10 = Elected National Team<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063638/https://youngnats.national.org.nz/your_team/|title=Your Team – NZ Young Nats|date=6 January 2018|websitearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063638/https://youngnats.national.org.nz/your_team/|archive-date=6 January 2018}}</ref>

The Young Nationals, in conjunction with other New Zealand political party youth wings,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503115257/http://www.keepit18.org.nz/|title=Home &#124; Keep It 18|date=3 May 2010|websitearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503115257/http://www.keepit18.org.nz/|archive-date=3 May 2010}}</ref> support the current purchase age for alcohol of 18 years. The Young Nationals lobbied the government in 2012 to keep the drinking age at 18 when the [[Sale and Supply of Liquor Act Amendment Bill]] was put by parliament. The Bill successfully passed. This position was reaffirmed in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://youngnats.national.org.nz/keep_it_18_pr|title=NZ Young Nats stand by Keep it 18|date=6 December 2018|website=Young Nats|access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref>

A number of other former members have taken up prominent roles across a number of sectors, such as [[Phil O'Reilly]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.businessnz.org.nz/staff/philoreilly|title=Business NZ profile: Phil O'Reilly}}</ref> as CEO of Business New Zealand, John Marshall QC as President of the New Zealand Law Society<ref>{{cite journal |title=NZLS membership and representative services |workjournal=Law Talk |issue=725 |date=16 March 2009 |url=http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/publications_and_submissions/lawtalk/2009_issues/law_talk,_issue_725/nzls_membership_and_representative_services}}</ref> and [[Paul Matheson]] as [[Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand|Mayor of Nelson]].