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==Early life==
Moore was born in 1949 in [[Whakatane]], [[Bay of Plenty]], New Zealand, the son of Audrey Evelyn (née Goodall) and Alan Moore.<ref>
==Political career==
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===Leader of the Opposition===
{{see also|Shadow Cabinet of Mike Moore}}
He led the Official Opposition until 1993 and was spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Trade until 1999.<ref name="WTO bio"/> He attempted a rejuvenation of Labour's ranks with several important portfolio shifts, including giving the finance portfolio to [[Michael Cullen (politician)|Michael Cullen]], designed to blunt the growth of the newly formed [[Alliance (New Zealand political party)|Alliance]] party (which was made up largely of Labour dissidents).<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |title=Labour line-up |date=6 December 1991 |page=5 }}</ref> He then led Labour in the {{NZ election link|1993}} where he managed to gain 16 seats, coming within two seats of clinching an unlikely victory just three years after the landslide 1990 defeat.<ref name="Labour coup">{{cite news|last1=Quin|first1=Phil|title=Phil Quin: The anatomy of a failed Labour coup|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10716608|accessdate=15 May 2015|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|date=2 April 2011}}</ref> On the night of the 1993 election he delivered a televised speech (dubbed the "long, cold night" speech) later described by political scientist Jack Vowles as "damaging" and "more appropriate for a decisive Labour win than a narrow defeat."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vowles |first1=Jack |title=Voters' Victory?: New Zealand's First Election under Proportional Representation |date=2013 |publisher=Auckland University Press |isbn=9781869407131 |chapter=Countdown to MMP |page=29 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PEFeAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29}}</ref>
Moore said he was pleased with the result, thinking Labour was back in striking distance of forming a government in the future, and believed the result might give him a chance to retain the leadership. However he was deposed as leader at the first post-election caucus meeting by his deputy [[Helen Clark]]. His replacement did not surprise him, but he felt begrudged that he was given little appreciation, thinking he would "... have got thanks – then axed [but] the axe went before even 'thank yous'."{{sfn|Espiner|Watkin|2017|p=56}} The irony was not lost on Moore that Clark's allies had installed candidates in the seats Labour had picked up from his campaign who then voted to replace him, making his success the architect of his own downfall.<ref name="Labour coup"/>
===Backbencher===
After the 1993 referendum to adopt [[mixed-member proportional representation]] (MMP) Moore considered forming a break-away party, the [[New Zealand Democratic Coalition]], for the [[1996 New Zealand general election|1996 MMP election]], but then decided against it. He received countless letters in support of a new party, but despite his ousting as leader, he felt too much affinity to the Labour Party to ever leave it.{{sfn|Espiner|Watkin|2017|p=84}} He won his seat in the 1996 election, obtaining more than twice as many votes as the next-highest candidate, National's [[Jim Gerard]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_1996/pdf/6.1%20Waimakariri%2052.pdf |title=Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – Waimakariri |accessdate=6 July 2013
Also after losing the leadership, Moore defended the record Fourth Labour Government and was critical of subsequent leaders of the party denigrating its record. He thought that Clark and Cullen's semi-repudiation of Rogernomics was conducted purely to make themselves look better and labelled their remembrances as 'manufactured history'.{{sfn|Espiner|Watkin|2017|pp=68–69, 73}} Clark performed poorly in opinion polls after becoming leader and by early 1996 there was an active movement within Labour to replace her either with Moore of frontbencher [[Phil Goff]].<ref name="Labour coup"/> Clark stared down the challengers and remained leader when Cullen shifted his allegiance to Clark after becoming deputy leader. Moore, who still held leadership ambitions, refused to comment on the positional change, saying only that he did not contest the deputy leadership because he was "a leader, not a deputy" but was eventually promoted to the frontbench by Clark in a surprise move.<ref>{{cite news |author=Kirk, Jeremy |work=[[The Press]] |title=Clark secure as rebels pledge fealty; Cullen picked as Caygill quits |date=12 June 1996 }}</ref>
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* ''On Balance: a Labour Look at Regional, Community and Town Development''<ref name="DPMC">{{cite web |title=The Right Honourable Michael Moore, ONZ, AO |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/honours/recipients/moore-right-honourable-michael-kenneth-onz-ao-australia |website=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=2 February 2020}}</ref>
* ''Beyond Today''<ref name="WTO bio"/>
* ''A Pacific Parliament: A Pacific Idea—an Economic and Political Community for the South Pacific'' (Asia Pacific Books, 1982)<ref>{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Mike |date=1982 |title=A Pacific Parliament: A Pacific Idea : an Economic and Political Community for the South Pacific |url=https://books.google.
* ''Hard Labour'' (Penguin Books, 1987)<ref>{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Mike |date=1987 |title=Hard Labour |url=https://books.google.
*''Children of the Poor: How poverty could destroy New Zealand's future'' (Canterbury University Press, 1996)<ref name="WTO bio" /><ref name="DPMC" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engage/cup/catalogue/books/children-of-the-poor-how-poverty-could-destroy-new-zealands-future.html|title=Children of the Poor: How poverty could destroy New Zealand's future|website=The University of Canterbury|language=en-nz|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref>
*''A Brief History of the Future: Citizenship of the Millennium'' (Shoal Bay Press, 1998)<ref>{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Mike |date=September 1998 |title=A brief history of the future: citizenship of the millennium |url=https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryoffu0000moor |url-access=registration |location= |publisher=Shoal Bay Press |isbn=}}</ref><ref name="WTO bio" />
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