Jacqui Dean
Jacqui Dean | |
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Otago | |
Assumed office 8 November 2005 | |
Preceded by | David Parker |
Majority | 1995 |
Personal details | |
Born | Palmerston North, New Zealand | May 13, 1957
Political party | National Party |
Spouse | Bill Dean |
Residence | Oamaru |
Website | http://jacquidean.co.nz |
Jacqueline Isobel (Jacqui) Dean (born 13 May 1957 in Palmerston North) is a New Zealand politician and the current Member of Parliament for the Otago electorate.
Early career
Dean has worked in a number of roles, including professional acting. She is perhaps best known as a former host of Play School, a children's television program, but has also acted on stage and been a radio announcer. She has also worked in the education sector.
Early in Dean's political career, she served on the Waitaki District Council, representing the Oamaru ward. She also unsuccessfully contested the mayoralty.
Member of parliament
In the 2005 election, she was the National Party's successful candidate for the Otago seat, a traditional National stronghold which had unexpectedly been taken by the Labour Party's David Parker. Dean has campaigned on water issues, saying in her maiden speech to parliament that she believed water to be the "single most important issue facing New Zealand today".[1]
She is currently a member of the Local Government and Environment Committee. Her official roles are Spokesperson, Archives New Zealand and Associate Spokesperson, Environment and RMA. She has no official role on drug issues,[2] though many of her press releases focus on drug use.[3]
Drug policy
Jacqui Dean speaks for New Zealand National Party on drug issues, although she has no official role in this capacity.[2] She has been criticised in this role for indulging in political grandstanding rather than the evidence based policy required by the Misuse of Drugs Act.[4] She has also been critisised for demonstrating a lack of credibility in falling for the Dihydrogen monoxide hoax,[5] which gained Ms Dean media attention in 2007,[6] as well as for ignoring the evidence of the relative lack of harm of BZP when compared to other legally available substances in New Zealand.[7]
'Party pills'
Jacqui Dean campaigns for the banning of the sale of "party pills", namely Benzylpiperazine (BZP), over which Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton (Progressive party) has accused her of indulging in political grandstanding, saying - "Perhaps Mrs Dean doesn't subscribe to the idea that any Government must balance the need to act promptly with its responsibilities to act fairly and follow due process, particularly where its actions affect those who are currently acting within existing legal constraints."[4] Dean's press releases refer to BZP as either "cattle drench" or a "worming agent"[8][9]. BZP was developed for this use, but has never been commercially used as a wormer or drench.[10] Evidence that Dean has used to promote the BZP ban (such as the MRINZ report on BZP) has been criticized as consisting of flawed research which does not meet peer review requirements.[11]
In November 2007 New Zealand National party MP Jacqui Dean called for the government to take action, saying - "Salvia Divinorum is a hallucinogenic drug, which has been banned in Australia, and yet here in New Zealand it continues to be sold freely." and "We’re dealing with a dangerous drug here, with the minister's wait and see approach like playing Russian Roulette with young people's lives."[12]
Alcohol and tobacco
When questioned by Maori Party MP Tariana Turia, on why she was unwilling to take the same prohibitory line on smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol as she took on BZP. Ms Dean said - "Alcohol and tobacco have been with our society for many, many years."[13] It is estimated that alcohol-related conditions account for 3.1% of all male deaths and 1.41% of all female deaths in New Zealand.[14]
Dean's Otago electorate is also home to approximately 5% of New Zealand's wine production, described by the New Zealand Wine Growers Association as a new but aggressively expanding wine area, which is now New Zealand's seventh largest wine region.[15]
Water
In August 2007, as a result of emails from ACT on Campus members based loosely around the well known Dihydrogen monoxide hoax, she sent a letter to Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton, asking if there were any plans to ban "Dihydrogen Monoxide", apparently not realizing that this is water.[6][16]
In September 2007, the Social Tonics Association of New Zealand (STANZ) called for Jacqui Dean to step down from speaking on drug issues after she demonstrated - "a lack of credibility in calling for the ban of dihydrogen monoxide (water.)" STANZ Chairman Matt Bowden said - "The DHMO hoax played on the member this week is not a joke, it highlights a serious issue at the heart of drug policy making. Ms Dean demonstrated a ‘ban anything moderately harmful’ reflex. This approach is just downright dangerous." - "Jacqui Dean has clearly demonstrated a lack of credibility in her requests to the Minister to consider banning water; She has also seriously embarrassed her National Party colleagues who can no longer have confidence in her petitions to ban BZP or anything else."[5]
When interviewed on the radio by Marcus Lush on September 14, 2007, she referred to the members of ACT on Campus as "left wingers". She also suggested that there was no lessons to be learned from her attempts to call for a ban on water.[17]
Notes
- ^ Stargate International is a New Zealand based private organisation who's stated aims include "minimising the harms associated with drug use across the community" and involves "development and bringing to market of safer, legal alternatives to addictive and dangerous drugs"
- ^ The worldwide number of alcohol related deaths is calculated at over 2,000 people per day,[18] in the US for example the number is over 300 deaths per day.[19]
- ^ Those advocating consideration of Salvia divinorum's potential for beneficial use in a modern context argue that more could be learned from Mazatec culture, where Salvia is not really associated with notions of drug taking at all and it is rather considered as a spiritual sacrament. In light of this it is argued that Salvia divinorum could be better understood more positively as an entheogen rather than pejoratively as a hallucinogen.[20]
Citations
- ^ Dean 2005.
- ^ a b New Zealand Parliament MPs - Jacqui Dean.
- ^ Dean - Press Releases
- ^ a b Anderton 2007.
- ^ a b Social Tonics Association 2007-09-15 (NZ Media).
- ^ a b Stuff 2007-09-13 (NZ Media).
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Dean 2007b.
- ^ EMCDDA 2007.
- ^ Dawson & Wodak 2007.
- ^ New Zealand National Party 2007-11-05 (NZ Media).
- ^ Stuff 2007-10-10 (NZ Media).
- ^ New Zealand Ministry of Health
- ^ NZ Wine Growers 2006.
- ^ Dean 2007a.
- ^ Dean 2007c.
- ^ Lopez 2005, Table 2.
- ^ NIAAA 2001.
- ^ Blosser (Mazatec Lessons).
References
- Anderton, Jim (2007). "Jacqui Dean indulging in political grandstanding". Progressive Party Website. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
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ignored (help) - Blosser, Brett. "Lessons in The Use of Mazatec Psychoactive Plants". The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
- Dawson, Michael; Wodak, Alex (2007). "RE. Draft report on the BZP/TFMPP and alcohol safety study" (PDF). access UTS. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
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- Dean, Jacqui (2005). "Maiden Speech to Parliament". New Zealand National Party. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
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ignored (help) - Dean, Jacqui (2007a), Letter to Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton re Dihydrogen Monoxide (PDF)
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ignored (help) - Dean, Jacqui (2007b). "Misuse of Drugs (Classification of BZP) Amendment Bill — First Reading". Order Paper, Debates (Hansard), Questions, Daily Progress, Journals. 642. New Zealand Parliament: 11714. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
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ignored (help) - Dean, Jacqui (2007c). "LUSH~talks to National MP Jacqui Dean about being caught out a long-running hoax designed to trick MP's into supporting a ban on water". LUSH Radio. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
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ignored (help) - EMCDDA (2007). "Risk Assessment Report of a new psychoactive substance: 1-benzylpiperazine (BZP)" (PDF). The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
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(help) - Goode, Dr Richard (2007). "Libertarianz: Mind Your Own Business, Jacqui Dean". Libertarianz Party. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
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ignored (help) - Lopez, Alan D (2005). "The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action". Globalization and Health. 1 (5). BioMed Central Ltd. doi:10.1186/1744-8603-1-5. PMID 15847690.
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ignored (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Table 2. Global burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors, 1990. - New Zealand Ministry of Health. "Alcohol in New Zealand". New Zealand Ministry of Health Publications. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- New Zealand Parliament MPs. "Jacqui Dean, Member for Otago, National Party". Members of Parliament. New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
- New Zealand Wine Growers (2006). "Central Otago". Otaga Region, with regional statistical tables 1997-2006. New Zealand Wine. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
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- NIAAA (2001). "Number of deaths and age-adjusted death rates per 100,000 population for categories of alcohol-related (A-R) mortality, United States and States, 1979-96". Database Resources / Statistical Tables. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Retrieved 2007-10-20.
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Siebert, Daniel. "The Legal Status of Salvia divinorum". The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
- Stargate (press release) (2006). "Party pills: BZP safety review". Scoop - Business. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
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News references
- New Zealand National Party (Press Release) (2007-11-05). "Govt Sits Back On Salvia Divinorum Sales". Scoop - Parliament.
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(help) - New Zealand National Party (Press Release) (2007-03-22). "Party pills - a bad export". Scoop - Parliament.
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(help) - Stuff (NZPA) (2007-10-10). "MP slams BZP as gateway drug, cause of psychosis". Stuff National News Story (Fairfax New Zealand).
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(help) - Social Tonics Association (Press Release) (2007-09-15). "Water banning reflex no joke". Scoop - Politics. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
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(help) - Stuff (NZPA) (2007-09-13). "National MP falls victim to water hoax". NZPA. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
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