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  • Lockwood Smith starts London job with a song

    Smith has kicked off his new career as High Commissioner to Britain in typically flamboyant style, opening a function with the theme song to an Australian children's TV show. The veteran MP, who was Speaker until January, hosted a welcoming function in the   from Stuff.co.nz Read more »

  • Here's Humphrey star a top diplomat

    to high office. At the New Zealand High Commission in London today, newly appointed Kiwi high commissioner to the UK Dr Lockwood Smith broke into song as he recounted his background as a former star of the hit Australian children's show. Dr Lockwood has had   from NEWS.com.au Read more »

  • MPs right to be upset at Speaker's rulings - Peters

    Peters says Parliament's new Speaker may have to be replaced if his performance does not improve. David Carter replaced Lockwood Smith, who was appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom earlier this year. Both have been National Party MPs. There were   from Radio New Zealand Read more »

  • Lockwood Smith begins role as UK High Commissioner  (Source: ONE News) Lockwood Smith begins role as UK High Commissioner

    Smith at a powhiri held for him on his first day on the job at NZ House as High Commissioner. - Source: ONE News New Zealand's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has started his first day on the job. Lockwood Smith was welcomed to the post with a   from TVNZ Read more »

  • John Dickson Agent's 17-year fight for justice

    the whole matter," he told the Sunday Star-Times last year. In his valedictory speech to Parliament, veteran MP and speaker Lockwood Smith remembered the seven years of work he put into a radical new tax scheme, work that if done in a university, he said,   from Stuff.co.nz Read more »

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About Lockwood Smith

Alexander Lockwood Smith (born 13 November 1948) is a New Zealand politician who has been the 28th Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2008. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party and has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1984. He represented first the Kaipara electorate and then Rodney, and has held a number of Cabinet positions; he was Minister of Education from 1990 to 1996 and subsequently served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister for International Trade, and Associate Minister of Finance.

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