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William Lindsay Tisch (born 9 October 1947), known as Lindsay Tisch, is a former New Zealand National Party politician.


Early life

Tisch was born in
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, New Zealand, in 1947. When he was a child, his family moved to
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. He obtained a diploma in agriculture from Lincoln College. He has worked as a farmer and a rural valuer, and was a management consultant. He was a director of
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(1991–1997) and is a member of the
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and the New Zealand Institute of Property Management. Tisch is a
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, a trustee of the Pohlen Hospital Foundation based in
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, and a member of Matamata
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.


Member of Parliament

He joined the National Party in 1966, and has held a number of senior roles in its organisational wing. In 1994 he served briefly as the party's president and was the party's campaign manager for the 1996 election. He was a member of Parliament from 1999 to 2017, when he retired. Tisch was selected to replace
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as National's candidate in the electorate of in the 1999 election. He defeated the Labour candidate by 5,000 votes. The name of the electorate was changed back to for the 2002 election and the 2005 election; Tisch was comfortably re-elected each time. The name referred to a little-known river past
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, and Tisch was successful in lobbying to have the electorate renamed after the
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. In the 2008 election, Tisch was re-elected in the recreated
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seat with a majority of 12,850 over
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. He was further re-elected in the 2011 election and 2014 election, after which he retired. In 2009, it was revealed Tisch was using a front company to maximise his accommodation allowance paid by the taxpayer. Tisch was claiming $410 a week which was paid to his property investment company, Heritage 653 Limited. Tisch was never a minister but held senior parliamentary roles in the National Party and in the House of Representatives. He was the National Party junior whip (2002–2005) and senior whip (2005–2006) before taking on roles as Deputy
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(2008–2011) and Assistant Speaker of the House (2011–2017). Under former leaders
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and
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, Tisch was briefly National Party spokesperson for small business (2002–2005), civil defence and emergency services (2003–2004), and internal affairs (2003–2005).


Political views

Tisch held conservative views and opposed same-sex marriage law reform. In 2004, Tisch voted against the
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's Marriage (Gender Clarification) Amendment Bill, a bill which would have amended the Marriage Act to define marriage as only between a man and woman. In 2012 and 2013, Tisch voted against the
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, a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry in New Zealand.


Honours

Tisch was one of the 3,632 recipients of the
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, which he received for services to the public. In the
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, Tisch was appointed a
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for services as a Member of Parliament. In the
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, his wife, Leonie, was awarded the
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, for services to health and the community.


References

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