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| | New Zealand's ICT Starts There!,Hon. Jim Anderton, Minister for Economic, Industry, and Regional Development, New ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Jim Anderton is New Zealand's Minister for Economic, Industry, and Regional Development, Associate Minister of Health, and leader of the Progressive Party, the minority coalition partner in the current Labour/Progressive New Zealand government. |
 | | He was Deputy Prime Minister in the previous government, November 1999 - July 2002.The Ministry of Economic Development was set up at Mr Anderton's initiative as a condition of joining the coalition government in 1999. |
 | | Before entering Parliament he was a City Councillor and regional Councillor for Auckland for some twenty years, and was, for thirteen years, the Chief Executive of Anderton Holdings, a manufacturing engineering company. |
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