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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-810/
- Published: 2023-08-23T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-23T02:33:06.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

Being useless obviously, never factored into his thinking?

> Being male has cost him and many other National MPs a high slot [on their party list](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2023-christopher-luxon-unveils-list/GL4GFUFMIRHYLISNHYCZS2OPFM/?ref=goodoil.news), outgoing Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse believes.  
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> On his first interview since quitting his party’s list, National’s Dunedin candidate said he feared that New Zealand’s sixth-largest city was being abandoned by his party, and that the way National was behaving meant it was shedding party votes to Act New Zealand.  
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> “Firstly, there was a contest between diversity and experience and in my case, diversity won,” Woodhouse told the Otago Daily Times when asked about why he was given such a low position on National’s list.  
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> “Secondly, I think that there was a bit of naivety about using the list rankings as a process to send messages, and thirdly I think that there were other factors at play working against me that I won’t elaborate on but I wasn’t part of the caucus club, that’s for sure. I have a habit of saying things without fear or favour.”  
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> Woodhouse’s political world came crashing down at 1.15pm Saturday.  
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> While delivering flyers in Waverley he received a call from the party’s regional electorate chairperson to tell him where he was situated on National’s list.  
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> While he would not specify what number he was given, Woodhouse said it was well below what he had expected, even as a worst-case scenario.  
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> “It was pretty clear to me that on the number that I was given that it was probably no better than a 45 per cent chance of getting back into Parliament, much less being in the thinking of the leadership for a ministerial post.  
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> “Really, the decision was made for me by that decision by the leadership.”  
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> NZ Herald

[Read more here](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-2023-outgoing-dunedin-mp-michael-woodhouse-contemplates-his-future/5LPX5ZP2JZFWBM56KK2ZLHYQ7U/?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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