Michael Bassett

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Michael Bassett is the author or co-author of eleven books on New Zealand's political history. Dr Bassett was New Zealand's Minister of Health and Local Government between 1984 and 1987, and Minister of Internal Affairs, Local Government, Civil Defence and Arts and Culture between 1987 and 1990. He has taught history at the University of Auckland and was a visiting Professor of History in Canada and the United States between 1992 and 2002. He spent ten years (1994–2004) as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal.

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Michael Bassett

Michael Bassett

The Mother of all Departments: The History of the Department of Internal Affairs

Coates of Kaipara

Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography