Paul Goldsmith (politician)

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Paul Jonathan Goldsmith (born 1971) is a New Zealand historian and politician. The biographer of several leading right-wing political and business figures, he was first elected a list member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party at the 2011 election. Goldsmith is Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Minister of Justice, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Minister for Media and Communications, Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Digitising Government, and Minister for Pacific Peoples in the Sixth National Government. On 12 August 2026, he received the Minister of Defence, Minister for Veterans, Minister for Space portfolios after they were removed from Chris Penk, who had made an unsuccessful leadership challenge on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Goldsmith was an Auckland City Councillor between 2007 and 2010, and a Cabinet minister in the Fifth National Government.

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