26 Facts About Tim Macindoe

Timothy Harley Macindoe was born on 1961 and is a New Zealand politician who has served as a member of the Hamilton City Council for the East Ward since 2024.

Tim Macindoe served as the Minister of Customs for the final six months of the Fifth National Government.

Tim Macindoe was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and boarded at King's College for his secondary education.

Tim Macindoe later attended Otago University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History.

Tim Macindoe taught at several independent schools, including Christ's College, King's College, and St Peter's School in Cambridge, where he was deputy principal for six years.

Tim Macindoe has held roles in retail, agriculture and as a prison tutor.

In 2009, Tim Macindoe completed his second degree; an LLB from the University of Waikato.

Tim Macindoe made four unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament before finally seeing success at the 2008 general election.

In 1996, Tim Macindoe unsuccessfully stood for United New Zealand in the Karapiro electorate and was ranked 11th on the United party list.

Tim Macindoe thereafter joined the National Party and stood unsuccessfully in 1999,2002, and 2005.

Tim Macindoe continued sitting on the social services committee and chaired the justice committee until 2013, when he was selected as the National Party's junior whip and transferred to the education and science committee.

Tim Macindoe held these positions for six months until the government was defeated at the 2017 general election.

Tim Macindoe was shadow attorney general between 2019 and 2020, sat on the education and workforce and the justice committee, and was deputy chair of the foreign affairs, defence and trade committee.

In late April 2020, Tim Macindoe drew media attention and public criticism when he joked about pushing women off balconies during a live-stream session of the justice select committee during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand.

Tim Macindoe subsequently apologised for his remarks but insisted he was joking.

At the 2020 general election, Tim Macindoe was defeated in Hamilton West by Labour's Gaurav Sharma by a margin of 6,267 votes.

At number 23 on the National Party list, Tim Macindoe was ranked too low to return to Parliament on the party list.

Tim Macindoe did not seek the National Party nomination for the 2022 Hamilton West by-election, which was held following Sharma's resignation.

Tim Macindoe was elected to the East Ward of the Hamilton City Council in a February 2024 by-election, replacing Ryan Hamilton after he was elected to parliament.

Alongside his council role, Tim Macindoe took up a paid lobbyist position for the University of Waikato, advocating local councils to support the creation of the university's medical school.

Tim Macindoe is married to Anne Macindoe, and they have two daughters.

Outside Parliament, Tim Macindoe is a parishioner at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Forest Lake; and he is actively involved with a large number of organisations within his electorate including Orchestra Central Trustee, Waikato Chamber of Commerce, Hamilton Citizens' Band Society Vice-president, Epilepsy Waikato Charitable Trust, and NZ Agricultural Fieldays Society.

Tim Macindoe participated on the committee that planned Hamilton's 150th anniversary celebrations in 2014.

Tim Macindoe was a supporter of the Hamilton Hydrotherapy Pool Trust and dyed his hair blue in a successful fundraiser for the project in 2008.

Tim Macindoe opposed the Crimes Amendment Bill and supported the "no" vote in the corporal punishment referendum, 2009.

Tim Macindoe opposed the Marriage Amendment Act 2013, which legalized same-sex marriage in New Zealand.