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High-profile businessman Sir Bob Jones has died

  • Sir Bob Jones, a prominent New Zealand businessman and politician, died peacefully at home on Friday, 2025-05-02, surrounded by family.
  • Jones founded the New Zealand Party in 1983 to oppose Robert Muldoon's National government and promote free-market and anti-defence policies.
  • His party won 12 percent of the 1984 vote, splitting the National vote and helping David Lange's Labour Party secure a landslide election victory.
  • Jones amassed a multi-billion-dollar commercial property portfolio spanning Auckland, Wellington, and Glasgow, highlighted by his founding of Robert Jones Investments in 1964.
  • Jones' complex legacy includes his impact on New Zealand's neoliberal politics, frequent media presence, and divisive public reputation as noted by historian Paul Moon.
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scoop.co.nz broke the news in Wellington, New Zealand on Thursday, May 1, 2025.
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