Derek Fox

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Derek Fox (broadcaster)

Derek Tinia Fox (born 1947) is a New Zealand broadcaster, commentator, publisher, journalist and Māori Party candidate in several elections. He was the Mayor of Wairoa from 1995 to 2001.

Born in Auckland, he grew up 45 km east of Wairoa on the Mahia Peninsula. He is of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou descent. He worked for Television New Zealand to 1986, where he fronted Koha a Māori current affairs programme, and produced Te Karere a Māori news programme from 1983. He then launched Mana magazine and Rotorua-based Mana Māori News. He also became the chair of the Māori Broadcasters Association, which was later renamed Ngā Aho Whakaari.

Next he was Chairman of the board of Māori TV. Despite hiring and then firing (for falsifying his CV) Canadian John Davy as chief executive, Prime Minister Helen Clark said he was the pre-eminent Māori broadcaster of his generation.

Fox stood for the Māori Party in the 2008 election, in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti seat against Labour’s Parekura Horomia, the Māori affairs minister (who he had run against as an independent in 1999). His candidacy was unsuccessful.

Derek Fox (Canadian politician)

Gordon Derek Fox (born December 27, 1950) is an insurance agent and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993.

Political career

Fox ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the 1986 Alberta general election as a candidate for the New Democrats. He won the electoral district of Vegreville defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Ron Rudkowsky and two other candidates in a hotly contested race. He ran for a second term in office in the 1989 Alberta general election winning an increased plurality defeating two other candidates. Vegreville was abolished in the boundary redistribution of 1993. Fox ran for re-election in the new electoral district of Vegreville-Viking. He was defeated running in the general election held that year, losing his seat to Progressive Conservative candidate Ed Stelmach.

Late life

After being defeated from provincial politics, Fox joined Manulife Financial and became operator of the company's branch in Vegreville. He also runs the Warwick Hall.

Deryck Fox

J. Deryck Fox is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s, and coach of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s playing at representative level for Great Britain, England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, Western Suburbs Magpies, Bradford Northern, Batley Bulldogs, and Rochdale Hornets, as a goal-kicking scrum-half/halfback, i.e. number 7, and coaching at club level for Rochdale Hornets, Shaw Cross Sharks ARLFC, Batemans Bay Tigers, and Dewsbury Celtic. He attended St John Fisher's RC High School in Dewsbury.

Playing career

International honours

Deryck Fox won caps for England while at Bradford Northern in 1995 against Wales, and France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Featherstone in 1985 against France (2 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches), in 1986 against France (2 matches), and Australia (2 matches), in 1989 against New Zealand (sub), in 1990 against Papua New Guinea (sub), in 1991 against Papua New Guinea (sub), in 1992 against France (sub), and while at Bradford Northern in 1992 Australia.