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Phil Amos (Phillip Albert Amos) was born on 4 September, 1925 in Wanganui, New Zealand, is a New Zealand politician (1925-2007). Discover Phil Amos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 4 September 1925
Birthday 4 September
Birthplace Wanganui, New Zealand
Date of death 8 June, 2007
Died Place Auckland, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1925

Phillip Albert Amos (4 September 1925 – 8 June 2007) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Amos was born in Wanganui in 1925, the son of John Amos.

He received his education at Otorohanga District High School, later renamed as Otorohanga College.

He attended Auckland Teachers College followed by the University of Auckland.

He was a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) pilot in the Pacific in World War II.

1946

After demobilizing in 1946 he went to Teachers' College and University, where he studied both anthropology and politics.

He had a passion for human rights and was strongly opposed to racism, in particular the apartheid system in South Africa and Rhodesia.

1949

This lead him to sign up with the Princes Street branch of the Labour Party in 1949 contrasting with the strong National Party affiliation in his father's family.

As a teacher Amos aspired to be his own boss and chose to work at a sole-charge school to avoid taking orders from a principal.

He then won promotion to a two-teacher school which he could also be principal of.

He later taught at intermediate and secondary schools as well.

Amos and his wife Jill worked as teachers in isolated communities where they were confronted by the challenges facing Maori and Pacific people due to rural isolation and later urban migration.

There they taught student notions such as non-violence, racial equality and belief in parental involvement in schools.

Such attitudes were then uncommon in New Zealand education circles.

In he stood for Labour in the Rodney electorate, coming second.

He was then elected the Member of Parliament for Manurewa from defeating cabinet minister Leon Götz.

He was appointed Labour's education spokesperson by leader Norman Kirk while the party was in opposition.

1972

Kirk appointed Amos Minister of Education in the Third Labour Government from 1972 to 1975, and also served as the last Minister of Island Affairs from 1972 to 1974.

As Minister of Education, he passed the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act which drove the integration of Catholic and private schools with a system which provided them with state funding and worked towards the reduction of class sizes.

Allowing private schools to voluntarily integrate with the state system without sacrificing their particular character was seen as outside the traditional Labour Party policy sphere.

The integration policy was seen as the governments greatest contribution in the education space.

Other accomplishments as Minister of Education were doubling the number of children enrolled in pre-school education, expanding community education and technical institute services, increasing opportunity for students to learn Maori, reducing class sizes and provided a standard bursary for all students in tertiary studies.

In he was defeated in an upset in the normally safe Labour seat by Merv Wellington.

1974

Amos found Kirk's leadership and vision inspiring and thought his death in 1974 to be a crushing blow to Labour.

1975

Consequently, he was unsurprised when in 1975 the Labour government was defeated by the National Party.

1976

In July 1976, less than a year after he had lost his parliamentary seat and cabinet post, he protested the visit of the 20,000 tonne American cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) in his small yacht the Dolphin.

He impeded its entry to Auckland Harbour.

The cruiser was forced to stop mid-stream to allow grappling hooks to be thrown to pull the Dolphin clear.

Afterwards Amos was arrested and charged with obstruction.

He was convicted, but the conviction was overturned on appeal by criminal defense lawyer David Lange.

Amos' protest instantly became a headline-grabbing piece of political drama from which he took a lot of personal satisfaction at bringing public attention to the anti-nuclear issue.

Lange would later become Prime Minister and passed a law banning the visit by nuclear propelled or armed ships with Amos' support.

As a friend of the Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, he accepted an invitation to be an education advisor as well as a Swahili interpreter/translator, assisting the local police, courts and other government agencies.

1977

He lived in a remote part of Tanzania from 1977 to 1988.

1978

In a brief return to Auckland in late 1978 he stated that the impacts of the Muldoon government continuing sporting links with South Africa were leading to people in Africa believing that New Zealanders were racist.

He was so dismayed by the view of New Zealand in the area that he wrote a letter to the editor to a widely circulated English language newspaper in his area denying that the people in New Zealand supported the Apartheid system in South Africa.

1979

His wife Jill went back to New Zealand in 1979 and they later divorced.

He then worked as a lecturer at a teachers' college before moving with his second wife, a fellow lecturer Odilia, to work a farm near her home village on the remote slopes of Mount Kilamanjaro (even climbing to the top himself).

He made a living by operating a flour mill he built to serve local farmers and also grew bananas, avocados, pineapple, corn, and vegetables on the one hectare plot they owned.

Amos said the period in his life as one of finding new challenges which met his personal philosophies