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Member of Parliament · National

Barbara Kuriger

Travel and accommodation, from the disclosures that name them. An MP’s travel is published by the Parliamentary Service; a minister’s travel is published separately by the Department of Internal Affairs. Both are shown here, and not added into a single headline, because they are two different bills.

$191,705
MP travel & accommodation
#29 of 136 MPs
National
Party

MP travel & accommodation

Expenses →

Over 8 quarters, as the Parliamentary Service disclosed it.

$111,715
Accommodation
$79,989
Travel
$191,705
Total
31 Mar31 Dec

Declared interests

Register of Interests · J.7

What Barbara Kuriger declared in the Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests, as at 31 January 2026. The register records that an interest exists, not its value.

Company directorships and controlling interests

  • Taranaki Growth Spurt Limited (not trading) – operated gym franchise
  • Shortland Farm Management Limited – general partner for limited liability
  • partnership; dairy farming
  • Monster Ernie Farm Management Limited – general partner for limited
  • liability partnership; dairy farming
  • Kuriger Trustees Limited – trustee company

Company and business interests

  • Greenplan (Wild Boar) 1999 Forestry Partnership – forestry venture
  • Fonterra Limited – dairy processing
  • Livestock Improvement Limited – bovine genetics
  • Shortland Farm Limited Partnership – dairy farm business
  • Shortland Farm No 2 Limited Partnership – dairy farm business
  • Oxbow Dairies Limited – dairy farm business
  • Ravensdown – fertiliser and animal health products

Trusts

  • B J Kuriger Family Trust (trustee)
  • L S Kuriger Family Trust (beneficiary)
  • L S & B J Kuriger Trusts Partnership (both above trusts are partners in this
  • entity; trustee)

Real property

  • Family home (owned by L S & B J Kuriger Trusts Partnership) – New
  • Plymouth
  • Family home (owned by L S & B J Kuriger Trusts Partnership) – Te
  • Awamutu
  • Dairy farm (owned by Shortland Farm Limited Partnership) – Ōpunake
  • Dairy farm (owned by Shortland Farm No 2 Limited Partnership) –
  • Ōpunake
  • Dairy farm grazing unit (joined leasehold interest) – Ōpunake
  • Apartment (owned by L S & B J Kuriger Trusts Partnership) – Wellington

Retirement schemes

  • Fisher Funds KiwiSaver Plan

Debts owed to the member

  • L S & B J Kuriger Trusts Partnership – loan account owing via trusts
  • partnership*
  • Taranaki Growth Spurt Limited – loan account
  • * Interest rate payable in relation to the debt is less than the normal market
  • interest rate that applied at the time the debt was incurred or, if the terms of the
  • debt have been amended, at the time of the amendment.

Debts owed by the member

  • ANZ Bank – mortgage