a part of the leadership team. At some point in 2019, Moffett founded a political party called the New NZ party (later renamed Real NZ). Journalist Alex Braae described the New NZ party in May 2019 as "a vehicle for David Moffett which is at this stage is unregistered, and mainly appears to consist of aggressive social media posting." The party announced former United Future MP Marc Alexander as its leader. The party's policies were nationalist and socially conservative, opposing "open borders, interference by the UN, Government excess, waste and interference, far left and right ideologies, the PC brigade, tyranny by minorities, unlawful religious beliefs and terrorism". On its website, it has used the slogan "WWG1WGA", also used by the QAnon conspiracy theory. In March 2020, the New Zealand Outdoors Party announced that it had joined forces with the Real NZ Party, and that David Moffett had become a board member for the Outdoors Party and was now its executive director. In a press release, Moffett said "it became apparent that the Real NZ Party was not going to reach the 500 member threshold to form a party" and so the party talked with the Outdoors Party. The Real NZ Party also offered to endorse the New Zealand Public Party and to allow the Public Party to take on any of Real NZ's policies. Despite considering running for parliament himself in 2019, Moffett did not contest the 2020 election himself either on a party list or for an electorate. Rugby Rules In August 2020, Moffett launched a new version of rugby called 'Rugby Rules'. The rules of Rugby Rules were written mainly by Moffett, with assistance from rugby union player Enrique Rodriguez. It follows his frequent criticism of modern rugby, both the rules of the game and the structure of professional competitions. References 1947 births Living people Australian chief executives Australian rugby league administrators National Rugby League chief executives Rugby union chairmen and investors New Conservative Party (New Zealand) politicians