Nominations for the inaugural Royters 'New Zealander of the Year' have now closed and voting will run until December 31 2009. Thank you to all who made nominations.

The nominees are listed in the voting box to the right sidebar – no celebrities or sports stars for us! All nominees are people who have made contributions in their own way to making New Zealand a better and freer country. They are: Garth McVicar, Denis Adam, Margaret Heaney, Hon Hugh Templeton, Joan & Graeme Crawshaw, Johan Verhagen, and David Farrar.

If you would like to read more about out nominees, click through to http://www.roy.org.nz/royters/royters-new-zealander-the-year.