Elizabeth Jane Cooney, commonly known as Liz Gunn (born 1959 or 1960),[1] founded and led the New Zealand Loyal Party.

Gunn moved to Australia after her TV presenting days ended in 2002, returning to New Zealand a decade later.

[15][16][17] When an earthquake struck the North Island in October 2021, Gunn called it Mother Nature's response to vaccination targets (which she described as "jab rape") and other covid-related policies implemented by the "tyrannical" Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.

This breached a suppression order and led to Grey being disciplined by the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal.

The judge agreed that Gunn's offence was low level but noted her "remarkable lack of insight" or remorse, as well as her "entirely self-serving" actions which served her "broader political purpose".

[39] New Zealand Loyal was a short-lived political party founded by Liz Gunn in June 2023, and which participated in the general election that year.

In the launch video she discussed conspiracies involving fluoridation, 1080, Bill Gates, "gender programming", the World Economic Forum, media, the 15-minute city urban planning concept, the "brown mafia", and odd weather patterns.

She requested donations of up to $1,000,000 and stated an ambition to have 500 people (the minimum required to register a party) join within a week.

[40] Gunn said at the time that it is a "compliment" to be called a conspiracy theorist, but by the end of the election campaign she was tired of that label.

[43][37] NZ Loyal intended to enter a 15-person party list in the 2023 New Zealand general election, but failed to register most of those individuals in time.

Some days later she instead blamed "contradictory advice" from the Electoral Commission, which the party suspected may have been deliberate sabotage.

[49] Having claimed during campaigning that her party would win 2 million votes, Gunn's response to preliminary results was that New Zealand was ruled by a "criminal cabal and at the very least, utter bullies.