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The Honourable
Jan Tinetti
MP
48th Minister of Education
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2023
Prime MinisterChris Hipkins
Preceded byChris Hipkins
36th Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
6 November 2020 – 1 February 2023
Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins
Preceded byTracey Martin
Succeeded byBarbara Edmonds
16th Minister for Women
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 November 2020
Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins
Preceded byJulie Anne Genter
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Labour party list
Incumbent
Assumed office
23 September 2017
Personal details
Born
Janette Rose Tinetti

1968 (age 55–56)
Hokitika, New Zealand
Political partyLabour
SpouseDavid Merton
RelationsDon Merton (father-in-law)
ChildrenTwo
ProfessionSchool principal

Janette Rose Tinetti[1] (born 1968)[2] is a New Zealand politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the New Zealand Labour Party. 48th Minister of Education of New Zeleand,

Personal life

Tinetti was born in Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island, the youngest of six children. When she was 11 months old, her family moved to Templeton, just outside Christchurch, when her father Peter Tinetti became secretary of Templeton Hospital and Training School, a institution for people with intellectual disabilities. The family lived in the only staff house, in the middle of the institution, which is where Tinetti grew up.[3] She received her secondary school education at Villa Maria College in Christchurch. She then studied at the Christchurch College of Education, from where she obtained a diploma in teaching in 1990. She became a primary school teacher and union member,[4] teaching in Southland, Greymouth and Tauranga, and spent 20 years as a primary school principal.[3] She graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Postgraduate Diploma in Education in 2013 and a Master of Education in 2016.[5][6] She was the principal of Merivale School in Tauranga and has been on the national executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute.[7] She is married to David Merton, whose father Don Merton was a noted conservationist, and the couple have two children.[8] In 2019, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, for which she had surgery, but did not need chemotherapy or radiation treatment.[9]

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2017–2020 52nd List 15 Labour
2020–present 53rd List 32 Labour

Tinetti stood for Labour in the Tauranga electorate in the 2017 election and was placed 15 on Labour's party list for that election.[10] She entered parliament via the party list, after coming second in the electorate vote, with the incumbent—the National Party's Simon Bridges—winning with a 11,252-vote margin.[11]

She contested Tauranga again in the 2020 general election and was 32nd on the 2020 Labour party list. She was elected from the party list, after coming second to Bridges in the electorate vote by a margin of 1,856 votes.[12][13]

Tinetti put her name forward for the Labour candidacy in the 2022 Tauranga by-election, after Bridges resigned from parliament,[14] and was confirmed as the candidate on 6 April.[15] She came second to the National Party candidate Sam Uffindell.

Cabinet positions

In the Cabinet formed after the 2020 election, Tinetti was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister for Women and Associate Minister of Education.[16][17]

In a cabinet reshuffle by new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins on 31 January 2023, Tinetti was promoted to the number six position in Cabinet,[18] becoming the Minister of Education and Minister for Child Poverty Reduction, while retaining her role as Minister for Women.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Daily progress for Tuesday, 7 November 2017". New Zealand Parliament. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Roll of members of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1854 onwards" (PDF). New Zealand Parliament. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  3. ^ a b Tinetti, Jan (16 November 2017). "Address in Reply". Hansard. New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  4. ^ Davison, Isaac (12 May 2017). "Former pupil's suicide prompted principal to enter politics". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Hon Jan Tinetti". Labour Party. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Graduate search". University of Canterbury. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  7. ^ Gillespie, Kiri (11 February 2017). "Labour Party's new Tauranga candidate to be voice of the people". Bay of Plenty Times. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Native bird saviour takes one last flight". Bay of Plenty Times. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  9. ^ Walters, Laura (16 January 2021). "New minister driven by injustices witnessed in mental hospital as a child". Newsroom. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Revised Labour Party List for the 2017 Election". Scoop. 15 August 2017. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Tauranga – official result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Tauranga – Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  13. ^ "2020 General Election and Referendums – Official Result Successful Candidates". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  14. ^ Cooke, Henry (15 March 2022). "Former National Party leader Simon Bridges retiring from politics, will spark byelection". Stuff. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  15. ^ "Labour candidate Jan Tinetti to run in Tauranga by-election". 1News. 6 April 2022.
  16. ^ "Ardern's new Cabinet: The full line-up and portfolios". Star News. Allied Press. 2 November 2020. Archived from the original on 3 November 2020.
  17. ^ "Ministerial List for Announcement on Monday" (PDF). Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 November 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  18. ^ "PM Chris Hipkins' Cabinet shake-up sees new Auckland Minister in Michael Wood, Ayesha Verrall takes on Health". nzherald.co.nz. 1 February 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "Ministerial List to take effect on 1 February 2023" (PDF). Beehive.govt.nz. 31 January 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Internal Affairs
2020–2023 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Women
2020–present 		Incumbent
Preceded by Minister of Education
2023–present
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