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The Honourable
Nanaia Mahuta
MP
Mahuta in 2019
28th Minister for Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 November 2020
Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern
Preceded byWinston Peters
44th Minister for Māori Development
In office
26 October 2017 – 6 November 2020
Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern
Preceded byTe Ururoa Flavell
Succeeded byWillie Jackson
12th Minister of Local Government
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 October 2017
Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern
Preceded byAnne Tolley
In office
19 October 2005 – 24 November 2008
Prime MinisterHelen Clark
Preceded byChris Carter
Succeeded byRodney Hide
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Te Tai Hauāuru
In office
1999–2002
Preceded byTukuroirangi Morgan
Succeeded byTariana Turia
Majority6,233[1]
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Tainui
In office
2002–2008
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Majority3,430[1]
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hauraki-Waikato
Incumbent
Assumed office
2008
Preceded byNew constituency
Majority1,046[2]
Personal details
Born (1970-08-21) 21 August 1970 (age 54)
Auckland, New Zealand
Political partyLabour
Websitenanaiamahuta.org.nz

Nanaia Cybelle Mahuta[3] (born 21 August 1970) is a New Zealand politician who currently serves as the Minister for Māori Development and Minister for Local Government. She was previously a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand, serving then as Minister of Customs, Minister of Local Government, Minister of Youth Development, Associate Minister for the Environment, and Associate Minister of Tourism.[4] She has strong links to the Māori King Movement, being the daughter of Sir Robert Mahuta, who was the adopted son of King Korokī and the elder brother of Māori Queen Te Atairangikaahu. She has an MA (Hons) in social anthropology.[5] In 2016, she acquired a Māori facial tattoo and became the first female MP to wear one in the New Zealand parliament.[6] In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[7]

Biography

Early life

Mahuta was born in Auckland in 1970. She was educated at Kura Kaupapa Rakaumanga school in Huntly and later at Waikato Diocesan School for Girls as a boarder. She then studied at the University of Auckland for a diploma in Maori business development. She also worked at the university as a researcher/archivist.[8]

Member of Parliament

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
1996–1999 45th List 8 Labour
1999–2002 46th Te Tai Hauāuru 10 Labour
2002–2005 47th Tainui 19 Labour
2005–2008 48th Tainui none Labour
2008–2011 49th Hauraki-Waikato 10 Labour
2011–2014 50th Hauraki-Waikato 12 Labour
2014–2017 51st Hauraki-Waikato 6 Labour
2017–2020 52nd Hauraki-Waikato none Labour
2020–present 53rd Hauraki-Waikato 10 Labour

Mahuta was first elected to Parliament in the 1996 elections as a list MP, after unsuccessfully contesting the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate against New Zealand First's Tuku Morgan. In the 1999 election, she won Te Tai Hauauru and transferred to Tainui for the 2002 election. That seat was renamed Hauraki-Waikato ahead of the 2008 general election. She has held the seat since.

Foreshore and seabed controversy

In 2004, she joined Tariana Turia, another Labour MP, in voting against the first reading of her party's legislation on the controversial foreshore and seabed issue. She did not, however, join Turia when she quit Labour to found the Māori Party. In the bill's second reading, she again voted against her party, but in the third reading, she changed her position and supported it, saying that it was the politically pragmatic thing to do.[9] In her third reading speech, Mahuta stated that she would withdraw from the Labour Party list at the next election to seek a renewed mandate from her electorate.

Cabinet Minister: 2005–2008

In the 2005 general election Mahuta held her electorate seat of Tainui. Subsequently, Mahuta as part of the Labour-Progressive coalition government, was Minister of Customs, Youth Development, Local Government and Associate Environment. Mahuta lost her portfolios when Labour was defeated in the 2008 general election.

In opposition: 2008–2017

Following the defeat of the Labour government in the 2008 election, and Labour's successive losses in 2011 and 2014, Mahuta held various appointments as Labour Party spokesperson for Māori Affairs, Education, Energy and Conservation. She was also deputy chairperson of the Māori Affairs select committee in the 51st Parliament.[10]

In 2009 Mahuta's Resource Management (Enhancement of Iwi Management Plans) Amendment Bill, which proposed giving more weight to Māori in resource-management decisions, was drawn from the members' ballot.[11] The bill was defeated at its first reading in August.[11]

Mahuta stood for the Labour Party leadership in 2014. She was unsuccessful, and Andrew Little became the leader of the Labour Party.[12]

Cabinet Minister: 2017–present

Mahuta currently serves as a cabinet minister in the Sixth Labour Government with the portfolios for Local Government and Maori Development. She also served as associate ministers for the trade and export growth, the environment and housing portfolios. [13]

In September 2019, Mahuta delivered a tearful and emotional speech as Parliament officially apologised for a police raid in 1916 on Māori leader Rua Kenana's Iharaira faith's compound in Maungapohatu in the North Island's Bay of Plenty Region.[14]

During the 2020 general election, Mahuta retained her electorate seat of Hauraki-Waikato, defeating the Māori Party's Donna Pokere-Phillips by a margin of 7,551 votes based on preliminary results.[15]

She was announced as the next Minister of Foreign Affairs on 2 November[16] and will become the first woman to hold the role.

References

  1. ^ a b "Elections NZ 2005: Official Count Results — Tainui" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Hauraki-Waikato results 2008". 2008.electionresults.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 September 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "New Zealand Hansard – Members Sworn [Volume:651;Page:2]". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Ministerial List for Announcement on 31 October 2007". Beehive.govt.nz (Press release). New Zealand Government. 31 October 2007. Archived from the original (DOC) on 1 October 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin (2016). "'This is who I am', says first female MP to wear Māori facial tattoo in NZ parliament | World news". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  7. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2018: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  8. ^ Wharawhara, Reuben (30 October 1995). "Maori 'unknown' placed in ninth spot". The New Zealand Herald. p. 5.
  9. ^ "Parliamentary Debates, vol. 621". 16 November 2004. p. 17208. Retrieved 12 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Mahuta, Nanaia - New Zealand Parliament". New Zealand Parliament. Archived from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Resource Management (Enhancement of Iwi Management Plans) Amendment Bill". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Small, Vernon & Gulliver, Aimee (18 November 2014). "Andrew Little new Labour Party leader – by a whisker". Stuff. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Hon Nanaia Mahuta". Beehive.govt.nz. New Zealand Government. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020.
  14. ^ Small, Zane (13 September 2019). "Minister Nanaia Mahuta tears up in speech over historic 'wrongful arrest' of Rua Kēnana". Newshub. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  15. ^ "Hauraki-Waikato - Preliminary Count". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  16. ^ "Grant Robertson new Deputy Prime Minister as Jacinda Ardern reshapes Cabinet for new Government". Stuff. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauāuru
1999–2002 		Succeeded by
New constituency Member of Parliament for Tainui
2002–2008 		Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Hauraki-Waikato
2008–present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Customs
2005–2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Local Government
2005–2008

2017–present 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Incumbent
Preceded by Minister for Māori Development
2017–present
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