Nanaia Mahuta

The Honourable
Nanaia Mahuta
MP
44th Minister for Māori Development
Assumed office
26 October 2017
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Preceded by Te Ururoa Flavell
Minister for Local Government
Assumed office
26 October 2017
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Preceded by Anne Tolley
In office
2005–2008
Prime Minister Helen Clark
Preceded by Chris Carter
Succeeded by Rodney Hide
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Te Tai Hauāuru
In office
1999–2002
Preceded by Tukuroirangi Morgan
Succeeded by Tariana Turia
Majority 6,233[1]
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Tainui
In office
2002–2008
Preceded by New constituency
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Majority 3,430[1]
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hauraki-Waikato
Assumed office
2008
Preceded by New constituency
Majority 1,046[2]
Personal details
Born (1970-08-21) 21 August 1970
New Zealand
Political party Labour
Website nanaiamahuta.org.nz

Nanaia Cybelle Mahuta[3] (born 21 August 1970) is a New Zealand politician who is currently serving 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]

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–present 52nd Hauraki-Waikato none Labour

Mahuta was first elected to Parliament in the 1996 elections, when she became a list MP. In the 1999 elections, she won the Te Tai Hauauru electorate, and in the 2002 elections, she won Tainui. Before the 2008 general election the electorate boundaries were changed and it was renamed Hauraki-Waikato. She held the seat with a majority of 888.[2]

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 while it had "serious flaws, ... at the end of the day, it was the right thing to do".

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 and Associate Environment and Local Government. Mahuta lost her portfolios when Labour were defeated in the 2008 general election.

In opposition: 2008 - 2017

Following the defeat of the Labour government in the 2008 election, Phil Goff appointed Mahuta as spokesperson for Maori Social Development.[7]

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.[8] The bill was defeated at its first reading in August.[8]

On 15 June 2010, Opposition Leader Phil Goff appointed Mahuta as Portfolio Spokesperson for Energy and as Associate Portfolio Spokesperson for Law and Order. (Shane Jones had previously held the energy portfolio). At the same time, in addition to the portfolio appointments, both Mahuta and Charles Chauvel moved to the parliamentary opposition front bench.

On 14 October 2014 Mahuta became a candidate in the 2014 Labour Party leadership election. She was unsuccessful, and Andrew Little became the leader of the Labour Party.[9]

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.

References

  1. 1 2 "Elections NZ 2005: Official Count Results — Tainui" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Hauraki-Waikato results 2008". 2008.electionresults.govt.nz. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  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.
  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. ↑ "Goff announces changes to shadow Cabinet and portfolio allocations". New Zealand Labour Party. 5 May 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
  8. 1 2 "Resource Management (Enhancement of Iwi Management Plans) Amendment Bill". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
  9. ↑ Small, Vernon & Gulliver, Aimee (18 November 2014). "Andrew Little new Labour Party leader – by a whisker". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Tuku Morgan		 Member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauāuru
1999–2002		 Succeeded by
Tariana Turia
New constituency Member of Parliament for Tainui
2002–2008		 Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Hauraki-Waikato
2008–present		 Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Chris Carter		 Minister of Local Government
2005–2008
2017–present		 Succeeded by
Rodney Hide
Preceded by
Anne Tolley		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Te Ururoa Flavell		 Minister for Māori Development
2017–present
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