Tariana Turia
New Zealand politician (1944-2025) · New Zealand · Politicians · Died at 80
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Something wrong?Dame Tariana Turia was a New Zealand Māori rights activist and politician. She was first elected to Parliament in 1996 as a representative of the Labour Party. She won the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate in 2002 and broke from Labour in 2004, resigning from Parliament during the foreshore and seabed controversy.
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Turia in 2001
Turia with Pita Sharples at the Māori Party launch event, 2005
Turia speaking in 2011
Turia and Harete Hipango (right) in 2018
Turia, after her investiture as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Patsy Reddy (right), at Pūtiki Marae on 13 August 2018Awards
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Dame Tariana Turia was a New Zealand Māori rights activist and politician. She was first elected to Parliament in 1996 as a representative of the Labour Party. She won the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate in 2002 and broke from Labour in 2004, resigning from Parliament during the foreshore and seabed controversy. Turia returned to Parliament in the resulting by-election as the first representative of the newly formed Māori Party, which she led for the next decade.
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