Nanaia Mahuta
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The Honourable Nanaia Mahuta MP |
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| Minister for Local Government | |
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In office 2005–2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Helen Clark |
| Preceded by | Chris Carter |
| Succeeded by | Rodney Hide |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Te Tai Hauāuru |
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In office 1999–2002 |
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| Preceded by | Tukuroirangi Morgan |
| Succeeded by | Tariana Turia |
| Majority | 6,233 |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Tainui |
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In office 2002–2008 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Majority | 3,430 |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Hauraki-Waikato |
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Assumed office 2008 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Majority | 1,046 |
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| Political party | Labour |
| Website | nanaiamahuta |
Nanaia Cybelle Mahuta (born 21 August 1970) is a New Zealand politician who was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. She was Minister of Customs, Minister of Local Government, Minister of Youth Development, Associate Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister of Tourism. 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. In 2016 she acquired a Māori facial tattoo and became the first female MP to wear one in the New Zealand parliament.
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.
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".
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