• The Overseas seat was a Cook Islands electoral division returning one member to the Cook Islands Parliament. It was abolished in 2003. The electorate was...
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    eczema. Williams was first elected to the Cook Islands Parliament as a Cook Islands Party candidate for the electorate of Aitutaki in the 1968 election. He...
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  • Following the Nouméa Accord, the electorate for local elections was restricted to pre-1998 residents of the islands and their descendants who have maintained...
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  • Fanaura Kingstone (category Members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands)
    was elected to the Cook Islands Parliament as a Cook Islands Party candidate in the Overseas electorate in the March 1983 Cook Islands general election...
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    Realm of New Zealand (category Government of the Cook Islands)
    states (the Cook Islands and Niue). The Realm of New Zealand encompasses the three autonomous jurisdictions of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue....
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    Nicholas (born 2 September 1971) is a Cook Islands politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Cook Islands Party. He is the son of former...
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    In 2011, Alfred Ngaro became the first MP of Cook Island descent by winning the Maungakiekie electorate. Further Pasifika MPs entered parliament in the...
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    The 12th Cook Islands Parliament was a term of the Parliament of the Cook Islands. Its composition was determined by the 1999 election, held on 16 June...
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    participating (e.g., in the United States Virgin Islands). The Falkland Islands is a British Overseas Territory with a population of 4,000 people and an...
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    General elections were held in the Cook Islands on 30 March 1983. The result was a victory for the Cook Islands Party (CIP) of Geoffrey Henry, who became...
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    subsequently established the Unity Party. As overseas voting was not possible, Cook Islanders had to return to the islands to vote. Special polling stations were...
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    Albert Henry (politician) (category Prime ministers of the Cook Islands)
    January 1981) was the first Premier of the Cook Islands and the founder and first leader of the Cook Islands Party (CIP). First elected Premier in August...
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    New Zealand (category Island countries)
    dollar"; it also circulates in the Cook Islands (see Cook Islands dollar), Niue, Tokelau, and the Pitcairn Islands. Historically, extractive industries...
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    Andrew Bayly (category New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates)
    election, Bayly's electorate of Hunua was disestablished. A new electorate, Port Waikato, comprising part of the old Hunua electorate and part of the old...
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    major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island. It is...
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    citizens changed the name to Marton to honour the birthplace of Captain James Cook in Middlesbrough, marking his landing in New Zealand exactly 100 years earlier...
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    of New Zealand, which includes the country of New Zealand itself, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency. All persons born within the...
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  • Gun law in New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Tokelau Chatham Islands Kermadec Islands Ross Dependency New Zealand Subantarctic Islands Abortion in New Zealand...
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    Māori electorates system, Canterbury is part of the large Te Tai Tonga electorate which covers the entire South Island, the surrounding islands and most...
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    Rakitamau. Margaret Cameron-Ash claims that James Cook established the insularity of Stewart Island during his first Pacific voyage in 1770 but decided...
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    parliamentary electorates. Dunedin and nearby towns are represented by the Dunedin electorate, held by Rachel Brooking, and the Taieri electorate, occupied...
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    General elections were held in the Cook Islands on 2 November 1983. The result was a victory for the Democratic Party, which won 13 of the 24 seats. A...
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  • election, Prime stood for the Piri Wiri Tua Movement in the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate, placing seventh. During the campaign he endorsed Ken Mair who was running...
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    held at James Cook University and Eddie Mabo made a speech to the audience where he explained the land inheritance system on Murray Island. The significance...
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    Cook Islands and Niue, and the dependent territory of Tokelau, have visa policies separate to that of New Zealand. All visitors to the Cook Islands,...
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    (eligible) Prime Minister who does not have a federal electorate named after him. The suburb of Cook, located within the Belconnen district of Canberra,...
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    the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April 1982...
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    Howe Island. Together with the neighbouring Phillip Island and Nepean Island, the three islands collectively form the Territory of Norfolk Island. At the...
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    Australia and then internationally. One of the artificial islands in Sylvania Waters (James Cook Island) was used in the filming of the movie Superman Returns...
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    roll, Marlborough is part of the Te Tai Tonga electorate, as is the entire South Island. The electorate was first contested in the 1996 general election...
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