Matiu Waitai Rata (26 March 1934 – 25 July 1997) was a Māori politician who was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for the Labour Party from 1963...

Given names Rata Harrison (1935–2013), New Zealand rugby league player Rata Lovell-Smith (1894–1969), New Zealand artist Surname Matiu Rata (1934–1997)...

Matiu Rata, a former Labour Party member of parliament who had served as Minister of Māori Affairs in the third Labour government (1972–1975). Rata had...

Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "the lagoon" for Te Hāpua. Matiu Rata, Cabinet Minister in the Third Labour Government in the 1970s and founder...

incumbent Richard Prebble. Upon the retirement of Mana Motuhake founder Matiu Rata in 1994, Lee became Mana Motuhake's political leader. In November 1994...

Matiu / Somes Island is the largest of three islands in the northern half of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. The island is 24.9 hectares (62 acres) in...

in 1943, and was replaced by his son Tapihana Paraire Paikea. In 1979, Matiu Rata resigned from the Labour Party as a protest against Labour policies. In...

to be a copy of this. Matiu Rata also emphasised the social implications of this alternative land settlement scheme. For Rata, the scheme had a strong...

April by the resignation of Matiu Rata, a former member of the Labour Party who was establishing a new group, Mana Motuhake. Rata believed that contesting...

Party. Matiu Rata, a Labour cabinet minister, resigned from his party in 1979 due to disagreements with its policy towards Māori. In 1980, Rata quit parliament...

initially in 1975 powerless to investigate these. On 8 November 1974, Matiu Rata introduced the Treaty of Waitangi Bill in Parliament and stated: Its purpose...

"self-government", was founded in 1979 as an independent Māori party by Labour MP Matiu Rata. Rata resigned from Parliament to contest a by-election under Mana Motuhake's...

Rātana won the seat in a by-election caused by the death of her husband Matiu in 1949. Currently Māori elections are held as part of New Zealand general...

removing Matiu Rata, the party's experienced and well-regarded Māori Affairs spokesman, from the Opposition front bench. Earlier, Rowling had replaced Rata with...

administrator (1968–1971) Duncan MacIntyre, administrator (1971–1972) Matiu Rata, administrator (1972–1973) Gray Thorp, administrator (1973–1975) Frank...

Rights to the Prime Minister Bill Rowling and Māori Affairs Minister Matiu Rata. The Waitangi Tribunal is established. Second TV channel starts broadcasting...

The 25 year settlement process began in 1987, under the leadership of Matiu Rata, and iwi members had mixed feelings about the settlement. Ngāti Kuri members...

held the same day as the Otahuhu by-election. The by-election was won by Matiu Rata, also of the Labour Party. The by-election was contested by nine candidates...

Tapihana Paraire Paikea, Haami Tokouru Rātana, Matiu Rātana, Iriaka Rātana, Koro Wētere, Paraone Reweti, Matiu Rata, and Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan. Mita Ririnui...

without actually holding office. After Carroll and Ngata, it was not until Matiu Rata (1972–1975) that there was another ethnically Māori Minister of Māori...

Peter Tapsell 11,230 Barry Kiwara Northern Maori Bruce Gregory 7,688 Matiu Rata Southern Maori Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan 10,495 Amster Reedy Western Maori...

vote of 45.6%. In February 1992, the former Minister of Māori Affairs, Matiu Rata, called for a flag change "to re-establish our national identity". In...

Mervyn Probine Allan Pyatt Derek Quigley Peter Quilliam Athol Rafter Matiu Rata Paul Reeves Bill Renwick Aroha Reriti-Crofts Paraone Reweti Winston Reynolds...

concessions to increasingly angry Māori protest, as was the appointment of Matiu Rata to Minister of Māori Affairs (and initially Lands). He was the first Māori...

undergoing a name change. In 1971 the Labour shadow minister of Māori Affairs, Matiu Rata, introduced a private member's bill to make Waitangi Day a national holiday...

concessions to increasingly angry Māori protest, as was the appointment of Matiu Rata to Minister of Māori Affairs (and initially Lands). He was the first Māori...

Marae. Politician Matiu Rata said of McEwen: If every area had a Jock McEwen, what a great country New Zealand would be. (Matiu Rata) Benton, Richard (2010)...

the second National Government. Labour's Māori Affairs spokesperson, Matiu Rata, had introduced a New Zealand Day Bill in 1971 but this was not passed...

$170 million. This settlement was undertaken under the leadership of the Hon. Matiu Rata and Dr. George Habib. The first major settlement of historical confiscation...

she became leader of Mana Motuhake upon the retirement of party founder Matiu Rata. Questions were also raised over revelations of her personal life which...