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...
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Given names Rata Harrison (1935–2013), New Zealand rugby league player Rata Lovell-Smith (1894–1969), New Zealand artist Surname Matiu Rata (1934–1997)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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incumbent Richard Prebble. Upon the retirement of Mana Motuhake founder Matiu Rata in 1994, Lee became Mana Motuhake's political leader. In November 1994...
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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...
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Rights to the Prime Minister Bill Rowling and Māori Affairs Minister Matiu Rata. The Waitangi Tribunal is established. Second TV channel starts broadcasting...
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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)...
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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...
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administrator (1968–1971) Duncan MacIntyre, administrator (1971–1972) Matiu Rata, administrator (1972–1973) Gray Thorp, administrator (1973–1975) Frank...
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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...
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Tapihana Paraire Paikea, Haami Tokouru Rātana, Matiu Rātana, Iriaka Rātana, Koro Wētere, Paraone Reweti, Matiu Rata, and Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan. Mita Ririnui...
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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...
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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...
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to provide a legal process for the investigation of those grievances. Matiu Rata, a Minister of Māori Affairs in the early 1970s, took a leading role in...
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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...
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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...
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removing Matiu Rata, the party's experienced and well-regarded Māori Affairs spokesman, from the Opposition front bench. Earlier, Rowling had replaced Rata with...
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1969 all Native schools had been "absorbed or closed".: p.19 Politician Matiu Rata said he was surprised how smoothly the transition had happened without...
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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...
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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...
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Mervyn Probine Allan Pyatt Derek Quigley Peter Quilliam Athol Rafter Matiu Rata Paul Reeves Bill Renwick Aroha Reriti-Crofts Paraone Reweti Winston Reynolds...
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$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...
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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...
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