Sir Pita Russell Sharples KNZM CBE (born Peter Russell Sharples, 20 July 1941) is a New Zealand Māori academic and politician, who was a co-leader of...

minister, over the foreshore and seabed ownership controversy. She and Pita Sharples, a high-profile academic, became the first co-leaders. The party won...

Party co-leader Pita Sharples. Because Tamihere had chosen not to seek a list placing, his parliamentary career was terminated. Sharples remained the current...

the work and activism of remaining experts like Irirangi Tiakiawa, Pita Sharples, John Rangihau, Matiu Mareikura and Mita Mohi. In a modern context,...

American inventor and industrialist Pita Sharples (born 1941), Maori academic and politician Richard Sharples (1916–1973), British politician assassinated...

14 December 2009, Prime Minister John Key and Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples announced the flag would fly from the Auckland Harbour Bridge and other...

that night three more Māori Party candidates won parliamentary seats, Pita Sharples (co-leader) in Tāmaki Makaurau, Hone Harawira in Te Tai Tokerau and...

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Hauāuru, Labour won both seats off the retiring Māori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia. Of the 55 electorates where the incumbents sought...

in opinion polls running up to the election. Māori Party co-leader Pita Sharples expressed concern that only 55% of those on the Maori roll had voted...

2012. Retrieved 24 September 2011. ""Don't cry for me, Waititi" says Pita Sharples". Scoop. 25 January 2007. Archived from the original on 27 January 2007...

were shocked to hear of the news. Co-leader of the Māori Party Dr. Pita Sharples said: “I knew Taini from her work with cultural groups throughout Te...

heavily backed Labour in the party vote. Had Turia and her co-leader Pita Sharples opted to join a Labour-Progressive-Green coalition, Clark would have...

the party. In the 2005 election, Tamihere lost his electorate seat to Pita Sharples of the Māori Party and left Parliament. He had previously decided not...

supporters, such as Mana Motuhake leader Willie Jackson and Māori academic Pita Sharples, claimed that Māori who formerly supported Labour would flock to the...

denial about their racial identity." In contrast, Māori Party co-leader Pita Sharples said Harawira's comments probably reflected the views of many people...

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New Zealand. The working party consisted of Dr Katerina Mataira, Dr Pita Sharples, Dr Graham Smith, Dr Linda Smith, Dr Cathy Dewes, Tuki Nepe, Rahera...

player Pita Sharples (born 1941), New Zealand Māori academic and politician Pita Simogun (c. 1900 – 1987), Papua New Guinean politician Pita Gus Sowakula...

announcement by Pita Sharples, the then Minister of Māori Affairs, as the New Zealand government cautiously backtracked on Sharples' July announcement...

Kahungunu Incorporated was established in 1988, its first chairperson was Pita Sharples. By 1994 a rapid succession of other chairpeople had led the organisation...

2015 Some political leaders including the-then Māori Party co-leader Pita Sharples have called for gang patches to be made illegal. In 2009 the Wanganui...

show aired, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples met several trust board members at Parliament to discuss the allegations...

Waitakere and North Shore Cities. In addition, Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples spoke against the exclusion of the Māori seats, as recommended by the...

National 20 December 2016 26 October 2017 Minister for Māori Development Pita Sharples Māori Party 19 November 2008 8 October 2014 Te Ururoa Flavell Māori...

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2008 Prime Minister Helen Clark Preceded by Dover Samuels Succeeded by Pita Sharples Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti In office 27...

Māori deprived of their rights. She shared the party leadership with Pita Sharples, a Māori academic. The Māori Party hoped to win all seven Māori electorates...

year, two major figures involved with Hoani Waititi Marae, Aroha Sharples and Pita Sharples, saddened at hearing that children who attended kōhanga reo (language...

portfolios outside Cabinet, and the Māori Party's Tāriana Turia and Pita Sharples the same. United Future leader Peter Dunne retained his ministerial...