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    Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan ONZ (9 January 1932 – 20 July 2011) was a New Zealand politician. She was an MP from 1967 to 1996, representing...
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    Tirikatene affiliates to the Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Hine iwi. He is the grandson of Sir Eruera Tirikatene and the nephew of Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan. His...
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  • 1970s Whetu Taewa (born 1970), New Zealand former rugby league footballer Whetu Douglas (born 1991), New Zealand rugby union player Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan...
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    daughter Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan succeeded to the seat, also in a by-election. After education at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Tirikatene worked on...
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    Island—initially Te Puku O Te Whenua, and since 1999 Ikaroa-Rāwhiti. Whetū Tirikatene-Sullivan had served as Southern Maori's representative in Parliament since...
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  • longest serving female MP, 30 years between 1984–90 and 1993–2017. Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan was New Zealand's longest serving female Maori MP, 29 years between...
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    Pāti Māori, and New Zealand First. Labour Member of Parliament Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan was the longest-serving female MP (1967–1996) and was also the...
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  • following the Labour-Ratana pact. When he died in 1967 his daughter Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan took over the seat in a 1967 by-election. In 1993 the National...
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    23 June 2022. The film was directed by James Napier Robertson and Paula Whetu Jones. Cooper was portrayed by Miriama McDowell and Rena Owen, with the...
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  • New Zealand Parliament including Labour MPs Mary Batchelor and Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, and National MPs George Gair and Marilyn Waring. The first abortion...
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