Te Ururoa Flavell

Te Ururoa Flavell (2012)

Te Ururoa James William Ben Flavell (born December 7, 1955 in Tokoroa , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand politician of the Māori Party and was one of its co-chairs from July 30, 2013 to September 23, 2017.

Life

Te Ururoa Flavell was born in Tokoroa on December 7, 1955 to the married couple Miria Leonard and James Benjamin Flavell . His father, who died when Te Ururoa was a new year old, ran a billiards saloon there. Flavell spent the first seven years in his place of birth. Then the family moved to Rotorua . Flavell received his education at the Ngongotaha Primary School in Rotorua and from 1969 at the St Stephen's School in Auckland . In 1974 he went to Auckland Secondary Teachers' College and graduated there after three years with a teaching diploma . In Kaikōura he worked at Kaikōura High School as a physical education teacher and then began studying at the University of Auckland , which he finished in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then worked briefly in 1983 in Hamilton at Fairfield College and graduated from the University of Waikato in 1984 with a Master of Arts .

Further activities as a teacher and director of schools followed in Taupo , New Plymouth , Auckland and Whakatāne . In 2001 he founded his own company, Te Matakahi Ltd , a consulting firm.

politics

Flavell was also involved in the political dispute on the subject of Foreshore and Seabed and was active in the protest movement, which eventually made him a founding member of the Māori Party , founded in 2004 . A year later, in September 2005, Flavell won the Māori constituency of Waiariki , which he held until September 2017 and then lost to a candidate from the New Zealand Labor Party .

During his tenure in the New Zealand Parliament , Flavell was Minister for Māori Development , Minister for Whānau Ora (Family Health ) and Associate Minister for Economic Development from October 2014 to October 2017 . He was also a member of numerous parliamentary committees and from July 2013 to September 2017 he co-chaired his party.

After the Māori Party lost all parliamentary seats in September 2017, Flavell retired from the party chairmanship and left politics in July 2018. He then took on the role of CEO of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa , a New Zealand educational institution for Māori .

family

Flavell lives in Rotorua with his wife Erana Hond . The marriage had five children.

Web links

Commons : Te Ururoa Flavell  - Collection of Images

• Selwyn Katene, Rāhui Katene : Point of Order, Mr Speaker? . Modern Māori Political Leaders . Huia Publishers , Wellington 2017, ISBN 978-1-77550-332-3 , Influence with Integrity - Te Ururoa Flavell (English, Maori).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Katene : Point of Order, Mr Speaker? . 2017, Influence with Integrity - Te Ururoa Flavell .
2. ↑ Waiariki . New Zealand Parliament , December 2017, accessed July 6, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Hon Te Ururoa Flavell . New Zealand Parliament , October 25, 2017, accessed July 6, 2020 .  
4. ↑ Te Aniwa Hurihanganui : Former Māori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell has resigned as co-leader . Radio New Zealand , July 19, 2018, accessed July 6, 2020 .